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Died. Brigadier General Frederick S. Foltz, 94, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime Indian fighter, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '79); in Washington. Shortly after his graduation. Foltz, an outstanding rider and marksman, commanded troops stationed on the Canadian border to prevent hostile Indians from escaping into Canada...
American Vegetarian. For President, Brigadier General Herbert C. Holdridge (ret..); for Vice President, Symon Gould, a N.Y. rare-book dealer. The party is firmly pacifist and opposes the slaughter of "any living thing." "We believe," says Gould, "women should be childbearing instead of fur-bearing." The Vegetarians don't want to get on any ballot. "The only good parties are those that don't get on the ballot." says Gould. "If we got into office, we'd probably be like the Republicans and the Democrats. Only thing they have is power. And you know about power. Breeds...
...welts when assisted by its enemies. Thanks to such help last week from an army that advanced too quickly and a general who retreated too easily-the Worker raised a big welt. It had smeared a Republican candidate for Congress right off the ballot. Brigadier General Elliott R. Thorpe (ret.), General MacArthur's wartime counter-intelligence chief) announced that he was "shocked and depressed," and as a result withdrew as a Republican candidate for Congress from Rhode Island...
...full head of steam. Its first director, Gordon Gray, resigned after six months; he was succeeded by Raymond B. Allen, who took the job on a temporary basis, is quitting after 8½ months. Last week, the board got its third skipper-Admiral Alan G. Kirk, U.S.N. (ret...
Died. Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell (ret.), 74, veteran of the Philippines and St. Mihiel (1918), who directed relief in Russia and the Balkans during the famines that followed World War I, and ran unsuccessfully (in 1943) as Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York; after long illness; in Greenwich, Conn...