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Mulliken's exposure to army ways came early. A graduate of Culver Military Academy (and Dartmouth), he served as a combat mechanized-cavalry lieutenant in four of the five major European theater campaigns of World War II and won the Silver and Bronze Stars. He got his Silver Star in October 1944 when he was a 22-year-old second lieutenant with the U.S. 7th Armored Division then fighting in The Netherlands. He was leading a platoon in a unit that was locked in combat with German forces for control of a canal when the Germans broke through. Mulliken...
...most-discussed discovery was actually not his but his brother Myron's. In 1938 G.W.T.W. had gone into production with the hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara still in full cry.* While the old sets on Selznick's 40-acre lot in Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through the smoke with a pert English brunette in tow. "I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara," Myron announced dramatically. David Selznick agreed, signed up Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett...
...result, four California youths set fire to an acre of the Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
...here that Carlson chose to make his life. Born in Culver City, Calif., the son of a Swedish-immigrant machinist, he had been raised in an atmosphere of religion: the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, an offshoot of Lutheranism. Two years of service as a seaman in the U.S. Navy (1946-48) provided him with the G.I. bill and eventually his medical degree. At North Park College in Chicago he dated blonde, pert Lois Lindblom, whom he married in 1950. Then came Stanford and a degree in anthropology, followed by George Washington University med school. Lois worked as a nurse...
...change-they had picked up 16 seats in the Midwest alone, including three in Ohio, two in Indiana and Wisconsin, one each in Illinois, Nebraska and North Dakota. The Democrats won at least six of Iowa's seven seats; many of the victors were young upstarts, notably John Culver, 32, former aide to Teddy Kennedy. The Democratic phalanx marched from Maine, where at least one out of two Democrats triumphed, to Washington, where the state's congressional composition changed abruptly from 6-to-l Republican to 5-to-2 Democratic...