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...thousands of uniformed men striding through the halls of the Pentagon next week will be a tall, balding young Army major reporting for an assignment that promises a significant step upward in his career. The officer: Major John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower,* 35, who is the only child of the 34th President of the U.S. His new assignment: duty on the secrecy-shrouded Joint War Plans Division, in the office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations. Says one knowing old Pentagonian: "It's a training ground for people tabbed for bigger things...
...finals Frenchy Hebert and Dow Finsterwald matched stroke for stroke. Striding up to the 34th tee Hebert led by a single hole. Then Finsterwald cracked. By the time he had retrieved a shot from a ditch under a bridge, he was down two, with only two to play. Calmly Young-Timer Hebert matched his opponent's par three on the 35th hole and, winner 2 and 1, walked off with top prize money of $8,000. It was nearly three times as much as he had won all year...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 28--Yale's powerful swimming team received a slight jolt in the first event of the 34th NCAA Championships here last night. Michigan's Fritz Myers pulled even with the Elis' Ray Ellison at the three-quarters mark in the 1500-meter freestyle, then stroked on to upset the Eastern champion in 19:04.8. This ties the Tar Heel Pool record set in 1949 by N. Heusner of North-western...
...Stanford and Illinois), scored the upset of the week with a slim but well-earned 7-6 victory. Oklahoma, which had not been scored on in eight regular season games, was momentarily startled when Kansas matched its first-period touchdown, later turned on its explosive power to win its 34th straight game by a score...
Defend America? One hot morning just 180 years ago, Britain's General Sir William Howe, having taken Brooklyn with "the largest expeditionary force Great Britain had ever assembled" (32,000 men, 200 ships), sent his redcoats across the East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted...