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Died. Captain Alfred Hart Miles, U.S.N. (ret.), 72, co-author (with Royal Lovell, Charles A. Zimmerman)_ of the Annapolis song Anchors Aweigh; in a fall at his home; in Norfolk...
Died. Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N.R. (ret.), 57, literary journeyman who wrote some 20 children's books, headed the team that compiled the six-volume World War II naval history. Battle Report, tossed off bestselling novels (Zotzl, Lower Than Angels); of cancer; in Bethesda...
...Lieut. General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, 52, was named chairman of Los Angeles' Topp Industries, Inc. (estimated annual sales: $5,000,000), which specializes in research-manufacture of electronic and automated devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performance-a characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company...
...HAZLETT JR. Captain, U.S.N. (Ret.) Forest Hills...
Died. Admiral Charles Turner Joy, U.S.N., ret., 61. chief U.N. negotiator of the Korean War truce talks at Panmunjom from July 1951 to May 1952, onetime (1949-52) commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, 37th superintendent (1952-54) of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, author (How Communists Negotiate); of leukemia: in San Diego. To Admiral Joy, the three-year Korean conflict was a tragic "holy war" which the U.N., by failing to press its advantages, lost to the Communists...