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...delighted, but not surprised, to read in "Young Man's Game" (TIME, Feb. 14) that "Sinsel didn't give up an inch." The Major Chick Sinsel referred to is my cousin, Major Frank Callaway Sinsel. He has been recommended twice for the Legion of Merit. The papers are rightfully filled with stories of first and second generation Americans fighting bravely for their country. But the Major's family has been fighting for this country since the first Callaway landed in Virginia in the middle of the 17th Century. His great-great-grandfather, a Virginia colonel of cavalry...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...
...only hotel, the Sidwell (Sleep well at the Sidwell), had been taken weeks before. First-comers moved peacefully into the private homes of Elwood, renting the rooms as the homeowners slept on the living-room floor or out on the grass in the backyard. Late arrivals drove straight to Callaway Park, where the speech was to be delivered, to be on hand for good seats in the morning, to sleep safely under blankets, under the maples, the beeches, the oaks, the bright Indiana moon...
Appearance. At 5 a.m. there were 5,000 people in Callaway Park. At 9 a.m. 20,000 of the 30,000 seats were taken. An hour later, when the heat of the day began, the crowd had grown to 60,000, though the speech was still seven hours away. Downtown the special trains were unloading at the Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania stations; the crowd shuffled through sweltering side streets into the river of humanity that filled Elwood's main Anderson Street from curb to curb-a river that emptied, after a crooked mile, into the surging sea at Callaway...
...dust on the temporary dirt road to Callaway Park blotted out everything three cars ahead. When the band struck up Back Home in Indiana as he appeared, the crowd made the trees shake with their racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered...