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...Colonel Robert Brewer, 43, an operations, training and planning officer. Father: Major General (ret.) Carlos Brewer, who taught military science at Purdue University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Family Tradition | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...Colonel Frank B. Clay, 41, senior adviser to the Vietnamese 7th Division, who was slightly wounded last month when Viet Cong bullets ripped through the canopy of his helicopter. Father: General (ret.) Lucius D. Clay. World War II commander and lately President Kennedy's special adviser on Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Family Tradition | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...Major David Bolté, 36, who serves on the headquarters staff of General Paul Harkins, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. Father: General (ret.) Charles Bolté, commander of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division in its sweep through Northern Italy during World War II (two uncles are generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Family Tradition | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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