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Died. Stanley Myer Isaacs, 79, white-haired political reformer and onetime Republican borough president of Manhattan (1938-41), who later served for 20 years (often as the only Republican) on the New York City Council, earned the bipartisan support of both Democrats and Liberals for his long fight to clean up the city's festering slums; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general likes to start his day at Fort Myer, Va., with a mile and a quarter of "walking." Rinehart tagged along, trying to scribble a note or two on the run. "As we burst out of the cemetery," reported Rinehart, "the general's waiting car was a happy sight for the rest of the trip. When we reached...
...Liberal Union, as yet undecided on its endorsements, plans at least to offer manpower to Rep. William H. Myer...
...duty in the G.I. mess hall at fancy-pants Fort Myer, Va., just across the Potomac from Washington, Pfc. Andrew God Jr. was supposed to be peeling potatoes. But like many a soldier before him on many another potato pile, Soldier God, a Detroit architect before the draft caught him, was fairly hacking the daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded...
Last week word drifted out from Fort Myer about Andrew God's court-martial. The trial had all the trimmings of the customary military tribunal, even a heavily worded bill of specifications: Pfc. Andrew God, 25, "having knowledge of a lawful order ... to peel and eye potatoes as directed, an order which it was his duty to obey, did . . . fail to obey the same. [He] did, without proper authority, willfully suffer potatoes, of some value, military property of the U.S., to be destroyed by improper peeling...