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Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire (ret.), longtime physician to Franklin Roosevelt, was treated for bruises after he: 1) addressed the American Red Cross convention in San Francisco; 2) fell off the flower-banked speakers' platform...
Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...
...stock into a trusteeship which Cohu could control. Hughes refused and there was nothing left for Cohu to do but get out. Cohu was reportedly set to take a top job with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Likeliest bet to succeed him in T.W.A. was Lieut. General Harold Lee George (ret.), who ran the ATC during the war, and until recently bossed Peruvian International Airways...
Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
General Thomas ("Tommy") Holcomb (ret.), commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 through '43 (and first Marine ever to become a full general), resigned at 68, after four years as U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...