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...appointed to prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they go over the topic with the guest speaker. Tape-recorded "testimony" is later transcribed, edited and distibuted for future study. Among the speakers thus far: R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor, Army Lieut. General (ret.) Albert C. Wedemeyer, Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner, U.S.N...
Died. Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell, U.S.N. (ret.), 68, veteran Navy cruiser and battleship skipper between world wars, member (with Physicist Vannevar Bush, Harvard President James B. Conant, Army Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer) of the nation's top policy panel on military use of atomic weapons during the three wartime years before Hiroshima; of pneumonia; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...service-connected ailments. The law is strongly backed by the American Legion, but is damned by the American Medical Association as "an opening wedge for socialized medicine." Despite the A.M.A.'s stand, the VA hospital system's able director, Vice Admiral Joel T. Boone, USN (ret.) feels that America's generosity to its veterans is merely a just obligation. His thesis: "I don't subscribe to the idea that a veteran with nonservice disabilities is not entitled to hospitalization. He certainly is, and I intend to make sure that he gets...
Even the McCarthy-backing "Committee for Ten Million" developed a major chink in its armor. General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet, the committee's biggest name, fired off a telegram to McCarthy saying that he was "shocked by your personal bitter attack," which "causes me to withdraw all support...
After the game, one of the first men in the dressing room was Fleet Admiral (ret.) William F. ("Bull") Halsey. No naval battle had ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...