Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local stations of some 200 small towns had literary stimulants to dispense last week. Author Meets the Critics, a two-year-old weekly feature on Manhattan's WHN, will henceforth be heard on records in Opelika, Ala., Tucumcari, N.Mex., many another village out of earshot of the big networks...
Society of Jesus Spring Hill, Ala...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala. hospital, a sick-looking boy slowly knots a tufted bathmat. "Well," says he, "they talked me into it." In the gymnasium a muscular Negro happily plays basketball while his attendant waits (only a couple of weeks ago, he had to be held down by five men to be forcibly fed). Outside, other NPs (neuropsychiatric patients) and men with the new scars of plastic surgery drill with 50-lb. dumbbells...
...signal officer on the old carrier Wasp when she was ferrying planes to Malta, in the early days of the war, and was aboard her when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal in 1942. As fighter pilots go, veteran David McCampbell is an elderly man: he was born in Bessemer, Ala. 34 years...
...corpsmen dropped. He had been shot between the eyes. The other corpsman, Chief Pharmacist's Mate Reeder Parker of Lexington, Ala., told the rest of the story to New York Timesman George Home: The wounded marine . . . was heart broken: "I'm sorry he got it trying to get me back. It's no use taking me because I'm dying anyhow." The wounded man and the young corps man could go no farther without help. Parker sat down beside the marine, whose life was ebbing. The marine prayed for the man who had died...