Army & Navy - MANPOWER: Captains of Industry

The Army got set this week to teach American businessmen a thing or two. At month's end 100 hand-picked top business executives will report to the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. for a tough, 30-day "orientation" course. Stated object: to teach businessmen about the Army and vice versa. Collateral object: to let the Army look over businessmen whose talents it can use, in uniform.

Some of the businessmen who will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant...

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