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Deshazer was rescued in late August. Recuperating in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, he wrote to his mother, Mrs. Hulda Andrus, a Free Methodist, about his plans for the future. He intends to spend the next four years in theological school; after that he will return to Japan, as a missionary...
...Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
...made little money. But few U.S. couples were happier. They had 52 acres ot land near Memphis, a white cottage, a little herd of dairy cattle. They had four children-a baby girl and three little boys. Both had been raised on the land, both were from plain, churchgoing Methodist families and neither had ever expected life to be different...
...nearby Chicago's Englewood High School, where attendance is some 60% Negro, the race strike was taken up by 800 more. At Chicago's Morgan Park High, a Methodist preacher broke in on a strike rally at a vacant lot, told the students they would be striking against the U.S. Constitution. He talked most of them out of it. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly termed the strikes "prank" stuff. A handful of Chicago civic groups hurriedly put on a city-wide "Youth Rally," starring black & white entertainers (Danny Kaye, "Bojangles" Robinson), to get kids back to class...
...Marine Howard ("Red") Maley helped get Southern Methodist's oldtime aerial circus going again with a 51-0 whitewashing of outclassed Backland A.A.F. The other favorite in the Southwest, Texas, had a threatening mixture of big & little stars - 137-lb. Breakaway-Back Byron Gil-lory and mountainous Tackles (combined weight 525 Ibs.) Harland Wetz and Jim Plyler...