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...month ago hoping to sell furniture to federal agencies. There Grindle met Hunt and was quickly impressed by his "influence"; Hunt's offices were decorated with autographed photos of prominent politicos, including Harry Truman. Hunt rattled off the names of his "friends," including Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan ("my closest and dearest friend"), Louis Johnson, and others. Hunt, according to Grindle, claimed that he had swung many deals. Among them was the repurchase from the War Assets Administration of Long Island's Lido Beach Club by its prewar owners, for half of their selling price to the Navy...
...Learned that his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, will not get to wear his medal from Argentina's Juan Peron, after all, because a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee refused to authorize it. The fight over the medal had inspired Truman's "s.o.b." blast at Columnist Drew Pearson...
...swarmed over the stage, inspecting everything from tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second concert that night...
...directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president-and new business...
...ALFRED VAUGHAN...