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...blue and white banner reading "Welcome Jim Sewell" was stretched across the front of R. S. High's insurance office in Blooming Grove, Texas (pop. 821). Jim Sewell couldn't read the words, but he could sense what was going...
...grew up in around Blooming Grove, was on the U.S.S. Hornet in Manila Bay in 1944 when an unreleased bomb on an incoming plane exploded. A fragment struck him in the head, injured the optic nerve, left him almost totally blind...
...Lowell House and Brookline, as Secretaroy; David L. Conn., as Treasurer; Laurence D. Stifel '52, of Lowll House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, as publicity director; Helmut F. Furth '52, of Dunster House and Washington, D.C., as solicitations chairman; and Daniel L. Ritchie '54, of Mower Hall and China Grove, NC., as yard chairman...
Commander at Work. Van Fleet, who got word of his new job while he was on leave at his brother's Florida orange grove took over his new command at a few hours' notice; but he quickly sized up the Eighth Army and its strategic and tactical situation. Last week, while conferring with a regimental commander on the battlefront, Van Fleet pointed with his big forefinger to a terrain feature on the map. "Is your second battalion still in this position?" he asked the colonel. The officer looked astonished at the Army commander's detailed knowledge, then...
...morning last week at exactly 10:04, 200 people enjoying their favorite sport in a California orange grove were interrupted by the sudden arrival of Captain Walker Hannon and 13 deputies from the Los Angeles sheriff's office. The sportsmen fled wildly through the trees, but the sheriff's men rounded up 23 men, two old women selling sandwiches, a small boy who had dropped by "to have some fun," and 40 chickens, including Six-to-One Frank, Five-to-Three Vero and Even-Money Ason, three champion fighting cocks...