Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulling itself together, the four-officer court-martial amiably socked friendly Airman Wheeler with a $200 pay loss, a one-stripe demotion and four months in the stockade...
...good boy," wrote a mother to her son, "and get a haircut." It was too late. Airman Third Class Donald Wheeler, 20, stationed near Tokyo, did not "want to walk down the street looking like a shaved jackass," so he was court-martialed...
...knew, the ceremonial Honor Guard, to which Wheeler belonged, was the very model of modern spit and polish: 70 frozen-faced six-footers, strictly disciplined, heads closely cropped, attended by twelve pants-pressers, twelve shoeshine boys, two full-time tailors, and bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"-a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache...
During the 30-hour court-martial, the prosecution prosecuted relentlessly. Declared Lieut. William Pridgen: "American soldiers did not challenge an order at Bataan or in France; they did not disobey orders at Pearl Harbor or Valley Forge . . ." Airman Wheeler was convicted. His civilian defense attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Murray Sprung, sprang to his feet, pleaded for leniency: "Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat/ Or hurl the cynic's ban?/ Let me live in my house by the side of the road/ And be a friend to man." Appealed Attorney Sprung, his voice hoarse with emotion...
Kiss & Dismay. At week's end Mary Leona went back to Baltimore. Gene gave her a dignified kiss and took her to a press conference. There, in response to a newsman's question, Mary admitted that she had been married once before-at 14, to another airman-but that the marriage was annulled after one day. Said she: "I'm through telling lies. Believe you me, it wasn't worth...