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...President's heart is in the right place. So is Bryan Untiedt's (TIME, April 13). But his sister heroine of the western blizzard paid the full price of devotion, heard no praise...
Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
...credited in last week's stories with manufacturing news tid-bits to put President Hoover in a warm light, inducing him to do more new and friendly things for their publicity value. To Secretary Joslin were ascribed the White House invitation to Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old Colorado blizzard hero; the opening of the rear grounds of the White House to tourists at noon each day with the President and Mrs. Hoover waving greetings from a balcony. To Secretary Joslin were traced Press items showing how much more President Hoover used the telephone than his predecessors, and comparing...
...There is a boy worth knowing," declared President Hoover as he read of how 13-year-old Bryan Untiedt had saved all but five of 21 children from death-by-freezing when their school bus was marooned 36 hours in a Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6). What impressed the President most was the way Bryan had stripped off his own clothes to wrap around his shivering schoolmates; how he had kept the youngsters from falling into a frozen sleep. Last week Bryan lay in a hospital bed at Lamar, Colo, painfully recovering from frozen hands and feet (they will...
...blizzard was gathering its fury when the school bus started from the schoolhouse at Little Towner, Colo, one day last week. That was why Teacher Maude Moser had called off classes?to get the children home in time, safely...