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...staunch belief in this policy, he was made the victim of many scurrilous attacks. Today's game, between two all-star House teams, is his vindication...
...first Hawaiian newsman to win a Nieman fellowship, Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, is assistant city editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's largest daily and a staunch exponent of that island's statehood...
...Staunch Citizen...
...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
...Luis Thomen, pinned his country's Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (highest decoration given a foreigner) on Major General Anthony C. ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne. On hand to get the same medal (his tenth foreign decoration): Major General Harry Vaughan, for "outstanding service to humanity . . . a staunch defender of the lofty ideals of western civilization...