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...mansion on Harrisburg's Front Street, personal tragedy shook his life. His wife, whom he had married in 1939 (she was 19 years his junior), died of brain cancer. Fine moved out of the mansion, and went to live at the governor's summer residence at Indiantown Gap. Mrs. Fine's brother and his wife came to keep house for the governor and help him look after his two sons, Jack, now 11, and Donald, 9. Fine is deeply devoted to the boys, and they to him. One of the reasons for Fine's affection...
Little Shaver. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., 13-year-old Private Robert Young was discharged from the Army after officers noticed that he had no whiskers...
...Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Major General Laurence Keiser, former commander of the 2nd Division, will direct the Infantry Replacement Center at Indiantown Gap, Pa. Major General William B. Kean, former commander of the 25th Division, will command the III Corps at Camp Roberts, Calif...
Nickels & Poets. A big man, Duff is outspoken, disarmingly candid, unaffectedly informal. In Harrisburg, all anyone needs to talk to the governor is a nickel and a pay telephone. At the summer mansion at Indiantown Gap, he putters around the greenhouse and garden, casually returning the waves of passing neighbors. He subscribes to the Manchester Guardian, firmly supports bipartisan foreign policy. His other favorite reading is the seed catalogue and the Elizabethan poets, whom he can quote at length from memory...
...real love is the country and he spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...