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Tunner set up headquarters at Ashiya air base in southern Japan, brought with him, as usual, assistants of long standing. Tunner's chief of staff Colonel Glen R. Birchard had been with him in Germany. Both his communications officer, Colonel Manuel Hernandez, and his operations officer, Colonel Robert ("Red") Forman, were holdovers from the days of the Hump. Says Tunner: "When we start a new airlift, we start in a hell of a hurry. It is a whole lot easier to start with people you know...
European featherweight champ Ray Famechon of France, won a unanimous ten-round decision over Glen Flanagan in Madison Square Garden last night. The fight marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Garden...
...nine unhurried Chinese Communists led by a general named Wu Hsiu-chuan. Impatient U.N. delegates mulled over reports that the Chinese would reach New York by Nov. 24, speculated curiously about where the Chinese would eat and sleep. (One popular guess: in the Russians' rented mansion at Glen Cove...
...middle, though the oratory sounded as if it were for the extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road...
Behind Valentine was a life spent in universities, with some side trips into politics and into the business world. A Quaker, born in Glen Cove, N.Y., he went to Swarthmore where he played three years of varsity football, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and played on and coached the American 1924 Olympic champion Rugby team. He returned to teach English at Swarthmore, became Master of Pierson College at Yale, a professor of history and chairman of admissions, and finally at 34, president of richly endowed Rochester. Married, he has three children. Husky, handsome and emphatic, he became...