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Eleven years passed. Then, last summer, the bank missed four ledger cards. Orville asked George if he knew where they had gone. George-being George-confessed his crime immediately. He settled up. But Orville-being Orville-fired him forthwith, and reported the crime. George pleaded guilty in federal court...
...Word. In Chicago, after ex-G.I. James C. Mazza had received disability payments for seven years for a service injury which made him mute, he broke his silence to tell Veterans Administration officials that he was improving, was forthwith turned over to the Justice Department...
...shortly proved that he had vast aptitude as a soldier. He finished at V.M.I, in May 1917, volunteered for the Marine Corps, spent one month in training at Parris Island, and was shipped forthwith to France as a second lieutenant, to help erect-although he did not know it then- a milestone in Marine Corps history. Marines had fought in every sort of battle-as riflemen in the tops of sailing vessels, as landing parties and assault units against every sort of foe, from the British at Trenton and Princeton to the Boxers in Peking. But in France they fought...
...last week. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, using Judge Streit's files, decided that Rupp had another comeuppance last week. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, using Judge Streit's files, decided that Rupp had 1) knowingly used ineligible players, and 2) condoned cash payments to his stars. Forthwith the N.C.A.A. cracked down, barred Kentucky's basketball team from intercollegiate N.C.A.A. play for one year. Kentucky accepted the ban, but had a sassy answer for the N.C.A.A.: a vote of confidence in Rupp, who stays on as Kentucky's coach...
...committeeman punched a Democratic poll watcher in the nose. In Seattle an old man who had waited in line for three hours was told that he had forgotten to register. He began to weep. "This," he sobbed, "is my last time." The crowd yelled: "Let him vote." He registered forthwith, voted and said happily: "I thank...