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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J. D. DONOVAN...
John Henebry, 40, Air Force Reserve major general, learned from commanding bombers in the Pacific enough to become the 26-year-old founder of Chicago's Skymotive, Inc. (executive aircraft servicers). Allen J. Lefferdink, 40, onetime Nebraska grocer boy, went to midshipman's school in 1942, captained subchaser No. 672 on Atlantic convoys, came out to build a Rocky Mountain empire of 42 companies in banking, insurance, a new luxury hotel. Sitting in his office under the old 672's flag, he says: "I run my businesses just like the Navy...
...service helped equip for heavy jobs waiting back home: Armour's President William Wood Prince (artillery captain), Ford's Vice President Benson Ford (Air Corps captain), IBM Boss Thomas Watson Jr. (Air Corps pilot). While an aircraft-carrier deck officer in three Pacific battles, Indiana's J. Irwin Miller, 49, gained the confidence it took to build the family owned Cummins Engine Co., Inc. into the largest U.S. maker of truck diesels. Says he: "I found out I could hold my own away from home...
...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME...
Christmas (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Bishop Fulton J. Sheen applies the Nativity story to 20th century life. Services follow over ABC at 10:45 p.m. from Washington's Lutheran Church of the Reformation, which boasts one of the best choirs...