Word: middleburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aware that 65 million Americans had no professed church affiliation, Dr. Gockel aimed his nonsectarian show at "the great unchurched-they are our potential customers." The first shows were a serialized morality play about Druggist Carl Fisher of Middleburg, U.S.A., a sort of male Ma Perkins whose soda-fountain stools spun with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern...
...Making him one of three quadruple amputees of the Korean war. The other two (also wounded in the Changjin Reservoir area and victims of the bitter cold): Army Pfc. Robert L. Smith, 20, Middleburg, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 8); Marine Sergeant Werner Reininger, 22, San Antonio, Texas...
Without protest, hard-bitten photographers put down their cameras, as attendants gently lifted down a stretcher and loaded it into a waiting ambulance. On it, swathed to his neck in heavy G.I. blankets, lay Pfc. Robert L. Smith, a 20-year-old soldier from Middleburg, Pa., who had suffered as grievously as a man could and still live. He was the first quadruple amputee of the Korean war.* Both hands were amputated, one leg was amputated at the knee, the other slightly below...
Eleven Days. Brown-haired, likeable Bob Smith had been in the Army only since last April. He had joined because he was fed up with his hand-to-mouth life in Middleburg: his father had died when he was nine, his mother was on relief, and Bob Smith-the youngest of five kids-had had to quit school when he was in the tenth grade to take a job as spinner in a Middleburg silk mill...
Eliot House residents recently named Thomas F. Cavanaugh, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, C. Oliver Iselin, Ill, of Middleburg, Virginia, and Donald H. Kaplan, of Howitt, New York, as senior representatives on the House Committee...