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Died. Brigadier General Ira L. Kimes (ret.), 49, Marine Air Group commander at Midway Island (June 1942), who got the D.S.C. for standing off a Japanese task force until U.S. carrier planes came to the rescue; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda...
Died. Vice Admiral Russell Willson (ret.), 64, tall, elegant wartime deputy (1942-43) to COMINCH Ernie King and military adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report...
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...