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...guard who relieved him on one of the seized boats, an 18-year-old pfc. from Tennessee drawled: "Ah swear ah did not hear a shot fired, but sure's shootin my kids'll read this in the history book some general'll dream...
President Truman last week tempered Army justice with civilian mercy: Pfc. Joseph Hicswa, sentenced to death for the murder of two Japanese civilians during a drunken brawl (TIME, Jan. 28), will serve 30 years' imprisonment at hard labor instead. The President acted on the strength of a review by the Judge Advocate General's office which found that: 1) the crime was unpremeditated; 2) Hicswa's mentality was sufficiently low to justify clemency; 3) the death sentence was excessive. More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed...
...PFC.) ROBERT W. POINDEXTER...
...Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
...PFC.) JOHN S. DICKINSON...