Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behemoth Creature. Earthquake was Captain James B. McGovern, 32, of Elizabeth, NJ. He flew P-40s and Mustangs over China with Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory...
...This year, U.S. Rubber donated about $150,000 toward operating the league's 25-staffer headquarters in Williamsport and footing World Series players' traveling expenses. Other league activities are locally financed, manned by volunteers. Stotz is now commissioner. U.S. Rubber's easygoing Publicity Man Peter J. McGovern, 51, who moved to Williamsport last winter, is the Little League's elected president...
...relatively few talented boys. The accused: local commercial sponsors from jewelry stores and filling stations to undertaking parlors, rabid fathers and coaches trying vicariously to realize their own frustrated ambitions, mobs of partisan fans to whom winning means more than the boys' welfare or the game. Counters Pete McGovern: "The kids, on their own, can take the competition in their stride; it's the adults who sometimes go off the deep end." Admitting that local abuses have forced withdrawal of some Little League franchises ($20 a year), he points out that, "a bureaucracy" would be needed to police...
...Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, Ex-Diplomat Eugene Dooman, Professors William McGovern, Kenneth Colegrove and Karl Wittfogel variously testified that Lattimore, Far East specialist and Director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins, followed a line favorable to the Communists, and that his ideas had powerful backing in the State Department...
...Army could not force the medals on the dead heroes' father, but it could make sure that their deeds were properly recorded. The honors awarded Robert and Jerome McGovern will be inscribed on their service records whether Halsey McGovern likes it or not. In the Army's opinion, the medals were not awarded to the father, but to his sons in death...