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Debonair in a silk scarf and herringbone topcoat, and physically not fading at all, General Douglas MacArthur who will be 75 this month, left his 37th-floor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers to commute by limousine to his job in suburban Connecticut. As Remington Rand Inc.'s $68,600-a-year board chairman, MacArthur makes two or three such trips a week. In his fourth year of retirement as a soldier, he is seldom seen, presumably spends much time in the towers with his family and his memories...
...operations, correct their own mistakes, handle office chores that formerly required scores of clerks. They could also solve incredibly complicated technical problems once beyond the scope of even the biggest staffs of engineers. Among 1954's automated strides: ¶G.E., U.S. Steel and Metropolitan Life all started using Remington Rand's $1,000,000 Univac for totting up payrolls, writing checks and figuring costs (estimated first-year savings to G.E.: $500,000). International Business Machines (whose stock rose more than 100 points during the year, to 363) was coming out with a similar machine...
...consider it a great misfortune or a happy occurrence-of spending one term of 16 months at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn., and another of three years at the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, permit me to clarify certain points of your Dec. 6 story on ... William Remington . . . The murder of Remington can be ascribed solely to the misadministration of the various correctional institutions and penitentiaries under the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Beatings, sluggings and murder are the order of the day in Danbury, Lewisburg, Atlanta, Chillicothe, Alcatraz, and wherever the prison system has an establishment. These crimes...
...Remington was convicted of perjury, but a Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the verdict on the technicality that the trial judge's charge to the jury had been vague. Early last year, on the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley, of his divorced wife Ann Moos Remington and others, Remington was found guilty of lying when he denied that he had known of the Young Communist League at Dartmouth and that he had given secrets to Bentley. Between the two trials, Remington remarried; a son was born a month after he started his three-year Lewisburg term in April...
...week's end the murder motive remained unclear. Inevitably, there was talk that Remington had been killed because of his Communist background. Said the Daily Worker: "To shocked humanity it will smell strongly like the jails of Hitler and Mussolini.'' The FBI and Remington's lawyer doubted that politics played the slightest part in the crime...