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...friends he has shown remarkable devotion. He has stood by the architect of much of his foreign policy, Dean Acheson, despite the irresponsible attacks by many members of Congress. This loyalty has not always been fortunate, however, as he has retained many of his cronies whose presence has hardly served the cause of honest and efficient government...
Just before World War II, Electus D. Litchfield, a Manhattan architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared...
...really wanted was to paint ("My contentment is founded on creative work"). He joined the Bauhaus group, and with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky (TIME, March 24) became a top apostle of abstract art. "I have to destroy nature," he cried, "before I can build her up again." The architect he took as his model: Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Senate gallery, watching with quiet satisfaction as the peace was ratified, sat the treaty's chief architect, John Foster Dulles. The Republican statesman, who was drafted as special ambassador and adviser by the Democratic Administration to work out the settlement with Japan, feels that his diplomatic job is now done. He is ready to leave the Administration and to speak up, on the side of the Republican opposition, for a more effective U.S. policy...
...Missing Billions. The stormy weather in which the, Maritime Board found itself was not the fault of its present boss, Vice Admiral (ret.) Edward Lull Cochrane. Boss of the Navy's Bureau of Ships during World War II and a crack naval architect, Cochrane became head of the Federal Maritime Board in 1950, when it was set up within the Commerce Department to replace the old Maritime Commission. He has been trying diligently to unscramble its problems ever since...