Word: hometowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Don Gentile, ace fighter pilot (TIME, April 28), on furlough in his hometown, Piqua, Ohio, found the one: pretty Isabel Masdea. Said he: "She's the girl I love...
Mark Clark's years at West Point were not distinguished. He was nicknamed "Opie," because one Sunday his classmates found him pining for his hometown comic papers, so he could follow the adventures of a character described as "Opie Dillydock." The General has said that his main objective as a student was "graduating." He did well in history and philosophy, not so well in mathematics. In the class of April 20, 1917, he stood in among 139. From commencement he entered the sterner school of World War I. He sailed for France as a captain of infantry. In action...
Bendetsen, with a Stanford law degree, a reserve lieutenancy and an interest in radio and aviation, was practicing law in his Aberdeen, Wash, hometown in 1939 when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last...
This vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also, his wife was about to have a baby...