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Died. Andrew Jackson IV, 66, great-grandson of the 7th President of the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Born in the Hermitage, near Nashville, Jackson took turns at soldiering (World War I), high-school teaching, farming, wound up as a Hollywood character actor, played a U.S. Senator in The President's Lady (TIME...
Corporal Wendell H. Treffery of Terryville, Conn., a medic of the 7th Division, got it Nov. 30, 1950 south of Changjin Reservoir-first a wound in the chest, then the onrush of screaming Chinese...
Your April 6 Pacific Edition contains a statement to the effect that Major General Arthur Trudeau, division commander of the 7th Infantry Division, was publicly rebuked by me in connection with the recent action on Old Baldy. Such a statement, I feel, casts unjust and unwarranted criticism on General Trudeau and the men of his division. He and his division have records of distinction...
...Sitting Bull, last great leader of the Sioux tribes. It was Sitting Bull, driven to recklessness by the perfidy of the U.S. Government, who cried, "Let us have one big fight with the soldiers," and assembled the awesome army that wiped out General George Custer and soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. But 14 years later, conquered by the forces of the Great White Father, Sitting Bull was old, fat and quiet. One frosty morning in 1890, a detachment of Indian police galloped up to his cabin on the Sioux reservation...
...Korea, when a man gets 40 rotation points he can go home. Last week, when a balding, freckled infantry captain named John R. Fitzpatrick reluctantly said goodbye to his company and regiment, the astounded clerk who checked him out of the 7th Division's rotation center noted that Fitzpatrick's card listed 99 points. He actually had more points than that: the I.B.M. machine was preset for only two digits. Captain Fitzpatrick, 29, was headed home with the highest total of rotation points-129-ever amassed by any U.S. soldier in Korea...