Word: kimmel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ADMIRAL KIMMEL'S STORY (206 pp.)-Husband E. Kimmel&#;Regnery...
...Until this day I have kept silence on the subject of Pearl Harbor," writes Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 72. "Now, however, I deem it my duty to speak out.'' In testimony at inquiries, Kimmel previously implied that Washington kept vital information from him before the Japanese struck at his fleet. Books by his partisans have done the same. Now Kimmel makes the direct charge for the first time: "This lack of action on the part of both the War and Navy Departments must have been in accordance with high political direction...
...Admiral Kimmel is entitled to tear off an angry book. As the responsible commander on the spot, he and the late General Walter Short were singled out as scapegoats for those U.S. leaders who blundered in assuming the Hawaiian base safe from attack. Relieved from command, Kimmel was refused the court-martial that might have shown whether or not he deserved to bear all the blame alone. And when finally he got a hearing at a postwar congressional investigation, his countrymen were by then persuaded that the real blunderers at Pearl Harbor were the Japanese, and the old salt...
...tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers had "gotten out of hand and there might be violence...
Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...