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Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown & Bige-low); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An adventurer in his youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company...
...candidate for stars while his second lieutenant's gold bars were still shiny. After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936. Scholarly, warm, modest, he quickly earned a name for getting things done, and in May 1941 Major Lemnitzer was assigned to the War Department's War Plans Division. He was a brigadier general in September 1942, when he joined General Dwight Eisenhower as assistant chief of staff in charge...
...dividend of such upgrading: effective March 2, it will close down its disciplinary barracks for military prisoners at New Cumberland, Pa. After that, owing to a sharp decline in courts-martial (to a monthly rate of 18.2 per 100,000 soldiers from 54.1 in 1956), only two prisons (Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and Lompoc, Calif.) will operate, where two years ago five were needed...
...Only nation not voting: the Dominican Republic. Since Playboy "Ramfis" Trujillo, the dictator's son, was refused a diploma from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, the Dominican Republic has had the sulks over everything American (presumably including the U.N. because it is in New York...
...Ciudad Trujillo, Rafael Trujillo Sr. stayed in bad temper over his son's repeated setbacks. Having promoted Junior to chairman of the Dominican Joint Chiefs of Staff just after the boy flunked at Fort Leavenworth, the dictator followed up by calling home all 30 Dominicans who were studying at U.S. military establishments. He threatened to end all military and aid pacts with the U.S.. including the one under which the U.S. runs a missile-tracking station in the Dominican Republic. He sniffed that since the Army Command and General Staff College has become a "political tool," its diploma...