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Southern Hospitality. In Pennington Gap, Va., at the dedication of the new Lee County jail, Carpenter Lee Maness, the first workman on the building, over-celebrated, became its first inmate...
...bulkhead door between control and after-battery rooms stood Electrician's Mate Lloyd Maness, whom his shipmates called "a swell little guy." As the Squalus sank Maness tugged at the heavy door, which, because of the ship's angle, had to be swung uphill. His job was to shut that door. He had it almost closed when voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down...
...except Dean Miller had known for two years, namely, that he was a ringer almost 30 years old passing under an assumed name. Year before he entered college he had attended Urban Military Academy, a U. C. L. A. "farm," where he played under the name of "Tex" Maness. When he registered at U. C. L. A.. Key "confessed" to Dean Miller that his real name was not "Tex" Maness, but "Ted" Key. The Dean duly reported this irregularity to Pacific Coast Conference authorities, pleading clemency for the boy. Only penalty meted out to Key was ineligibility...