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Kuter's replacement at the Air Force's Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
...Writer Emmett Watson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (circ. 196.955) had trouble built into his weekly column. While it read like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve...
Last week as the case neared trial, crew-cut Emmett Watson. 40, made himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would...
...Want to Win." "He's not the most modest coach who ever came down the pike," says West Virginia's Fred Schaus of Rupp, "but he's the greatest." Says Tennessee's Coach Emmett Lowery...
...white voters outnumber Negro voters 2-1. Assigned to gather evidence on complaints that the county board of registrars discriminated against Negroes in registering voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson, who will be elected Governor in November. On Patterson's advice to "show them nothing," Livingston flatly refused to open his books...