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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
Another Think Coming. Trim and confident, Mr. Truman stood up. Harry Vaughan, he said, had been his friend since they were soldiers together at Fort Sill in 1917. Everybody in the room knew that he loved wisecracking Harry Vaughan, and that he despised Drew Pearson, whom he once called a liar.† Once, Pearson wrote some critical remarks about Mrs. Truman and Margaret; the President never forgave...
...Truman began his off-the-cuff speech with some nostalgic comments on the military life of General Vaughan, artillery man in World War I, lieutenant colonel in World War II until he was hospitalized home after an airplane accident. Then the President of the U.S. stuck his jaw out. In a firm, measured voice he said...
Princeton's squad, which in the words of Coach Dick Vaughan is not nearly "so well loaded" as the Crimson, has been hindered all season by injuries. This, accompanied by mediocre and inconsistent play, accounts for the Tigers' present position in the Pentagonal League cellar...
...Curtiss-Wright's new projects off to a flying start, Chairman Vaughan last fortnight hustled to England, reportedly to dicker for the U.S. rights on the De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.'s gas turbine engine...