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Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
General Thomas ("Tommy") Holcomb (ret.), commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 through '43 (and first Marine ever to become a full general), resigned at 68, after four years as U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...
...Hill '48, and Francis S. MacNutt '46 won second prizes of $25 in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest at Paine Hall last night. The contest was judged by novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principle of Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A. (Ret...
Novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A. (Ret.) will judge the oratorical efforts of Robert K. Bingham '48, George Bluestone '49, Robert M. Cipes '50, Robert L. Fischells '50, Bryant W. Haliday '49, John L. Hedges '48, Hugh M. Hill '48, Francis S. MacNutt '46, Lucian C. Parlate, '50, and Paul I. Sparer...
When Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A. (ret.) arrived in Buenos Aires 18 months ago to drum up some business for his new construction firm, he heard businessmen denouncing President Perón's new five-year plan for industrialization. "Exactly the kind of talk I heard in the first Roosevelt administration," said West Pointer Lord, who had worked for the New Deal (Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project) long before he worked for Eisenhower in the E.T.O. service of supply. Perón, told what Lord had said, sent for him. Soon he was head of the President...