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They cost only a nickel or a dime, but for a while they transferred the nation's publishing capital to the small town of Girard, Kans. and made a capitalist-by-mistake of a Philadelphia bookbinder's son; see PRESS, Little Blue Books...
MacArthur's first drive for mutual trust came in early 1957 when, against the opposition of U.S. military men, he successfully argued that G.I. William Girard (TIME, May 27, 1957 et seq.) be tried in a Japanese court for his killing of a Japanese woman (which got Girard a three-year suspended sentence). Another notable MacArthur victory over the Pentagon was his success in securing a reduction of U.S. forces in Japan from some 100,000 to about 50,000. His key play for a new era in U.S.-Japanese relations began when he started to hammer out with...
...goals, and outplayed the visitors until the final five minutes. Dick Fischer added his second goal of the evening at 2:07 of the period, and sophomore Crocker Snow tallied at 13:24 to make the score 4 to 3. In this period, Crimson shooters bombarded Friar netminder Don Girard with 18 of their 32 shots...
Fischer's first goal, coming at 2:09 of the second period, was a beauty. Buddy Higginbottom passed out from the corner to Fischer, standing ten feet outside the crease. His on-the-ice backhander hit the near post and skittered past Girard. Fischer's second goal came on a 20-foot backhander which broke off the goalie's glove...
Born. To William Sylvester Girard, 23, ex-G.I. who was convicted last fall by a Japanese court (and put on suspended sentence) for shooting a Japanese woman scavenging brass from a U.S. Army firing range, and Haru Sueyama ("Candy") Girard, 30, who married him after the killing and before the trial: a daughter, their first child; in Ottawa, 111. Name: Roxanne Marie. Weight...