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Last week the President got his wish. After long deliberation, the Navy Board approved Medals of Honor for four marines. Three had died while winning theirs; the fourth went to 1st Lieut. Henry Alfred Commuiskey of Hattiesburg, Miss. In the White House rose garden one sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans...
McGee got a change of venue and a second trial, 30 miles away in Hattiesburg. Again he was sentenced to death. Again the sentence was reversed, this time on the ground that Negroes were excluded from grand-jury lists. By the third trial, the Communists were in control of Willie McGee's defense, and they submitted a new and ugly accusation: McGee had been intimate with the woman for several years and had been framed because he tried to break off the relationship. In the small (pop. 20,000) town of Laurel, there was utterly no evidence of such...
...radio and TV show. But his network program over 220 ABC stations last week brought some surprises. The biggest was the discovery that of the first six stations to grab the show for local sponsorship, five were in the South: Mobile, Ala., Gastonia, N.C., Lynchburg, Va., Jackson, Tenn. and Hattiesburg, Miss. "I don't quite understand that," says Robinson, "but I sure approve...
...Gourmet. In Hattiesburg, Miss., Clayton E. Stewart missed "those good home-cooked meals," applied for and won readmission to the county jail...
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...