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...week, at an Engineer depot in Yokohama, Jenkins explained his unusual position. He saw 16 months of service in World War I, then left the Army to earn more money (as a railroad man and part-time farmer). After raising a family of nine children (he now has 15 grandchildren), Jenkins wangled his way back into the Army in 1942. "I pestered the Army until they let me in again," he said, "to free some younger man for a job where youth was needed...
...woman. Mrs. Doraine Van Roos DuPont Liebson, he complained, had led him to believe, during six delightfully dazed months of courtship, that "she was a maiden of 26." But after the wedding last February, he discovered that she was nearer 48, that she had a married daughter-and two grandchildren...
...have been uppermost in his mind, but he landed, nonetheless, right in the middle of the biggest question of domestic politics: Is Ike a candidate for President in 1952? Reporters asked it as he landed at New York's Mitchel Field, asked it again when he greeted his grandchildren at Fort Knox, Ky., and asked it every time he turned around in Washington...
Recently in Bogota, Candido, now 90, saw mention in a newspaper of someone named Licht. Diligent backtracking from this clue led him to his son Daniel, a Bogotá poster artist with children and grandchildren. After recovering from his astonishment, Daniel took his father to the frail, 82-year-old wife he had last seen 50 years before. In the cool, brick-floored upstairs hall of the Bogota home for the aged where she lived, they tearfully embraced. Then, white-bearded Old Soldier Candido Licht looked at her, his son,-his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, and spoke with pride...
...years your reading focus may switch somewhat. 315 will become a reference volume, dedicated to the proposition that association in the Glee Club may lead to appropriation for a job. Past that, 315 will probably turn out to be a large and heavy object for the edification of grandchildren...