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...Force Reserve 2nd Lieutenants ordered to active service will be offered an opportunity to volunteer for flying training and for training in civilian institutions in the fields of meteorology, languages, and physical sciences. Air Force training at advanced Air Force technical schools and at the United States Air Force Institute of Technology will also be offered...
Charles E. Clark, 2nd federal circuit judge in New Haven, and Harold P. Williams '03, justice of the Massachusetts supreme judicial court, will join Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas as judges of the final argument of the Ames Competition this year. The final argument, which will be heard on March 17, will concern the conflict between Constitutional and International...
Platoon, Half! In Detroit, Corporal William J. Thompson sued 2nd Lieut. Ruth E. Thompson for divorce, charged: "She throws her rank around...
...Career: 2nd lieutenant Field Artillery, in World War I. While in private law practice, served a term in the Maryland legislature. Foreign Service officer, 1925-27. Spent next dozen years running his 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, sitting on a score of corporation boards, serving in Virginia legislature. During World War II, Bruce directed OSS operations in Europe. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947. In 1948, he became chief of the EGA mission to France. Since April 1949, Bruce has been U.S. Ambassador to France...
...when his platoon was trapped on an exposed hillside. Severely wounded, his carbine ripped from his hands by a machine-gun burst, he had charged the enemy alone, hurling grenades until he fell. His avenging platoon swept over the enemy with fixed bayonets. Jerome, 21, 2nd Infantry Division, was killed twelve days later as he rallied his men in the face of murderous Communist fire. In due time, the Army announced that Jerome had been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry, his older brother, Robert, the Congressional Medal of Honor...