Injured Boy Given Pen
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 19. One of the most treasured possessions of Alan Winton, aged 9, son of the United States naval attache in Wellington, Commander M. J. Winton, is an inscribed goldcoloured pen—a gift from President Johnson. Alan, who was specially allowed out of hospital where he has been recuperating from a fractured skull, suffered in a fall in the Bay of Islands last August, was among the families of the United States Embassy staff who greeted Mr Johnson. “How are you, Alan?" Mr Johnson asked the boy. Alan, overawed by the occasion, said nothing. The President turned away and then back to the boy with the pen in his hand. “Here’s a keepsake,” he said. Alan took the pen and murmured “Thank you.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 1
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