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...Therefore be it resolved that the Stoughton Post of the V.F.W. condemn the abusive and insulting treatment of General Zwicker by Senator McCarthy and [express] its gratitude to [Zwicker] for the valiant service he has rendered on the battlefield against the enemies of our democracy...
...Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...
...addition to his week-by-week stories, it was Dowling's job in the three years to send in battlefield background for three TIME cover stories: Generals De Lattre and Navarre of Indo-China, General Templer of Malaya...
Born in his grandfather's farmhouse on the battlefield of Antietam ("The battle was over, of course"), Snavely entered Johns Hopkins University at 15, eventually wound up with a Ph.D. in Romance languages. In 1937, after serving as president of Birmingham-Southern College, he took the top administrative post of A.A.C. Since then, A.A.C.'s membership has grown from 495 to over 702-and its influence has grown accordingly...
Hansen was not concerned with such trivia. Said he: "To ask me to perpetrate, on the battlefield at Yorktown, a composition in sculpture bastardized according to the collective idea of a government bureaucracy, is asking of me not only the services of my body but the devastating perdition of my soul...