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...facade; the life behind it is terribly flawed. It was July 5, 1968, when Air Force Lieut. Colonel Carl B. Grumpier, his Phantom jet struck by enemy fire, had to parachute into North Viet Nam. It was almost two years later, in May 1970, that statuesque Mrs. Jane Grumpier, 39, received the first six-line letter from a prison camp. The knowledge that he was alive?there have now been seven letters?helped. "Now I can tell the kids 'When Daddy comes home . . .' rather than 'If Daddy comes home,' " she says...
...Jane Grumpier thought that she had made an acceptable, if dangerous commitment when she married a fighter pilot in 1956, peacetime. But the 22-month period between his last flight and his first letter was a price she had not bargained for. She says widowhood at least has the finality she could learn to accept?"like a dark curtain falling over my life"?but imprisonment with no certain end is not graspable, a half-curtain. The price now, even with the knowledge that her husband is alive, is still too high for her and, she thinks, for the country...
Dead End. In San Diego, James Grumpier rode to the end of a streetcar line, robbed the motorman, escaped, was caught when he boarded the same car to return to town...
When Harold Ickes returned to Washington from his Olympic National Park vacation this fall, he was even grumpier than when he left. Into the records of the Senate Defense Committee last week went a letter which told...
Later Anastasio Somoza addressed Congress, blandly asked it to authorize construction of his canal as a continental defense measure. General Somoza found Congress in a grumpier mood than...