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...Lucius DuBignon Clay, 53, General, U.S.A. (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. forces in Europe and military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, took over the $96,000-a-year chairmanship of the $250 million Continental Can Co. General Clay resigned last November as president of the Ecusta Paper Corp. after seven weeks' service, when the company was acquired by Olin Industries, whose principal business is the manufacture of cartridges and small arms. Old Soldier Clay thought he should stay out of the munitions business...
Born. To Major General Claire Chennault (ret.), 59, granite-faced onetime boss of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force, and second wife Anna Chan, 26, former news reporter: their second daughter (his tenth child); in Hong Kong. Name: Cynthia Louise. Weight...
Last week at half time of the Pittsburgh Steelers game, Owner Marshall was barred from the Redskins' dressing room in Washington's Griffith Stadium. The coach, Vice Admiral John E. Whelchel, U.S.N. (ret.), was giving his pros a pep talk, and it was for the ears of football players only. "Billick" Whelchel broke a big piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes...
Died. Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederic Robert Harris, U.S. Navy (ret.), 74, onetime Navy dock chief, World War II designer of the world's largest floating drydocks, which followed the Pacific fleet and made repairs possible in combat areas; in Man-lattan...