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Said an I.N.S. dispatch: "A shell fragment splintered his skull through the steel helmet he was wearing. He was rushed to an aid station and then to hospital, where he was operated on immediately. Eleven pieces of bone and nine pieces of brain tissue were successfully removed." Said Army medical authorities: Tregaskis is "coming along satisfactorily," will take at least six months to recover...
...TIME is helping to bring all the news of all the world to the Persian Gulf Service Command while it is still news," cheered the U.S. Army Dispatch, weekly newspaper of the P.G.S.C. And Area Commander Donald H. Connolly said: "TIME will give our troops the broadest possible coverage of all phases of American life...
...round softies of today, get on your feet and salute a man." The man thus challengingly saluted: Frank Crosby, dead in his mid-70s, who 50 years ago fought the longest and strangest knockout fight in history. The saluter: Ed Wray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor...
Then suddenly the Gulf was dark again. There were no more targets, they had been destroyed. The U.S. ships moved off. Said Norton-Taylor's dispatch...
Explains Wimberley: In September, 1880, the New York Post printed a dispatch from the old San Francisco Call reporting the discovery, by one Anson Tichenor, of "gold-bearing waters" at Calistoga, Calif. Said the dispatch: "[Tichenor] has succeeded in extracting $1,060 from ten barrels of water. The gold is of the highest grade...