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DIED. Harry Vaughan, 87, retired Army major general who as military aide and loyal adviser to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953 embroiled his boss in a number of embarrassing controversies, among them receiving seven deep freezers from lobbyists in 1945 and three years later for accepting a medal from Argentina's Juan Perón; of a heart attack; at Fort Belvoir...
Today, in Officers' Quarters No. 7, John Vaughan, 46, director of Fort Concho, plots an act of historical conjuration. "As it was, so it shall be," says a card that decorates the blueprints on his office wall. Vaughan, a 6-ft. 6-in. Tennessean with a voice that sounds like an intellectual version of the old Gunsmoke deputy, Chester, speaks with a sort of loving surprise about the fort. A skilled stonemason and carpenter, as well as historian, Vaughan came to San Angelo from Alabama last year. He wants to build a reproduction of the Fort Concho hospital...
...Rignor, 62, believe that they and their 47-ft cruiser Rig-n-Tom were nearly lured to disaster near Chub Cay last year by a fake S O S. The radio caller mysteriously requested Rig-n-Tom's position rather than giving his own. A traveling companion, Pat Vaughan, happened to be reading about misleading distress calls in The Island, Peter Benchley's fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began...
...feelings, and must be earned. Friendships among nations, when they mean anything, are based on loyalty, because loyalty incorporates a sense of history. At the same time, loyalty, which is often as blind as love and justice, can also be dangerous. Harry Truman stood by his fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean Acheson told reporters in January 1950, citing as his precedent Matthew...
...Room, became a supper club in 1965. Its windows were doubled in size and the floor raised 18 in. to pull the skyline into the room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. But topflight nonrock talent became increasingly hard to find from season to season, and Partners May and Daly decided to turn the place into a European-style cabaret...