When the Marines’ square-faced, bespectacled Lieut. General Thomas Holcomb, 64, retires on New Year’s Day as commandant of the Corps, he will become a full general, the first in the 168-year ...

Before a House subcommittee last month, Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, unbagged a cat, which set up a muted yowl. The cat: news that the crack-shooting Marine ...