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Both Lubells were drafted on Aug. 20, 1954, and are currently stationed with the 879th Field Artillery Battalion at Fort Dix...
...staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private Dix C. Boone (the Capitol's flag-raising specialist) spends as much as two hours a day, raising and lowering 40 or more flags...
Upshot of the case: Patrick was convicted of murder, only to be pardoned ten years later by New York Governor John Dix (he died in 1940). By turning state's evidence, Jones got his freedom. In Houston, having opened with an endowment of some $10 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, Rice Institute has continued to grow and flourish. Last week in Baytown, 40 miles from Rice Institute, an old recluse finished the deed he tried to do in jail 54 years ago. At 79, onetime Valet Charley Jones picked up a pistol and killed himself...
...Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount...
...Lieutenant. Nevertheless, Schine was absent from Fort Dix part or all of 43 days or nights during his first 75 days in the Army, although the average draftee was given passes on only nine of those days. This was illustrated by two charts that the Army presented. One chart used solid black squares on a calendar to show Schine's absences. The other used white squares with black borders to show normal absences by an average recruit...