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...private on the first table had been wounded only slightly. Dr. Howard Johnson of Uniontown, Pa. was rubbing sulfanilamide powder into a hole about the size of a quarter in the boy's left arm. The marine on another table had his face covered. The doctor examining him said to Dr. Silvis: "I think we had better send him to the Corps Medical Battalion. They are better fixed to diagnose eye cases. It looks like this fellow will lose one or maybe both his eyes...
Flicker. In the streets of Uniontown, Pa., where he was born 63 years ago, George Marshall was known as "Flicker." (Ever since, his natural dignity has repelled nicknames - while the first-naming President calls Admiral King "Ernie," he always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th...
...captive mine region around Uniontown, Pa., where coking coal is dug for nearby mills that own the mines, Lewis' order did not stick. First at Brownsville, then at Uniontown, groups of miners worked against union officials who were trying to get them back into the pits. When local election on the question brought a mixed result, self-appointed pickets roved from shaft to shaft, arguing, pleading, jeering at the returning workers, Thus, at the height of the outlaw strike, 24,000 miners were idle, cutting production a daily average of 200,000 tons for 18 days. Since this type...
Light on Farms Sirs: In TIME, Aug. 14 is a letter from Mr. R. Wallace Brewster of Uniontown, Pa. in which the writer says, "In our country, where many of electricity's greatest uses have been invented . . . . only one-fifth of the farms are electrified. Compared with the so-called 'backward' European nations in which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas...
...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...