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...became a good one. The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury put her to work as a cub reporter. In 1937, when she was taking pictures in Korea, the Japanese clapped her in jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...
...team. Jim Callahan from England plays fullback, corresponding to football's safety man, and French-born Pierre Lelandais and Gordon Hutchinson from Cotland are wings. Sam Butler and Sam Adams, both football lettermen, are the center three-quarters, and the fast power runners. Butler is vice-president of the Cub, and Adams is team captain...
Pete's" gin-drinking night life finally finished him in Philadelphia. He was dealt to the Chicago Cubs after the 1917 season, and after a brief stint as a sergeant in the A.E.F. came back to win 123 games for them in seven seasons. But Old Pete and Cub Manager Joe McCarthy were unable to see eye to eye on training regulations, so Alex the Great was sold for the waiver price ($4,000 at the time) to the Cardinals...
...Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...Campus Cub. Daughter of a globetrotting businessman and a French mother, Marguerite Higgins was born in Hong Kong in 1920, got her schooling in France and the University of California ('41). During the summer after graduation, she cubbed for the Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald. While she worked for her master's degree at Columbia's School of Journalism, she landed her first Trib job as a campus correspondent, was taken on full time when she finished Columbia in 1942. She was sent to the London bureau in 1944, got to Germany in time to cover the closing...