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Space Scientist Wernher von Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
...some types of cases the operations have now been simplified, and they are being done in more and more hospitals, many in smaller cities. Example: Karen Lee Gordon, from Pana, Ill., went to St. Mary's Hospital in nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill...
Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...