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...began back in 1949, when General Omar Bradley was promoted from Army Chief of Staff to the chairmanship of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff, and decided to stay on in his roomy old Quarters "I" at Fort Myer, traditional home of the Army's No. I man. General Joe Collins, coming in as Bradley's successor, had to make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved...
Perhaps one out of every ten in the U.S. population carries a few amoebae in his bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter...
...fund was established by Mrs. Etta Dana, widow of the late Myer Dana, ex-director of several Boston Jewish organizations...
Three excited youngsters, sons of Manhattan's millionaire Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, arrived recently at the Fort Myer, Va. quarters of General Omar Bradley for a visit with their star-studded godfathers. Result: a medley of big names and a remarkable godfather-godson picture. The host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...