Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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TIME'S Press section, Aug. 7, reporting on the tall story told by Corporal Albert Vieira, who broke his ankle playing ball in Japan and passed himself off as war wounded when he arrived in California in a hospital plane, correctly says that Vieira's phony story was spread across Page One of the San Francisco News, San Francisco Call-Bulletin and the Oakland Tribune...
...Half an hour out of Tokyo, a C-47 Army transport with 26 men aboard crashed into the sea. Among the 25 lost were four war correspondents bound for the front: James 0. Supple, 34, of the Chicago Sun-Times; Albert Hinton, 46, of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide and other Negro papers ; Stephen Simmons, 32, of Britain's Hulton Press (Picture Post) ; and Maximilien Philonenko, 33, of the French Press Agency...
When the first war wounded from Korea arrived in San Francisco last week aboard a hospital plane, a small army of reporters and photographers turned out to meet them. In search of a "local angle" they surrounded Oakland's Corporal Albert Vieira, 25, the only Bay area soldier...
...tale was spread across Page One of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, the San Francisco News and the Oakland Tribune. In the rush for deadlines, only one reporter, LIFE'S Milton Orshefsky, checked Vieira's medical and service records. They gave a somewhat different version of Albert Vieira's story. He had been in Korea with the military mission, but before the fighting began he had been sent back to Japan. There, he had shattered his ankle sliding into second base in a baseball game...
Incumbent Regent Albert Hilliard, a Reno attorney up for reelection, thought otherwise. As a university employee, he argued, Sheeketski had no right to run. Otherwise, members of the faculty would also feel able to run for regent, and the result would be "complete confusion." He said he would move to have Sheeketski dismissed as coach...