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Surprised were the parents of John F. Ballard '40 of Eliot House and Milton when they learned that their son would sail for France next month to join the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps...
Admitting that he had often talked of volunteering because his prospects of getting a job after graduation seemed slim, they didn't believe that he would actually sign up. "Glamour is responsible for my son's desire to drive an ambulance," Mrs. Ballard said...
Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...
...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...