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...speaker is Lt. Bob Hackett '48, now Standish Hall freshman back from the wars. Holder of the Purple Heart, instructor of horsemanship at Fort Riley and polo player par-excellence, he was commissioned as the youngest cavalry officer in he history of the U. S. Army back in the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Veteran of Libyan Campaign Surprised at Over-optimism in America | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

From Mayor Earl Riley, of Portland, Ore., we recently received the following communication: "This office has been advised by the Ninth Service Command that your son ... is expected home on furlough sometime this month. If at any time during his leave I can be of help to him or to you in making his visit pleasant, please let me know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Bette Davis, vacationing in Columbus, Ga., spiked rumors that she had come South to marry her "very old friend," Corporal Louis Riley, peacetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, now stationed at nearby Fort Benning. The once divorced, once widowed cinemactress gave a party for the Corporal, invited his entire company, later said: "I am a woman of 36 and I have sense enough to announce it if I intend to get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Hardy Perennial. In Dublin, Ind., 75-year-old Riley A. Laymon and his 33-year-old wife had their third child in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Home Is the Hoosier | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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