President Eisenhower reached under a bushel last week for a new supreme commander of U.S. and U.N. forces in the Far East. To replace General Mark Clark, who is retiring from the Army on Oct. 30, he selected able but little-known four-star General John Edwin Hull, 58.
For Ed Hull, the U.N. command meant an end to years of tough but unglamorous duty at the Pentagon. A graduate of Ohio's Miami University, he started with an infantry commission in 1917, saw combat service in World War I (Silver Star for gallantry), then buckled down to a sucession of staff and training jobs....
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