Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammond was the only freshman to lose a match to the Exeter team. Freshman Captain Ben Heckscher and Calvin Place both won their matches in straight sets. Murphy and Ostheimer each won 3-2 victories...
...Beckscher, Grayson Murphy, and Calvin Place led the freshman B team to victory over the Harvard Club, 3 to 2, there, yesterday. Jim Hammond and Tony Ostheimer lost their sets 3-1. Yesterday afternoon the freshmen D team defeated the Brooks School squad 3 to 2 here. Bob Gerry, Hank Holmes, and Dwight Davis winning...
...barrage," said a Navy citation, "was followed by a vicious assault by onrushing enemy troops. Resolutely advancing through the veritable curtain of fire to aid his stricken comrades, Hammond moved among the stalwart garrison of marines and, although critically wounded himself, valiantly continued to administer aid to the other wounded throughout an exhausting four-hour period. When the unit was ordered to with draw, he skillfully directed the evacuation of casualties and remained in the fire-swept area . . . until he was struck by a round of enemy mortar fire and fell, mortally wounded. By his exceptional fortitude, inspiring initiative...
Last week Francis Hammond's young widow, now a nurse with the Alexandria Health Department, took her 2½-month-old baby, Francis Jr., to the Pentagon Building. There, Secretary of the Navy
Robert B. Anderson presented her with a Congressional Medal of Honor won by Corpsman Hammond for "conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty"-the fifth awarded a Navy man during the Korean war. The yawning baby was photographed; the Secretary carried him proudly off down corridors to show to admirals. Then the hero's wife took the hero's child in her arms and went quietly back to Alexandria with the bit of metal which had been molded in testimony of the fine name of Drug Clerk Francis Hammond...