DINNER SET FOR THURSDAY AT BOLLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200260051-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: February 21, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BY ELIZABETH SH4LTON
HE first name's 'Truman;
last- name ,Landon, but
the %middle lninal H. Is
not for Hoover: Maj. Gen.
(Lt..Gen.-designatO'Landon; the
new air feice-inspeator general,
claims for a middle. name, Hem-
pel. .
, He takes office suceeding Lt.
Oen. Bryant Boatner. in a pyra-
midal shift that sends BollinWs
popular Lt. Gen. and Mrs.?Orval
Cook up and over .to Europe..
Gen. 'Cook, promoted to four-
star rank, will be right-hand Man
to the Commander In chief of
'United States, forces . in Europe,
Gen.- Alfred E. Gruenther. Mrs.
Cook plans to join her husband
abroad In March. He succeeds
Gen. Thomas T. Handy, whose
retirement on March '31 Is now
being planned. . ?
Also ?nominated for a fourth
star is ? Lt. .Gen. Earle E. Par-
tridge, who with Mrs. Partridge
is enjoying the farewell salute
of 'Fort Myer neighbors. and air
force colleagues before going to
Tokyo to Command the far east,
air force. I
ON Thursday, tha new four-,
star generals and their wives
will be among 50 guests at the
second informal dinner ? in a
series given by the deputy di-
ctor of the centtal'intelligence
CabelLanCWS:Withell hi' their
oiling quarters...
30 TO:rn7fete,-. for-Which
Mexican menu and decor are
being planned by the vivacious
hostess, will honor Air Force Sec-
etary and Mr k Talbott' and Air
orce Chief of Staff and Mrs.
rw1nIng. , ? '
el i cacie s with ? the Cooks,- Par-
Sharing -south of ithe border
kridges and' Boatners and the
honor guests will be Lt. Gen.
'Thomas D. White, air, force
vice chief of staff, and Mrs.
White, and former Assistant Air
Force Secretary and Mrs. Harold
B. Stuart.
Mrs. Cook's mother, Mrs: Pey-
ton, J. Edwards, and Mrs. Harry
0: Armstrong; wife of the air
force surgeon general; will -at,
tend, as will Lt.-Gen. Ira Eaker,
(ret.), and Mrs. .Eaker,
whct will be in town for several
days. " '
Others on thatst of invitees
are Air Force Lt. Generals L. C.
Craigie, Frank F. Everest,
Charles B. Stone, Emmett OPOn-
nell jrt, Idwal, Edwards (ret.);
Maj. Generals Robert W. Burns,
E. W. Anderson,' Emery S. Wet,
e1 William D. Eckert, Morris
J. Lee, Manuel J. Asensio, John
McCormick and Roger M. Ramey
. . .
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/20
CIA-RDP68-00046R000200260051-4