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...George Edward Buxton, 68, who helped found the American Legion in Paris 30.years ago (along with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Bennett Champ Clark and William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan); of a heart attack; in Providence, R.I. As a World War I battalion commander, Buxton persuaded Alvin C. York,* sometime conscientious objector, that a man could fight his country's enemies and still be a good Christian. In World War II, Textile Tycoon Buxton served as assistant director of the cloak & dagger O.S.S...
...ceremonies Thursday and Friday went off without a hitch, according to Miss Braverman, who reported that no student refused to pay the compulsory $5.75 fee levied on all girls. Last year, one objector protested for several weeks to student and faculty officers before she paid...
...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...
...Wales last fortnight, a routine church commission report denounced the immoral influence of the movies. But one anonymous commission member filed a minority opinion that was anything but routine. Wrote the objector...
Rolled & Wrapped. When the postwar maritime strikes erupted last year, however, the union was horrified to discover a more basic change in ex-picket Charley Ross-as True Knowledge, he was a conscientious objector to strikes. He not only refused to picket, but did not turn up for alternative jobs-working in soup kitchens, handing out pamphlets or working on a sick committee. After the strike was over he was kicked out of the union by the picketing committee...