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Last week, from a stanch old Republican oak with roots deep in the soil of the Midwest, dropped the first rebellious acorn. In his Emporia Gazette, Editor William Allen White attacked Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker resoundingly...
...Five completely equipped bowling alleys, one 60-foot oak bar, 15 portable bars, 25 buffets...
...Mexican organizers wanted a Schmidt telescope, similar in design to the Jewett telescope at the Oak Ridge Station. But war scarcities threatened to interface with their plans...
...Suzy-Q, won his ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself an ace if he were a pursuit pilot. He joined...
...life reads like a picaresque novel. It began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended in a diaper...