Word: depauw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle Ground. Marine Shoup was born in Battle Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan...
...DePauw University Major General David M. Shoup, inspector general, U.S.M.C. . . . LL.D...
...most distinguished was a visitor from Britain: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who, after a harrowing transatlantic flight and a quick Washington welcome from Secretary of State Dulles, headed for Indiana by plane and auto to deliver his views on the cold war before an audience at Indiana's DePauw University...
...DePauw University
Martin graduated from DePauw (Ind.) University in 1937, was only a cub reporter on the Indianapolis Times when he cracked the freelance market with a $150 sale to the old Ken for an article on Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. After 20 years in the business, Martin can now pick his subjects and markets, draws top rates ($15,000 for the desegregation pieces). Meticulous and unhurried, he often writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist...