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...parents. But eventually, on the end of a great rubber band that would occasionally snap her back to St. Louis, she returned to Manhattan alone. She worked as a salesgirl at Macy's, a waitress at Childs, wrote constantly. After several years, the Saturday Evening Post accepted the 36th manuscript she had sent them...
EVERY cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner has as byproduct a series of preliminary ink sketches, such as the adjoining one showing Dr. Franklin Clark Fry wading through heavy traffic on Manhattan's East 36th Street near the Lutheran Church House. Dr. Fry remembers it vividly because "I was blocking traffic and everybody in New York City seemed to be honking at me." The final portrait shows Dr. Fry in the pulpit of Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 65th Street and Central Park West. For the story of one of Protestantism's most influential leaders...
...bowl of rice and milk, I'll go get it myself." Alta Faubus shrugged, left, returned with the rice and milk. Faubus wolfed it down, milk dribbling down his chin. Then Orval Eugene Faubus, 36th governor of Arkansas, turned to his guest and belched gustily...
...cork, bottling up the Allies for four months, until the pressure built up by 16 divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue...
...match of the tournament at Sandwich, England. England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...