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...Hero Hammond...
...wife and mother of Francis Colton Hammond, Navy hospital corpsman I/C, were deeply hurt by the article in the Jan. 11 issue of TIME, "Report on a Drug Clerk." It is felt that a great injustice has been done to the memory of this young man who died a hero's death. The article . . . tends to belittle the youth and training of this young man when it would appear that nothing too good could have been said in recording publicly the life of one to whom the entire nation owes a debt of gratitude...
...Hammond was the only freshman to lose a match to the Exeter team. Freshman Captain Ben Heckscher and Calvin Place both won their matches in straight sets. Murphy and Ostheimer each won 3-2 victories...
...Beckscher, Grayson Murphy, and Calvin Place led the freshman B team to victory over the Harvard Club, 3 to 2, there, yesterday. Jim Hammond and Tony Ostheimer lost their sets 3-1. Yesterday afternoon the freshmen D team defeated the Brooks School squad 3 to 2 here. Bob Gerry, Hank Holmes, and Dwight Davis winning...
Robert B. Anderson presented her with a Congressional Medal of Honor won by Corpsman Hammond for "conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty"-the fifth awarded a Navy man during the Korean war. The yawning baby was photographed; the Secretary carried him proudly off down corridors to show to admirals. Then the hero's wife took the hero's child in her arms and went quietly back to Alexandria with the bit of metal which had been molded in testimony of the fine name of Drug Clerk Francis Hammond...