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...winners of the Medal of Honor, latter-day fortune brought a nose dive and a rebound. A one-man army of the Korean war, Marine Sergeant Alfred L. McLaughlin, credited with killing some 150 enemy soldiers at Bunker Hill, was whittled down to the rank of private, fined $120 and given a three-month stretch at hard labor. Better able to hold a hard position than hard liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major Henry Checklou. McLaughlin's beef: Checklou was always taunting him about that medal...
Before committing suicide in his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler made a will naming as his successor one of his most ruthless military associates: Grand Admiral of the German Fleet Karl Dönitz. Known as der Löwe (the Lion), Donitz had masterminded the submarine campaign that destroyed about 15 million tons of Allied and neutral shipping, with a loss of tens of thousands of Allied lives in World War II. "Kill and keep on killing," jug-eared, ice-blue-eyed Dönitz had exhorted his U-boat captains. "Remember, no survivors. Humanity is a weakness...
...Howe stopped for "cakes and Madeira" at Mrs. Murray's on Murray Hill. Washington's men got safely away to Harlem Heights with the loss of only about 50 casualties and 300 prisoners, and the next morning fresh Ranger scouts, led by Lieut. Colonel Thomas Knowlton of Bunker Hill fame, started up the action again around the Jones farmhouse (near Riverside Drive and 106th Street...
...there be no mistake about this: such a system founded on godlessness is something of a magnetic field . . . But such a system ever remains merely another hiding place for man, like a giant, massive concrete bunker." And the voice of God penetrates even the bunker. "That is why all attempts in the East and in the West to achieve salvation and wholeness under . . . godlessness are doomed to impotence...
...William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney as an "outstanding advocate of democracy." Ike's four other nominees-California's Bill Knowland, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Red Cross President Ellsworth Bunker were approved unanimously...