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Died. John Steven McGroarty, 81, one time Congressman, so-called "Poet Laureate" of California; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The outstanding Congressional spokesman for the Townsend Old-Age Plan, he turned out much topical verse. Sample (from a rhapsodic paean to Mrs. Roosevelt) : "What seeks the Lady Eleanor...
...slogan has been jobs for the young and security for the old [a guarded endorsement of the Townsend plan helped elect him in 1938] . . . but I'll be damned if I'm going to assure young people about jobs and the old about security when the Government can't provide them...
Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, only child of Philadelphia's former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France William Christian Bullitt; and Army Staff Sergeant Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend, 23, of Philadelphia, a 1942 Yale graduate; in a surprise ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md. In October 1943 her father announced her engagement to Marine Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr. of Brooklandville, Md. Mr. Bullitt's comment on the marriage: "What...
...Navy Recreation Camps are operating and are open for weekend groups. To date, the WAVES and the men of the Greater Boston area have taken advantage of the opportunity of going to the camps at West Townsend, Mass., and Suncook, N. H., the girls out-numbering the men for these trips. Any Navy personnel in the district may plan to spend time at either of the camps, where ice-skates, snowshoes, skis and bob-sieds are there for the use of all. Hiking is a favorite sport at the camps while table tennis and many other games are enjoyed...
Died. Charles Haskins Townsend, 84, famed zoologist and arctichthyologist, for 35 years director of the New York Aquarium; in Miami, Fla. He was credited with having saved three varieties of rare "critters" (his invariable term) from extinction: the giant Galapagos tortoise, the Alaskan reindeer, the fur seal...