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| | TIME.com: "WELL, I'M HOOKED" -- Feb. 8, 1954 -- Page 1 |
 | | Father Clarence Twining was a well-to-do banker, Uncle Nathan Twining a rear admiral and (in World War I) chief of staff to Admiral William S. Sims (but Uncle La Verne Twining, a Los Angeles mathematics teacher, built his own airplane in 1908, launched it from a barn roof, crashed and broke a leg). |
 | | General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps. |
 | | In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief of Staff. |
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