Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mary of the Plains, was founded in 1952, has a good faculty (42% are Ph.D.s) and physical plant, but has only 145 students. President Francis J. Donohue thinks that the college needs an enrollment twice as large to operate economically. But although the area needs a college-the next (Fort Hays Kansas State College) is 110 miles away -the farm lands around St. Mary's suffered impoverishing droughts in recent years. Students who should be attending do not have the money, and the young college run by the Sisters of St. Joseph has little cash to spare...
Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where...
...WILSON. Gavin quotes an unnamed service chief on Wilson: "The most uninformed man, and the most determined to remain so." His "deception and duplicity," says Gavin, let him conceal slashes in combat-ready divisions by creating "Wilson" divisions out of paper groups of troops as far apart as Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone. Wilson made good a foolish assurance to Congress that no additional soldiers were needed for Formosan defense, charges Gavin, by shipping groups over without shoulder patches...
Monaghan to Hopkins. Admiral Holloway was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in June 1898, the famous year in which the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, Commodore Dewey gave the order in Manila Bay-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and the Navy moved into its new role of world responsibility. In 1904 his father, Dr. James Lemuel Holloway Sr., an osteopath who at 98 is still widely respected in the Southwest, moved his family to Dallas. There Jim went to Oak-cliff High School (now Adamson High), made a name as a varsity football tackle, a member...
Bench Warmer. In Fort Worth, when a judge told Neal Eubanks and Robert Adams that their case could be decided immediately if they would waive a waiting period, they looked at their lawyer, who advised them to waive, both raised their right hands and waved at the judge...