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...EDWIN F. STANTON Devon, Conn...
...Edwin F. Stanton retired in 1953 after 32 years in the U.S. Foreign Service...
Died. Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, 70, who gleefully asked, "What's the bag limit this year?" after his Pacific task force sank two Japanese cruisers in 1943 in the first battle use of ocean-going radar, outspokenly opposed armed forces unification in 1946, retired from the Navy in 1947 and became president of Mississippi's Jefferson Military College; of cancer; in Natchez, Miss...
...carrying maps of Union siege works between Virginia's York and James rivers. After the first Battle of Bull Run, in July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...
Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "The Lincoln Murder Case" follows the argument set out by Theodore Roscoe in his book The Web of Conspiracy, which put the finger on War Secretary Edwin M. Stanton as a master plotter who hired John Wilkes Booth to assassinate the President...