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...only Negro to become a general officer in the U.S. Army followed in his father's bootsteps. West Pointer (36) Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., director of Operations and Training for the Far East Air Force, was made the first Negro general of the Air Force, 14 years after General Davis Sr. had made the grade. Said his proud father, now 77 and retired: "It took me 41 years to make it. My son took 18. That's as it should be. If my boy can't do better than I did, I'd feel that...
Died. Brigadier General Paul Thomas ("Pete") Carroll, 44, White House staff secretary; of a heart ailment; in Washington. A battalion commander under Dwight Eisenhower in World War II, handsome West Pointer Carroll served Ike in a variety of posts after the war (e.g., as top aide at SHAPE), after the inauguration became the President's chief liaison officer with the Pentagon before taking over as staff secretary...
...West Pointer (class of '15), "Doodle" Harmon comes from a distinguished family of soldiers. His father was the commandant of cadets at what is now the Pennsylvania Military College, and one of his brothers was Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, who, as wartime commander of the Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1945. In World War I, young Doodle served as an aviator in France; in World War II, he commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific. Later he served as senior Air Force member on the U.N.'s Military and Naval...
Died. Major General Frank Ross McCoy, 79, "America's soldier-diplomat," who became a troubleshooter for Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Hoover; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. West Pointer McCoy emerged from World War I a medal-covered brigadier. As competent in striped pants as in uniform, McCoy roamed the world on diplomatic missions for the White House, helped set up the Cuban and Philippine governments, fed the "starving Armenians" in 1919, ran Nicaraguan elections, wound up his long career in 1949, when he decided that four years on the Far Eastern Commission were "long enough for . . . that...
...West Pointer Reber would not have it so. In a voice thick with emotion, he asked to be allowed to answer the "very serious charge" made against his brother. After another long argument, Reber said simply: ". . . As I understand my brother's case, he retired, as he is entitled to do by law, upon reaching the age of 50 ... I know nothing about any security case involving him." With a sigh of relief, Chairman Mundt dismissed Reber, thanking him for his frank manner-a remark to which McCarthy, who seemed determined to resent any civility, made a formal objection...