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Three Ribbons. At midweek Ike had finished his report. He bundled his wife Mamie and his mother-in-law Mrs. Doud (who had joined him at West Point) into his Constellation and flew to Washington in muck and driving sleet,* landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House...
Born. To Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, A.U.S., 25, son of the president-elect of Columbia University, and Barbara Jean Thompson Eisenhower, 21: their first child (and Ike's first grandchild -see PEOPLE), a son; at West Point, N.Y. Name: Dwight David II. Weight...
Married. Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 24, only son of the U.S. Army's chief of staff; and Barbara Jean Thompson, 20, a colonel's daughter; both for the first time; at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk...
...training methods are both humorless and tireless. Major Harold Doud, who served six months in 1934-35 as an observer with the 7th Infantry Regiment at Kanazawa, found the life exhausting and looked forward to the regiment's first holiday. When it came, he found that the regiment did not let the holiday interfere with the regular day's work. Reveille was at 3 a.m., and before the usual breakfast time the men had worshipped dead Japanese in three separate ceremonies, dueled with bayonets, eaten some dried flounder, shouted "Banzai!" and marched up & down a mountain. Then they...
...went to West Point. There he got good marks in hydraulics, history and steam heat, broke his leg playing football, became a gymnast and performed giant swings. Then he went to Texas to join the 19th Infantry, met and married a Denver girl named Mamie Doud...