Word: bridgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...
Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...