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...relentless advance. But the cancer spread through the child's abdomen and into his chest. By last January it had destroyed one of his lungs. Two weeks ago Stephen was put into an oxygen tent. Doctors told his parents the end was near. Hugh Ridlon, 28, an ex-G.I., and his wife Helen asked Stephen what he wanted most in the world. "Another Christmas tree," he answered. Last week, soon after he saw his tree, Stephen died...
...punches that blackened Matthews' fists and swelled them to almost twice normal size, confirmed the fact that Harry had certainly learned the knack, whatever it is. Said Murphy: "He's terrific. It's like being hit with a freight train." Matthews, a lantern-jawed ex-G.I. with a wife and two children, takes a serious pride in his work. Says Hurley: "He works harder at it than any fighter I ever...
...Good Monument. President Stoddard arrived at Urbana just as the tidal wave of ex-G.I.s began. He thought he knew their frame of mind. "They were like a lot of men coming to see a monument," he says. "They would have been glad to see any monument at all, but we decided that we would show them a good monument...
Frank Mordecai, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., and Richard Pfeiffer, 25, of Los Angeles, both city boys, both ex-G.I.s, met in 1948 in Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
...commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...