Word: macarthurs
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Sometimes a ZIP code is superfluous. Addresses like "A Grand Old Soldier" and "The Great Man" are quite enough when the letters are among the 20,000 get-well notes that have been sent to Douglas MacArthur, now mending in Walter Reed Army Hospital...
...boat commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar...
...memory, and at 84, or almost, the Old Soldier has a more glory-filled one than most. On the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Bataan, Long Island University draped the aqua-colored hood of a doctor of letters-his 17th honorary degree-on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. "Sentiment has muddled many problems," said MacArthur, whose memoirs began in LIFE last week, "but has settled none. In the long advance of civilization, no facet has quite reached the importance of a full education...
Harry wants to take away MacArthur's star...
Black will head a group of trustees which includes Gov. Endicott Peabody '40, Chief Justice Karl Warren, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Richard Cardinal Cushing, composer Samuel Barber, AFL-CIO president George Meany, Gen. Dougian MacArthur, and novelists John Hersey and John Steinback...