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Miss Julia J. Henderson of Wellesley, Massachusetts, will become the first woman student at the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration when she begins her research next term with nine other Littauer Fellowship winners...
...uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between General Short and Admiral Kimmel, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Knudsen, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Henderson, Mr. Eberstadt and Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Jeffers and Elmer Davis, Mr. Byrnes and the War Labor Board, Mr. Ickes and the War Labor Board, Chester Davis and Mr. Vinson, and, most notorious of all, between Vice President Wallace and Secretary Jones...
...platoon sergeant, he put his men first, himself last. But in battle he was not self-effacing. One night in October 1942, he bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...Navy gave them brand-new Corsairs and the Marines flew them from Henderson Field to lead the mounting Solomons campaign...
Guadalcanal. The Pacific war moved south and the Marines moved with it. They fought over Guadalcanal, based on the field which they had named after Loften Henderson. They flew workhorse Douglas bombers. They flew old Grumman fighters against nimbler Zeros, but adapted their tactics to their ship. Major Joe Foss tied Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 kills. On one day he got two before lunch, three in the afternoon...