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...scene is a muddy grove of trees in Italy. The characters: a group of inarticulate U.S. citizens who have been sent overseas to fight the war. They are on the eve of their first battle. With them is New York Times man C. L. Sulzberger...
Sight Unseen. In Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant William Eller made a parachute landing in a clump of trees, discovered that the grove was camouflage for a concrete runway. He survived...
...offices in Canada, Australia, India, New York (today the independently managed U.S. house alone has a yearly turnover of ten million dollars). Soon Macmillan's educational series served the world; its school "readers" appeared in Afrikaans, Swahili, Arabic, Anglo-Chinese and various Indian dialects. Massive works such as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians appeared, as well as such famed series as the English Men of Letters and Great English Churchmen. Two magazines were founded, Macmillan's and Nature, and to this day Nature is Britain's most honored scientific periodical...
Daniel R. Shields, of Kirkland House and Sugar Grove, Illinois, was chosen Class Secretary, and Blaise F. Alfano, of Kirkland House and Roslindale, received the post of Treasurer. Six additional then were chosen as members of the permanent Class Committee: Donald J. Blake, of Kirkland House and Rochester, New York; Thomas A. Caldwell, Jr., of Kirkland House and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lawrence Creshkoff, of Eliot House and Philadelphia; Robert M. Hart, of Eliot House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., of Kirkland House and Weston; and Richard L. Warren, of Eliot House and Rockton, Illinois...
...curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered a medical miracle. The young fireman was burned on 75 to 80% of his body, and lived...