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Died. Rear Admiral Giles Chester Stedman, USNR, 63, vice president of the United States Lines and former superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner...
...head-on collision on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Saturday caused the death of Ensign Richard A. Lionette, USNR, '53. Lionette, who was 27, was the captain and star of Harvard's 1953 basketball team...
...entering the unit under the Holloway plan, which was passed by Congress in June, will be appointed midshipmen, USNR, and will have their tuition, fees, textbooks, and uniforms paid for by the Navy. Denoted as Regular Students, they will also receive a yearly retainer salary of $600, but will not be entitled to G.I. Bill benefits simultaneously...
...former NROTC men can utilize their cruise as a probationary period, applying for a transfer from USNR to USN if they find the salt air agrees with them...
...THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER (911 pp.)-Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR-Simon & Schuster...