Doug Kenna is dead

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    Edgar Douglas "Doug" Kenna II, the quarterback of West Point's 1944 undefeated national championship team and former president of the National Association of Manufacturers, has died. He was 88.

    Kenna died Jan. 28 in North Palm Beach, Fla., where he had lived for years, according to Nicholas Hollis, a longtime friend who worked with him at the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1970s. Howard-Price Funeral Home in North Palm Beach confirmed his death.

    Kenna will be buried Monday at Lakewood Memorial Park in Jackson, Miss. A memorial service is May 13 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

    Hollis said Kenna had the same precision in business that made him a championship quarterback, calling him "a real American giant."

    "You'd have to see him walk into a room. Leadership is hard to define, but he was leadership personified," Hollis said.

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