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Aware that they stood a good chance of being captured, Taylor and Gardiner wore their uniforms lest they be shot as spies. The two men transferred from a British PT boat to an Italian corvette and were put ashore in the port of Gaeta. They made the 75-mile trip to Rome in an Italian truck, stayed back of the enemy lines for two days, discovered that Badoglio could not give the necessary support to a landing, called off the attack by radio and were flown out to Tunis in an Italian plane. Eisenhower later wrote of Taylor: "The risks...
...MacArthur for his "triumphant" tour, the general thanked the President for making him "feel a part of the current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific war. He was a good one, too-a brave and resourceful young naval officer. But, judging from the luncheon he served me today [pièce de résistance: Cornish hen; dessert: omelette surprise]," added MacArthur, "he is living somewhat higher...
...passing pain were it not for John Kennedy's long history of back trouble. He first suffered what apparently was a ruptured disc between two lumbar vertebrae while playing football as a Harvard sophomore. Again, the disc was jammed against spinal nerves in 1943, when his PT boat was run down by a Japanese destroyer. Doctors operated on the disc in 1944, but the pain continued, and ten years later, while a member of the Senate, Kennedy took to crutches. In the fall of 1954, in a double fusion of spinal discs, a metal plate was inserted...
...frustrating experiences of freshman year brought the first twinges of class feeling. After all, students shut up in the (then) dilapidated Yard, lacking the intellectual life of the Houses and suffering from compulsory PT, naturally commiserated. An unsuccessful riot--"Fight Mental Health"--expressed 1961's dissatisfaction during the freshman year spring; a flu epidemic, Coach John M. Yovicsin's disappointing first season with the balanced-T, and a tuition hike added further woes. The members of the class could also take perverse pride in an academic record Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade deemed "disappointing, and, to a great...
...wartime heroism. With White House approval, the Navy has opened up classified records for the author, Robert J. Donovan, Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Herald Tribune, who also wrote Eisenhower: The Inside Story. Though Lieutenant Kennedy is best remembered for having saved his crew from famed PT Boat 109 after it was sliced in two by a Japanese destroyer in the hostile Solomons. Reporter Donovan says he has rummaged up evidence of earlier, even greater Kennedy exploits on another PT boat. The new biography will get the full treatment: serialization in the Herald Tribune, excerpts in magazines...