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Albert Woolson was only 17 when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over-and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
...life. Almost from the beginning, businessmen began complaining that the slots were siphoning money away from legitimate channels of trade. Doctors & dentists began having trouble collecting their bills. Restaurant owners said that slotclubs were luring away their customers with 79? steaks, and luring away the customers' money afterward. As a result, in rapid and indignant succession, Idaho's bigger cities began banning slot machines...
...swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge. "I didn't know if they understood German," he explained afterward. "But there was one language they did understand." He jabbed a pistol into Mardin's back and snapped, "Stop the ship...
...inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...
Between numbers the packed hall resounded to roars and whistles of approval and the stamping of teen-age feet. Afterward, it took the performers 45 minutes to fight their way through the ecstatic crowd outside. For U.S. Jazz Impresario Norman Granz, it was a comfortably reassuring beginning for his second annual invasion of Europe with his package show, "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In the next ten weeks, he and his musical tourists expect to put on much the same kind of program - and get the same kind of flat tering attention - in such cities as Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Zurich...