Word: shea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life. In Hoboken, N.J., when police came to arrest James Shea, 59, for drunkenness, they learned from his wife Maria that during the last five years he had spoon-fed whisky to his three pet mongrels, incited them to bite her more than 200 times...
...West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile. Turning up in Korea in the closing weeks of the fighting. 2nd Lieut. Shea led a platoon of Able Company, 17th Infantry Regiment on Pork Chop Hill. One night the company was heavily hit by a Chinese attack, but stood its ground. Lieut. Shea led two counterattacks that night and three the next day. His own company was cut up; he himself got a shrapnel wound in the neck. But doggedly refusing evacuation...
Last week Lieut. Shea was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor, for valorous action "above and beyond the call of duty." So far, exactly 100 Medals of Honor have been awarded for the Korean war: 61 in the Army, 34 to Marines, four in the Navy, one in the Air Force...
...From Korea came word that the U.S. Military Academy's greatest distance runner, 2nd Lieut, Dick Shea, is missing in action. Shea, an army staff sergeant in Germany before he was appointed to West Point, won the IC-4A cross-country championship three years straight (1949-51), holds the West Point indoor records at a mile (4:10) and two miles...
...time the last speaking engagement of the year had been filled, the team of McNaughton, Scott & Shea had traveled through the 48 states and the District of Columbia. They had visited 256 colleges and universities, where they made a total of 700 talks, in addition to other speeches before various clubs, conventions and public forums...