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...each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled up by 30,000 boys in 16,000 communities, nearly 60% of which have a population of 2,500 or less. Some former GnYboys: Poet Carl Sandburg, General Alfred M. Gruenther, South Dakota's Senator Francis Case...
Turning to 1960 Republican presidential possibilities, Dewey saw Vice President Richard Nixon as a "superb" candidate. He protested that this was no presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...
...General Marshall, just retired, called him back to duty as an aide on his special presidential mission to China. Back on the job for TIME-LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau, made the world his beat. If he was not flying the Atlantic with General Alfred M. Gruenther, Shepley might be fishing with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, or on a safari in Africa with the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay (for a LIFE picture story), or developing a far-reaching story on U.S. world policy...
...hunt'began as long ago as last fall, and the big possibility was General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, the President's old Chief of Staff and president of the Red Cross. But feelers put out by the White House indicated that Congress was not too happy about having a retired general as Defense Secretary, and. anyway, Al Gruenther was not too anxious to get back into Government harness. Next man up was John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, who did a thorough job as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) in 1953-54; he could...
Alfred M. Gruenther LL.D...