New G-4

In the greatest peacetime Army expansion in U. S. history, the General Staff is as busy as beavers in a springtime flood. To lighten the work of Deputy Chief of Staff William Bryden, Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall fortnight ago appointed a second deputy: scholarly, friendly Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore of the Engineers. Last week General Marshall appointed another Engineer officer to take Dick Moore's place as head of the G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff. Chosen to run the section which oversees most of the household details of Army life, from buying soldiers' underwear to building barracks, was tall, golfing Colonel Eugene Reybold, after 13 years spent doing rivers and harbors work for the Army.

True to a custom in Washington (a supposed sop to pacifistic civilian taxpayers), Gene Reybold sat down at his desk in shirt sleeves and mufti, a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles camouflaging his military nose. Like most Army men out of uniform, he managed to look more like a country doctor than like the top-flight soldier he is.

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