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...radio engineer," Private Lloyd Shearer told Lieut. Tom Sawyer. But, like every private who ever argued with an officer, he lost. For H. V. Kaltenborn's broadcast from Fort Bragg, N.C., Private Shearer was an engineer. In the New York Times this week he told his story...
...truck carrying 20,756 lb. of fresh meat from Baltimore to North Carolina's Fort Bragg was fined $82.25 for overweight at Woodbridge, Virginia. Overweight or not, trucks must wait two to six hours in line to be weighed...
...dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play...
Died. Sir William Henry Bragg, 79, famed British physicist; in London. With Son William Lawrence Bragg he developed the X-ray spectrometer, which revealed the interior architecture of crystals. For this work father & son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize. A famed, sound popularizer of science, Sir William once flatly told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that man has a soul, declared : "Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together...
Surprise. From Fort Bragg, N.C., Private Eugene Saunders sent his mother, in Huntington, Ind., a batch of cookies. He had joined the Army Cooks' and Bakers' School...