Word: rets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...
Married. Major General William Henry Draper Jr. (ret.), 54, investment banker and, until last month, economic adviser to General Lucius Clay; and Eunice Barzynski, 33, onetime WACaptain stationed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow and daughter of Brigadier General Joseph E. Barzynski (ret.); he for the second time; in Chicago...
Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...
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...