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Married. Joe ("the Brown Bomber") Louis, 41, longtime (1937-49) world heavyweight boxing champion; and Rose Morgan, 41, Harlem cosmetics manufacturer; on Christmas Day in Manhattan...
...promoted to Eagle Scout, got a peck of congratulations from his pretty mother, now Mrs. J. Watson Pedlow. In 1941, soon after heroic Army Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr. ordered his crew to hit the silk and then crashed in his crippled B-17 bomber on Luzon, President Roosevelt penned a request to "the President of the United States in 1956." F.D.R. asked that the airman's infant son get a West Point appointment as a nation's thanks for Captain Kelly's valor. Boy Scout Kelly is now undecided whether to set his sights...
...Among the members of the ten-man courtmartial: Major General Douglas MacArthur (who voted for acquittal). Among Mitchell's stoutest supporters: Major "Hap" Arnold, later boss of the Army Air Forces in World War II, and Major ''Tooey" Spaatz, World War II bomber boss, later first chief of staff of the separate air force...
Died. Glenn Luther Martin, 69, barnstorming flyer and pioneer aircraft builder who made the first plane specifically designed for mail service, first U.S. bomber with an alloy steel fuselage, later built the China Clipper; founder of the Glenn L. Martin Co., early seaplane developer; after two years of illness; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
Then began the battle of the press-agents, in which the Army last week got in the last word, for what it was worth. It said that the Air Force itself plans to use Nike to protect some of its strategic bomber bases. However silly the argument may have seemed, there was a reason for it: the Defense Department was in the last stages of carving out its budget for fiscal 1957 and both services were seeking a larger cut of the melon for their own weapons development programs...