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Died. John Kee, 76, since 1933 Democratic Congressman from West Virginia, for the past two years chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; of a heart attack while conducting a committee meeting; in Washington. A quiet, scholarly lawyer, he hewed faithfully to the Administration line without yielding his right to speak his mind, last fall suggested that Administration officials not concerned with foreign policy should "keep their big mouths shut...
What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...
...peace do not represent U.S. policy," it said. "The United States Government does not favor instituting a war of any kind." Matthews assured everybody that his speech represented "my own personal thinking, not that of the Administration." Up on Capitol Hill, West Virginia's 76-year-old John Kee, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested that Administration officials not concerned with foreign policy should "keep their big mouths shut...
Baby-faced Kee Yong Ham came in first (2 hr. 32 min. 39 sec.). With true Korean courtesy, he announced that he was disappointed because Korean Champion Yun, who placed third, was not able to win. Yun, suffering from leg cramps and a pre-race injury, had barely caught John Lafferty of Jersey City with a closing 100-yd. sprint to make the Korean sweep complete...
...Coach Kee insists that his pupils follow a rigorous training routine which includes running seven miles a day, racing frequently and climbing mountains to develop wind. He thought he knew why his boys had beaten the best marathoners in the U.S. Said Coach Kee: "The automobile is the biggest handicap for American runners...