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...JOHNSON (RET...
General of the Army (ret.) Omar N. Bradley will visit Kirkland House for three days starting April 14, Charles H. Taylor, Master, disclosed yesterday...
Died. Vice Admiral Osborne Bennett Hardison, U.S.N. (ret.), 66, skipper of the aircraft carrier Enterprise in the 1942 battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; of injuries received when he was run over by a truck; in Washington. The "Big E" was the lonely nucleus of U.S. naval power during the early phases of the Pacific war. Last summer, despite efforts to preserve her as a national memorial, the Enterprise was sold for scrap...
...Foundation went the touching plea to the President of the U.S.: Would he, in the name of Christian charity, posthumously pardon that gifted storyteller O. Henry,* convicted in 1898 of embezzling $854.08 from an Austin bank? At the same time the wire went to President Eisenhower from Major General (ret.) Paul Wakefield, the foundation's president, word of his appeal was scattered to newspapers, radio and television stations the country over...
...last salute was sounding for an old and good friend, Captain Everett ("Swede") Hazlett, U.S.N. (ret.), who died last week of cancer. A high school chum of Ike's back in Abilene, Swede spent many an hour at the Belle Springs Creamery playing penny-ante poker with Night Foreman Eisenhower during the long, lonely night shift. It was Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President...