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Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
Colonel Carter is still stumped about how to get autographs of Communist leaders. His copy of the Aug. 1, 1955 cover, with the Big Four of that time-Eisenhower, Eden, Faure and Bulganin-has been signed by the first three men. But, with that prize collection of signatures on it, Colonel Carter doesn't dare send it to Bulganin. Other issues sent behind the Iron Curtain for autographs have not been returned...
Explorer IV went into a 51° orbit on July 26. It carried sophisticated instruments that Van Allen's laboratory had provided to distinguish between "hard" and "soft" radiation, and shielded Geiger counters designed to count radiation intensity at extremely high levels without blacking out. On Aug. 27 the first Argus shot sent man-made electrons zigzagging round the earth. The satellite cut through them back and forth, making about 250 passes before its batteries were exhausted on Sept...
...took Shackleton three more months to get back to his men on Elephant Island. But on Aug. 30, 1916, two years after leaving England, he finally brought his party to safety as he had sworn...
...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...