Sublime

Malcolm Cowley assisted me in three important ways: His New Yorker profile of Perkins, “Unshaken Friend,” published in 1944, was the most comprehensive account of Perkins’s life to date.

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Marshall offered encouraging words: “With your literary ability, your general military knowledge and your comprehensive knowledge of affairs in France, coupled with your ability to reduce things to simplicities, you are better prepared to write such a book than anyone else I know in the Army.”

The president heeded their advice. On September 1, 1939—the day Germany invaded Poland to trigger World War II in Europe—George Marshall became the Army’s chief of staff. Marshall’s appointment reflected the president’s selection of yet another general in the mold of Fox Conner lead the Army.

The willingness of PARC’s leadership to battle the home office inspired enormous loyalty among members of the group. In putting himself on the line, Pake played the crucial role that General Groves had served in the Manhattan Project and that Kelly Johnson played at the Skunk Works.

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He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions