Army & Navy: New Under Secretary

A Brigadier General in the reserves who had found the Army "a little hard to take at first" last week found himself in one of the Army's biggest jobs: Under Secretary of War. The one-star Under Secretary, who will soon be out of uniform: placid, moose-tall (6 ft. 5, 240 Ibs.) Kenneth Claiborne Royall.

Better known in North Carolina than he was in Washington, General Royall left a $50,000 law practice in Goldsboro, N.C. in June 1942, to take a colonelcy and an assignment as chief of the Army Service Forces' Legal Section. Appointed by the President, he served as counsel...

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