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...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
...Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels-at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.-now used as redistribution centers for soldiers returning from battle. Last week the Army got started on two more centers. For Negro troops, it took over the Hotel Pershing on the border of Chicago's Negro district, got ready to move into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem...
...personally picked, alltime, all-star team: George Sisler, "the greatest first baseman ever" (now a Brooklyn Dodgers scout); Eddie Collins, second base (Boston Red Sox general manager); Frank ("Home Run") Baker, third base (Maryland farmer); Honus Wagner, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates coach); Bill Dickey, catcher (U.S. Navy); Lefty Grove, pitcher (Maryland coupon clipper); Walter Johnson, pitcher (Maryland farmer); Tris Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher, who failed to get leave, and Ty Cobb, left field, who wired from his California retirement...
...story in war-especially in combat involving aircraft. But few officers of such high rank have died that way. Most memorable accident in U.S. military history: the death of General Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson, who was shot by his North Carolinians as he galloped at dusk through a grove of trees at Chancellorsville...
...first rickety tracks followed the old Santa Fe wagon and cattle trail, west from Topeka through Council Grove, Dodge City, across the muddy Arkansas River and into New Mexico. There were few passengers and not much freight until the West grew. But the West grew. And the West is still growing. Railroader Gur ley expects the Santa Fe to keep up with...