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To this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world...
Harry Truman, ex-artilleryman and now Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, flew down a day later to inspect the 3rd Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. (where he fired a 105-mm. howitzer battery). Then he went on to watch Air Force bombing and rocket firing...
FREDERIC B. RICHARDSON Fort Benning, Ga.
He was born (1892) in Coytesville, N J., of Dutch stock. When he was a baby, his family moved to Florida, where his father was a pioneer railroad promoter and financier. He had a healthy, uneventful outdoor childhood, played football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly...
To a mountain-minded man like William D. Hackett, Aconcagua, the 22,835-ft. peak which straddles the Argentine-Chilean border, was an irresistible challenge. Hackett had started climbing at twelve in the Olympic Range near Bremerton, Wash., had served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut...