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Leonard Marks, Jr., Martin V. Marsh Powell Niland, and Donald R. Sch have been promoted to Assistant Professors of Business Administration W. Francis L. Foster and S. Leonard K are new Assistant Professors of Reseals in Business Administration...
...little before 11 o'clock in the still hot morning, an elderly Western Union messenger climbed the steps to the red-bricked sun porch of a bungalow in Tonawanda, N.Y., and pressed the bell. Mrs. Michael C. Niland was busy with the housework when she heard...
...Niland, a stout, calm woman who is "Stumpy" to her four boys, signed the messenger's pad, opened the telegram. It was from Adjutant General Ulio, and it read: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender his deep sympathy to you on the loss of your son Preston...
...hands trembled. Lieut. Preston Niland, missing since June 7 in the Normandy invasion, was only one of her soldier sons on the Army's casualty list. Still carried as missing were sons Edward (a bomber gunner in Burma) and Robert (a sergeant with the paratroopers in Normandy...
Five days later another messenger came. It was 7:30 in the evening. The supper dishes had been washed; Mr. & Mrs. Niland were in the living room with their two daughters and Preston's fiancée, Dorothy Frey. Daughter Clarissa Marie answered the doorbell while the group in the living room sat still. Again the words "The Secretary of War . . . sympathy on the loss of your son Robert...