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TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct...
...anatomy was the most interesting of all the medical sciences. He loved anatomy so profoundly that he would never practice therapeutics as long as he lived. He loved the subject so deeply that he examined and helped identify 3,000 Confederate soldiers who had been buried on the battlefield of Gettysburg, close to which he was born...
Next day the President gave to the heroes and history which Texas is advertising in its six-month Centennial (TIME, June 8). After a drive through Houston, he rode on a yacht down Houston Ship Channel to the battlefield at San Jacinto where General Sam Houston wiped out Santa Anna's army, won Texas' freedom in 20 minutes. There President Roosevelt praised Liberty and Peace, called on his 20,000 listeners to enlist in a "national war for the cause of humanity without shedding blood." Nor did he forget to mention ''my old friend" Texas...
Dividing the $3,000,000 velvet from the Federal Government was another matter. Houston, as Texas' biggest city (292,000), got $400,000 for memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with...
Last week Hero Parker joined a distinguished company of Medal of Honor men which included: Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill...