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...joined up after a Presidential call for volunteers "for a dangerous and hazardous mission." From the jungle training bases of Trinidad and the Canal Zone, from Guadalcanal and New Georgia came many a veteran Regular Army man itching for action. Some old-timers like Sergeant John Russell of Hammond, La., ex-Marine who wears the Navy Cross he won in Nicaragua. Others were the young, unmarried zealots who usually make fine soldiers...
...change is a result of the war-the Medical Department wanted to spread the latest medical news (except secret material) among its personnel as quickly as possible. The man chosen for the job (which began with the October issue) was pink-faced, silver-haired Lieut. Colonel Johnson Francis Hammond, who retired from the army in ill health in 1920, was recalled in 1942. He spent the interim as news editor and assistant editor of the A.M.A. Journal...
...National Football League (so named in 1922) started in 1920 like a free-for-all. By 1925 there were 20 teams from such places as Pottsville, Pa. and Hammond, Ind. Then the Bears signed up Red Grange and 72,000 watched him beat the New York Giants. In the next few years, rules were loosened to encourage laterals, field goals and higher scores. A League franchise was worth $50 in 1920; four years ago the Detroit Lions changed hands for about...
...July, 1940, he transferred to the Supply Corps and entered the Navy Finance and Supply School at Philadelphia. In March of the following year he was assigned to the USS Hammond, (2) a destroyed, as Disbursing Officer, Destroyer Division...
...bottle of gin, and a hot weather handkerchief, he is one of the most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...