Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday morning, nursing a few hangovers-but only a few-the veterans of Battery D pulled into Washington. With canes and Battery D armbands, they went peacefully off to Monsignor Tiernan's Mass at St. Matthew's Church, said in memory of 70-odd comrades who had died in France or since. Said one veteran: "In the old days we used to land somewhere, get in a fight first and then we'd go to Mass. We're getting...
...MATTHEW PENNER...
Samuel Adams, 2nd '49, James N. Athans '51, Philip Bahn '49, Ralph H. Bender '51, Phillips E. Bolster '51, Douglas H. T. Bradlee '50, Samuel C. Butler '51, John T. Coan '49, Walter Coulson '48, Peter M. Matthew '51, Wilbur M. Davis '50, Robert V. DiBlasio '51, Emil J. Drvaric '49, Henry Dunker, Jr. '50, Hugh W. Edmonds '49, George B. Emmons '51, John A. Florentine '50, Melvin Freedman '50, Thomas H. Gannon '50, Ronald F. Garvey '49, Charles R. Glynn '50, George W. Goodrich, Jr. '50, Richard T. Guidera '50. William L. Henry '47 ocC, William K. Hickey...
Good Shepherd. Butler's crusty father, a Church of England canon, intended his son for the ministry. He was outraged when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold...
...surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter's Comet Key West Band turned...