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...Never Thought . . ." Riding in one of the cars, Pfc. Joe L. Vaughan of Greenville, S.C. mumbled abashedly to Sergeant Olan E. Robertson of Tallapoosa, Ga. (who has seen 52 months of service): "I never thought I'd come back at all . . . . I'll never forget this...
...politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were a Polish refugee pastrycook with a wife, a child, and a hereditary stomach ailment ("My motter die of vormce...
...that his wife's mysterious illness was simply a means of preventing him from returning to the squalid Eastern life she detested, and he dreaded the day when he would have to choose between his duty to her and his vocation. And finally he saw that his children, Vaughan and Virginia, were becoming more & more skeptical of his religious teachings...
...precedent of appointing professional Army & Navy officers as Presidential aides was broken. President Truman had already replaced Colonel Richard Park Jr. of the regular Army with Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, emergency officer and World War I comrade of Captain Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery. Last week the President announced that his new Naval aide (replacing Vice Admiral Wilson Brown) was Captain James K. Vardaman...
Like Colonel Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide, Ed McKim's friendship with Harry Truman began in uniform. They first became acquainted as members of Missouri's State Guard, and both were in France with the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, when Harry Truman became commander of Battery D. (At that time Ed McKim did not like his battery commander-thought him schoolteacherish and sissified; soon he would have "gone through hell...