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...four letters of support that President Nixon read during his television address was written by Virginia Jones, 42, a widowed schoolteacher from Woodbury, N.J., who had missed a scheduled pay raise because of the freeze. While the President was quoting Mrs. Jones, she was listening to another speech: George Krajewski was proposing marriage to her in front of the TV set, which was turned off. Mrs. Jones accepted. Krajewski, a foreman at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, gave her a diamond ring midway through the President's peroration, and she never heard herself quoted. "I told the President I would...
Died. Henry Krajewski, 54, the Secaucus, N.J., pig farmer who wanted to be President, in 1949 formed his own Poor Man's Party and got himself on the New Jersey ballot in 1952, 1956 and 1960, campaigning with a wiggling porker under his arm and the slogan "No piggy deals in Washington," also ran for other offices in other years, never polling many votes, but once, in 1954, being credited with taking enough ballots (his vote: 35,241) away from the Democrats to help give Republican Clifford Case his first U.S. Senate victory; of a heart attack; in Secaucus...
...Fight. In Secaucus, N.J., Tavern Owner Henry Krajewski launched his second consecutive bid for the U.S. presidency, announced the main plank in his 1956 campaign platform: annexation of Canada...
Poor Man's. For President, Henry Krajewski, Secaucus, N. J. pig farmer and tavern owner (TIME, March 17); for Vice President, Frank Jenkins of Rahway, N. J. Krajewski-whose campaign buttons read "For President Krajewski I Like"-has gotten his ticket on only one state ballot (New Jersey...
...lots of room and air. In Secaucus the pigs get garbage, from New York's best restaurants, and are as tightly packed together as the customers at these restaurants. How Governor Driscoll and the forces of daintiness would deal with the problem remained to be seen. Meanwhile, Henry Krajewski had the last word. "Now the smell is in the ground," he said, not without a note of triumph. "They'll never...