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...Through health we can defeat the evil threat of communism," Brigadier General James S. Simmons, (Ret.), dean of the School of Public Health, declared last night at Houston, Texas...
...local scale, a better than ordinary example of preparation was being carried on in a building on New York City's East 28th Street. There General Lucius Clay, U.S.A. (ret.), topflight military staff planner, the man who stubbornly steered Berlin through the Russian blockades, who was now chairman of the state's Civilian Defense Commission, earnestly turned his mind to the moment when the awful crisis might arrive...
...ships. After all, the U.S. had a mothball fleet of 2,154 World War II cargo vessels ready for action on a few weeks' notice. But last week it looked as if the time had come to start worrying about cargo ships too. Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane (Ret.), Federal Maritime Administrator, warned that the U.S. did not have enough fast cargo ships. Of the mothball fleet, 1,528 were lumbering 10-knot Liberties. Only 205 were 15-knot Victory ships and last week 130 had already been put to work on the Korean...
...Antonio, Bataan's General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.), 67, was pleased to receive a check from Uncle Sam for $1,210 - $1 for each day he spent in Japanese prison camps. Said Hero Wainwright: "I'll use it to pay my income tax with...
Born. To Brigadier General James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C. (ret.), 47, commander of the 378 marines who beat off Japanese attacks on Wake Island for 14 days in December 1941, now a Republican candidate for Congress, and Rachel Clarke Cooke Devereux, fortyish, his second wife (his first wife died while he was in a Japanese prison camp): their second child (his third), a son. Name: undecided-because, said the general, "we expected a girl." Weight...