Died. General John Reed Hodge, 70, World War II Pacific combat commander, chief of occupation forces in South Korea (1945-48), a veteran of Guadalcanal, Leyte and Okinawa who found himself trying to organize a democracy in chaotic Korea, where he was instrumental in the rise of Syngman Rhee to the presidency, but then grew disenchanted with Rhee's autocratic ways, whereupon Rhee complained of his meddling in local affairs, and three months later he was recalled; of cancer; in Washington, B.C.
Died. Fritz Reiner, 74, master conductor, a squat, lusty Hungarian with a precise...
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