Word: va
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Until the day he died at 21, stocky, brown-haired Francis C. Hammond of Alexandria. Va. showed virtually none of those traits of character that are usually thought to mark the outstanding man. He was an indifferent student at his home town's George Washington High School. He took no part in athletics. He worked part time in his uncle's drugstore and plunked away on the guitar; among his friends he was a follower, never a leader. He had no great desire to join the armed services, but when he became 19, in 1951, he picked...
Syracuse, N.Y.; Dec 28 at 12:00 noon. Coach Lloyd Jordan will speak at the Syracuse Hotel. Hobart W. Davis, City Bank Bldg.; Washington, D.C.: Dec. 29. Dinner at the Army-Navy Club. David D. Henry will speak. David L. Krupsaw, 1057 26th Rd. S., Arlington, Va...
Married. Army Corporal Edward S. Dickenson. 23, hillbilly captive of the Communists in Korea, first among 23 American P.W.s who, having refused repatriation, changed his mind and came home (TIME, Nov. 2); and Kate Laney, 21, neighbor's daughter; in Big Stone Gap, Va...
...Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president of Westvaco Chemical Corp. and United Chemicals, Inc., and president of W. Va. Charcoal Co. before joining Davison as executive vice president...
...Army's Medical Replacement Training Center at Camp Pickett, Va., 1000 recruits compared the Ace and the "Ampin," a semi-automatic device perfected in 1948. After detailed training in the use of both devices, the recruits were divided into three groups...