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College Spirit. In Decatur. Ill., on the 750 pins sold by Alpha Phi Omega fraternity for Millikin University's homecoming celebration, the name of the college was spelled "Millikan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...lead. And what have we proved? I got news for you, Mister; the next time this boy fights to defend anybody's country, it'll damn well be his own." But an officer said: "You seen Seoul? We11.. I'd hate for that to be Decatur, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Taps. In Decatur, Ill., one of the customers whose water service was discontinued for failure to pay the bill was City Waterworks Superintendent Homer Chastain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Advertised. In Decatur, 111., the night after a touring revivalist advertised in the Decatur Herald and Review that his local crusade had "caught fire," his tent burned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Also Ran. In Decatur, Ill., Fireman Henry J. Sturkee gave evidence before the city council to prove that Decatur needs a new fire truck: two boys on bicycles, he said, passed him while he was racing to a fire as fast as the 23-year-old truck would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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