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Sergeant York (Warner). Twenty-three years ago a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young hillbilly from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains joined the Big Parade and headed for Europe with the 82nd Division of the A.E.F. His name was Alvin Cullum York, and the way he could handle a Springfield was a caution. Originally a conscientious objector, he had overcome his religious scruples against killing to go abroad and put a stop...
...middle of the Big Parade, a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young giant from the Tennessee hills became U. S. war hero No. 1. His name was Alvin Cullum York. Singlehanded, Sergeant York bagged 20 Germans in No Man's Land, then, with seven of his men, brought in 132 more Germans. By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army." After that modest Alvin York just went back to his family farm at Pall Mall, Tenn., where he raised white-faced cattle, sheep and corn, traded...
Twenty-one years ago a red-headed giant from the Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...
When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable...
...plebe was just learning that in dancing, unlike marching, he must not put his heel down first, when Death came to Rudolph W. Vizay, longtime Dancing Master of the United States Military Academy (TIME, March 11). Last week "Madame"' Vizay's half-trained pupils lined up in Cullum Hall to take their lessons from Mr. & Mrs. George Roberts...