Man Overboard

Columnist Drew Pearson had an inside tip on U.S. unpreparedness for readers of his "Washington Merry-Go-Round." Wrote he: although the ist Cavalry Division was "supposed to be one of the crack combat outfits of the Regular Army," its commander, Major General Hobart Gay, had suffered a heart attack and could not pass a physical examination. Because of

Gay's condition, wrote Pearson, "Japan was picked for him as a soft berth." The facts: after a thorough physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital, General Gay had been certified fit for full duty. On the same day that Pearson's column appeared, the newspapers blared across their front pages the news that Gay had led his division in an amphibious landing at Pohang, Korea (see WAR IN ASIA).

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