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...Germany. He won his medals-Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre with palm, Bronze Star with cluster. At war's end, when the 104th linked up with the Soviet forces in Germany, Lieut. Colonel Hoegh was in a group that flew behind the Russian lines in a Piper Cub to establish liaison with Marshal Konev's advancing army...
...light of all the circumstances," CBS firmly refused to yield. Moreover, all three networks informed Butler that, like editors of the older medium, they would go right on calling their own shots. The cub reporter of U.S. journalism had faced a challenge to its freedom, and had measured...
Eccentric, self-made Financial Juggler John Fox, 49, snapped up the paper four years ago, when it seemed that its fortunes could go no lower. An enthusiastic cub as publisher and columnist ("Washington Waters"), Fox shook up the paper into a livelier daily. But by last week. Post circulation had dropped from 306,000 to 267,000 and advertising had tumbled with it. Of the "bargain price" of a reported $3,300,000 that Fox paid for the paper, he still owes about...
...Cornell junior varsity 150's nipped the Crimson by about two feet after a see-saw duel. Winning time was 6:47.3. The Yardling lightweights finished third behind Princeton and M.I.T., the Princeton cub eight winning in 6:44.8. The Yardling time...
...hung three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop, but he was a mean man in the clinches and never dull...