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Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...
Prizes for the election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
Died. Major General James Edmond Fechet (rhymes with O'Shea), U.S.A. (ret.), 70, second chief of the Army Air Corps (1927-31); after long illness; in Washington. Old Cavalryman Fechet rose from the ranks, switched to the infant air force in 1917, returned from retirement to active duty to run the Army Air Forces Promotion Board during World...
Last year's winners selected modern poets for their entries, but prose is acceptable. Judges for the contest include Lewis Perry, former headmaster of Exeter Academy; Walter D. Edmonds '26, novelist; and Major General Sherman Miles, U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...