GENERAL EISENHOWER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 26 November 1942, Page 3

GENERAL EISENHOWER

Now that Lieutenant-General Dwight D. Eisenhower, of the United States Army in Africa, is more to us than one of those quaint American names, details of the man from a recent “New Yorker” make good reading. No one, bar his 81-year-old mother, who has four other sons besides the lieutenant-general, calls him anything else but “Ike,” a nickname bestowed in boyhood by friends of his home town, Abilene, Kansas. His wife, who supplies this and other gossipy bits of her very-much-in-the-public-eye husband, says she is still fascinated by his brilliant conversation after 26 years, that he likes to know everything, and that his own perfect teeth have only two pinpoint fillings. He is 51, has a passion for Oriental rugs, fried egg sandwiches, the study of strategy and tactics, tanks, golf, bridge, poker, trout-fishing, and flying, the latter being a recent interest, as he took it up only four years ago, and got a pilot’s licence. He is a handsome, friendly, determined man, with a broad smile, broad shoulders, and a long waist. He is an early riser and his family came from Switzerland in 1732. He is a West Point graduate, and his son John, now in his second year at the famous United States military establishment, is called “Eisy” by his classmates.”