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...backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...
Joseph Wright Alsop Jr., kin to both the Roosevelts, crack peacetime Washington correspondent (with Robert Kintner), was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, appointed aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault. Since 1941 Alsop had successively: 1) been in the Naval Reserve; 2) resigned from it; 3) been captured as a State Department man by the Japanese; 4) been repatriated; 5) worked with Chennault as a Lend-Lease...
...kin to famed "John Gilpin" of Cheapside, England, whose wild ride was celebrated by Poet William Cowper...
...kin to husky, youthful (38) Major General Frederick L. Anderson, boss of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command...
...Next of Kin. Early last summer, when Bob Hope was about to board an Army bomber for Belfast, he was asked who should be notified in case of his injury or death. He named Hearstling Parsons as his next of kin. "She'd be mad," he explained, "if she wasn't the first to know...