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...winter of 1951, Mary Downey waved goodbye to her eldest son John at a small Connecticut train station. She had only a vague notion of the job he was going to take in Japan -it had something to do with the Korean War. "A shudder went through me then," she recalled, "and I have always felt it to be a premonition of the horrible thing that was to happen to Jack...
...year later, she was informed that he was missing on a flight from Japan to Korea. In 1953, she received his death certificate from the Defense Department. The following year, Jack Downey appeared on trial in China as the "archcriminal of all U.S. prisoners." He was sentenced to life imprisonment. After many pleas, Mary Downey was permitted to visit her son five times. Now 75, she suffered a severe stroke earlier this month. President Nixon appealed directly to Premier Chou En lai, and Downey was released last week...
...China after straying across the border on bombing raids in North Viet Nam. They are Major Philip Smith of Roodhouse, III., a prisoner since 1965, and Lieut. Commander Robert Flynn of Houston, Minn., who was captured in 1967. The Chinese agreed to review the life sentence of John T. Downey, an acknowledged CIA agent who has been in a Chinese prison for 21 years. His release is expected late this year...
GREASER'S PALACE. Perfervid madness by Robert Downey, an unlikely but hilarious combination of the old West and the New Testament...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced its officers for 1973. They are James M. Downey '74, of Adams House and Joliet, Ill., president; Lawrence J. Siskind '74, of Lowell House and Marblehead, Ibis; Christopher L. Kyllonen '74, of Quincy House and Hanover, N.H., Narthex; Thomas R. Feran '75, of Kirkland House and Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Sanctum...