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...decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...
Also a part of his week was something that comes to few heroes, a court decision in Chicago which assured him some $80,000. His father, Edward J. O'Hare, was originally a brilliant St. Louis lawyer, too smart for his breeches. Father O'Hare became a wealthy Chicago operator of race tracks (for nags and dogs), notorious "front man" for Al Capone and other gangsters, and was shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare...
Home from the wars was Naval Air Hero Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare. Summoned to Washington with his bride of seven months, he soon learned why: to receive decorations from President Roosevelt...
Three Jap planes jettisoned their bombs and turned tail. O'Hare & friends overhauled them, shot them down. More bombers, nine this time, came on to attack. Anti-aircraft chewed them up, fighters ran them down. When the shooting was all over, the Japanese had lost 16 of the 18 planes they had sent over. U.S. losses: one pilot, two planes. Black-browed Lieut. O'Hare's score: six planes in a single flight, a record...
Anne Morgan, busy, greying sister of J. P., held a reunion in Manhattan with cronies Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times correspondent) and Playwright Rachel Crothers. Occasion: a testimonial dinner celebrating Miss Morgan's 30-year effort to better the lot of business and professional women...