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...week had about as many Springfields as Garands in service but was substituting Garands as fast as production [about 700 a day] permitted.) Since the Army adopted the Garand, the Marine Corps has been under pressure to do the same. (See TIME's photo-essay on the timeless, ubiquitous AK...
Elected King of Ak-Sar-Ben ("Nebraska" backwards) at Omaha's fall festival was bald, bulging William Martin Jeffers, 50 years ago a Union Pacific roundhouse callboy, since 1937 Union Pacific's president...
Despite the weather, the party was a huge success. The publicity paradise reached seventh heaven at Ak-Sar-Ben's coliseum, where 8,000 funsters unanimously nominated Gracie for President. Making her acceptance speech, Candidate Allen squirmed uncomfortably, kept tugging at her hips, finally blurted: "My girdle is killing...
...Call (C) '39 Lowell L. C. Clark '41 Lowell, c. c., H. A. Burgess '40 Leverett D. S. Grey '40 Kirkland, r.g. r.g., R. S. Eustis, Jr. '41 Winthrop P. G. Counlhan '39 Adams, r.t. r.t., M. Thurston '40 Lowell J. M. Koufman '41 Dudley, r.e. r.e., G. Ak'ra'n, Jr. '40 Adams R. S. Prarlo '39 Ellot q.b. q.b., M. J. Gordon '41 Lowell R. E. Lewis '40 Lowell, l.h. l.h., R. H. Weller '40 Winthrop W. H. Whitman, Jr. '39 Adams, r.h. r.h., J. F. McClure '39 Kirkland Q. W. Balley, Jr. '40 Dunster...
Blind horses are a burden on their owners : like some blind people, they develop neuroses, become hesitant and suspicious, refuse to move about. They are usually "destroyed." Last week the Horse Show committee of Nebraska's famed Ak-Sar-Ben celebration brought to Omaha for a personal appearance a blind horse named Elmer Gantry, who was remarkable not simply because he was still alive but also because he had been taught to jump...