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When it was over, Convicts Carrasco and Dominguez lay dead. Father O'Brien, who had voluntarily joined the group, was wounded, but apparently not seriously. The two women, Elizabeth Beseda, 57, a prison school teacher, and Judy Standley, 43, a librarian, were killed. The two women had volunteered to accompany the convicts as hostages in the armored car-a sacrificial offer that had placed them in that fatal inner circle beside the desperate...
Died. Admiral William Harrison Standley, 90, chief of U.S. naval operations from 1933 to 1937, wartime Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he kept lend-lease flowing while pressing Stalin to tell the Russian people about U.S. efforts on their behalf, grew so disgusted that after the war he campaigned against the Communists with such fervor that in 1959 he bitterly protested when San Diego used a red Christmas star atop a civic center; of pneumonia; in San Diego...
...Million's top echelon is studded with big, even distinguished, names. Lieut. General (ret.) George Stratemeyer, Korean war Air Force commander, is chairman of the national organization. Among the vice chairmen are General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet; Admiral (ret.) William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations and Ambassador to Russia; Lieut. General (ret.) Pedro A. del Valle, commander of the 1st Marine Division at Okinawa; and Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey...
...Book (Johnny Standley; Capitol). Something about "grandma's lye soap," in which Comedian Standley wows a studio audience and makes it clap hands in unison...
Although he now lives quietly in Coronado, Calif., Admiral William H. Standley, wartime ambassador to Russia, still keeps a keen eye on civic affairs. Last week he protested an outrage-in-the-making which had escaped almost everyone else in the state. The city of San Diego was about to dedicate a veterans' memorial building to "those Americans who have fought for the Four Freedoms." The old (77) admiral wasted no time in hurrying down to the city council...