Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Woodmere, Seamon went to Yale, majored in English, went out for boxing, developed his writing in Professor John Berdan's daily-theme course. Commissioned a Marine lieutenant on graduation in 1940 (he is now a retired light colonel), he was in flight school on Dec. 7, 1941. After a series of courses in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., Pilot Seamon was assigned to a photo-mapping outfit. At the controls of a PB4Y-I, he and his crew dodged flack and fought off enemy fighters to make a map for the invasion of Guam...
Daughter of Army Colonel Percy W. Thompson (now retired), Barbara lived on Army posts, went to high school in Gainesville, Fla., attended Purdue for a while before her father was transferred to Vienna in 1946. There, in the normal round of Army social events, she met Captain John Eisenhower, U.S. Infantry, who was a company commander. They got married less than a year later in Virginia, at a big wedding attended by 200 guests, including Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower...
...determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...
...Trujillo, 51, and Alma McLaughlin, 38. Both come from top families: he is the youngest brother of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and nominal President of the country; she is the daughter of onetime U.S. Marine Sergeant Charles McLaughlin, who stayed on after the 1916-24 occupation to become a colonel in Trujillo's army and president of the Dominican Airline. Last week, before 1,600 guests in white ties and formal gowns, in a wedding party that included the dictator as best man, Alma marched under an archway of swords and took Hector in marriage...
...CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...