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Professor Benjamin Vandegrift, of Washington and Lee, sees a whole new breed of middle-management executives who have graduated from the campus activism of the '60s and are now moving into politics to preserve their dreams. New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is almost poetic on the subject of the entrepreneurial ethos. "The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people," he says. "They were founded by people with extraordinary energy, intelligence, ambition, aggressiveness. All those factors go into the primordial capitalist urge." M.I.T. Professor Louis Banks takes the next step...
Died. Alexander A. ("Sunny Jim") Vandegrift, 86, commander of the U.S. Marine Corps assault on Guadalcanal and Bougainville islands during World War II; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. A quiet, courtly Virginian, Vandegrift directed the first U.S. land offensive against the Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four...
Married. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 66, retired Marine Corps commandant (1944-47), who led the Marines' 1942 assault on Guadalcanal; and Catherine Henson McDaniel, 49, nurse of his late wife; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fort Lauderdale...
Died. Mrs. Mildred Strode Vandegrift, 66, wife of General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 65, hero of Guadalcanal, onetime (1944-47) commandant of the Marine Corps; after long illness; in Lynchburg...
Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...