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...many D.C. Comics like Superman or Batman--they're geared for kids." Occasionally, his despotism provokes unrest among the Quincy House kulaks. A suggestion book in the library contains the following note, signed "Fidel": "Keep our comic book library up to date with new issues of Sergeant Rock. He only shows up with a new issue sporadically. We need our blood and guts on a regular basis." Another note in the book is more terse: "We need new Sgt. Rock comics...
Your American Scene article about Colonel Robert Shaw and the black regiment serving in the Civil War [April 6] failed to mention Sergeant William H. Carney. Carney was a black soldier in Shaw's 54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...
...demands of normal life. Most of the returnees and their families had resented all this gloomy guessing; some also resented the State Department's continued concern about their mental readjustment. "I feel they're watching us so we can be the subject of a paper," complained Army Sergeant Donald Hohman, of West Sacramento, Calif. "I don't want to be a case study." Said Richard Morefield of San Diego about the Government therapists: "They were prepared for basket cases, and that was only prudent. But I think that what they're going to learn is that...
Many of the returned Americans have already resumed their diplomatic or military careers. Of the nine Marines released in January, only one, Sergeant Rodney Sickmann of Washington, Mo., has accepted the offer of an early discharge. Embassy Chargé d' Affaires L. Bruce Laingen rebuffs reports that he will run for public office. "He'd be good at it," said his wife Penelope. "But how could I leave the foreign service?" he countered. Richard Queen, of Lincolnville, Me., whose multiple sclerosis is in indefinite remission, is back at a State Department desk in Washington while awaiting a prized...
...assailants forced the woman at knifepoint into her car, which was parked on Grant St. near the DeWolfe St. intersection between 7:30 and 8 p.m. They dropped her off by Memorial Drive and Mass Ave at midnight. Cambridge sergeant Albert Haves said yesterday...