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Married. Army Lieut. John Thompson ("Jack") Dorrance, 23, only male heir to the Campbell soup millions (150), peacetime yacht-fancier, wartime instructor at Camp Crowder in Joplin, Mo.; and Mary Alice Bennett, 22, daughter of a Joplin mining man; in Joplin...
...Camp Crowder...
...Phog") Allen (Naismith's star pupil), who has won the Conference championship in 18 of the last 25 years, took on three teams in one evening, and trounced all three-the North American Bombers of Kansas City (45-to-36), the Rosecrans Field Flyers (71-to-22), Camp Crowder...
...night of a pay day at Camp Crowder (near Joplin, Mo.), when the troops had received about $1,000,000 in pay, 16 soldiers were arrested for drunkenness-less than one in a thousand...
Wayne C. Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce, estimated that about 1,400,000 workers will quit retailers and wholesalers for the Army and the war plants. Walter F. Crowder, chief of the Department's Business Structure & Operations Unit, said the average small retailer "can't realize what lies ahead, since most of them have fairly satisfactory supplies on hand, but replacement difficulties will be constantly greater from now on." All this gloom got on the nerves of urbane Lew Hahn, general manager of National Retail Dry Goods Association and a patron saint of retailing. Said he indignantly...