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...been absent from the White House for 64 of the 96 days since Congress adjourned last August. *Ellis Slater, president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.; George Allen, Washington lawyer and friend of Presidents; Colonel Thomas Belshe (ret.), former Army pal; and their wives...
...Million's top echelon is studded with big, even distinguished, names. Lieut. General (ret.) George Stratemeyer, Korean war Air Force commander, is chairman of the national organization. Among the vice chairmen are General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet; Admiral (ret.) William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations and Ambassador to Russia; Lieut. General (ret.) Pedro A. del Valle, commander of the 1st Marine Division at Okinawa; and Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey...
...overall director of the department of health, Craig imported Rear Admiral (ret.) Bertram Groesbeck Jr., former commanding officer of the famous Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. As the state's first commissioner of mental health, Craig picked an unlikely looking candidate: a handsome, 41-year-old blonde with grey-green eyes, Dr. Margaret Elaine Morgan, a topnotch Indiana psychiatrist. Governor Craig was not deterred by the fact that her brother, Ivan H. ("Jack") Morgan, was feuding with him in G.O.P. councils (he has since booted the brother out of party office, kept the sister on at a higher...
...Ordered the Navy icebreaker Atka to Antarctica on an expedition to collect scientific and geographic data. Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 65-year-old polar explorer, will serve as technical adviser, although it has not been decided whether he will accompany the expedition...
Died. Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, U.S.N. ret., 76, twice (1934-36, 1939-42) president of the Naval War College, organizer in 1941 of the $100 million Newport Naval Base; of leukemia; in Newport...