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McCarthy immediately saw a chance to serve up another curve ball. Seated next to Reber was Assistant Defense Secretary H. Struve Hensel, whom McCarthy views as the hardest hitter in the Army lineup. Joe archly asked that Hensel identify himself. Bulky Struve Hensel arose, replied angrily: ". . . Senator McCarthy knows well who I am, and so does every- one else here." Joe smirked...
Meeting No. 3. Next day, in Stevens' Pentagon office, Assistant Defense Secretaries Struve Hensel and Frederick Seaton were advising the Secretary how to handle McCarthy at the still-scheduled public hearing. Suddenly Stevens marched out without telling Hensel, Seaton or anyone else that he was going to a meeting with McCarthy and without taking an adviser with him. At this point, the press of the world had Stevens poised, in fighting pose, ready to take on the Wisconsin slugger...
...There were two in World War II, both now doing well: Master Sgt. Frederic Hensel is an Alabama farmer, and Pfc. Jimmy Wilson a law student at the University of Colorado...
Jimmy Wilson was one of the two quadruple amputees among U.S. soldiers in World War II. The other, 31-year-old Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, was staked by public-spirited Southerners and Midwesterners to $65,000, now owns and operates a 143-acre farm north of Birmingham...
...year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every...