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MARINE TECHNICAL SERGEANT ALFORD LEE MCLAUGHLIN, 25, of Rome, Ga.: ". . . Although painfully wounded, he bravely fired the machine guns from the hip until his hands became blistered . . . accounting for an estimated 150 enemy dead and 50 wounded...
...LIEUT. JAMES L. STANLEY of Decatur, Ga.: "He was stood at attention for five hours at a time; confined eight days in a doorless cell less than six feet long; held to the ground by two guards while a third kicked and slapped him; stood at attention 22 hours until he fell, then hit while lying down with the side of a hatchet . . . interrogated for three hours with a spotlight six inches from his face, ordered to confess while a pistol was held at the back of his head; placed under a roof drain all night during a rainstorm; left...
...least 22 new orchestras have sprung up since last season. Among them: the Beaumont (Texas) Symphony (75 players), Savannah (Ga.) Symphony (68), Wartburg Community Symphony of Waverly, Iowa (65), La Porte (Ind.) Symphony (50), Ozarks-Clarksville Little Symphony of Clarksville...
...Confederate flags replaced the traditional red flags used to show where tournament players' golf balls lie in the rough. In the all-Southern final of the National Women's Amateur golf championship were Fort Worth's Polly Riley. 27, and Mary Lena Faulk. 27. of Thomasville, Ga. After firing a brilliant morning round of 73 strokes at the Rhode Island Country Club (women's par: 74), Georgia's Faulk wobbled somewhat in the broiling (100°) afternoon, but held enough of her morning edge to beat Texan Riley...
...skyscrapers, and its triumphal arches are the factory girders. Last week a committee of Americans (including Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Lucius Clay, John L. Lewis) announced plans for a huge monument to the U.S. past, to be erected atop Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs, Ga...