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...Crommelin pocketed a sheaf of papers, and went downtown to get in touch with the three wire services (the A.P. man said they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
Nimitz also published the names of three of McCain's task group commanders: pianoplaying, fight-loving Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan; lean, relaxed Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford; and serious, solid Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, recently graduated from jeep carriers to the big sisters...
...Louise Bogan, Manhattan poet-critic (for the New Yorker), moved into the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (term : one year; duties: comfortably vague), succeeding Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider...
...with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly. Said Avocet's Chief Boatswain Bogan: "Bits of wood and paper covered the sea. . . . They seemed to be fragments from the interior of the plane. All the pieces were from one to six inches square. We found nothing larger than that...
...educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose his assistant, William Harding Johnson...