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Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
Pegged as a comer, Ike was yanked away to serve as chief of staff to General Walter Krueger's Third Army in the big Louisiana Maneuvers in the fall of 1941. There he handled the movements of 270,000 men so brilliantly that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made...
...many executives, however, the problem of relaxation is less a matter of physical exertion than the art of switching mental energy from office problems to equally absorbing outside diversions. "It's a question of substituting one set of problems for another," says Dr. Paul A. Krueger, development director for a St. Louis chemical company, who sloughs off business worries after hours as a city councilman in suburban Ferguson, Mo. More and more businessmen are finding painting an outlet for nervous energy. Eight Manhattan executives play in their own dance band. Across the U.S., businessmen's pastimes range from...
...Bureau of Prisons estimates that the Tamm ruling could free at least 50 persons who, like Mrs. Covert, were civilians overseas with the armed forces and therefore beyond the reach of the U.S. civil courts at the time they committed their crimes. Among these is Mrs. Dorothy Krueger Smith (daughter of General Walter Krueger, Sixth Army commander in the Pacific during World War II), who is now serving a life sentence for the murder in Japan of her husband, Colonel Aubrey D. Smith...
Exhibit A. In San Pedro, Calif., Carl Krueger, 58, was acquitted of charges of shoplifting and eating a chewy candy bar after he bared his five teeth to the jury, revealed that no two of them...