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...over North Carolina's Guilford County mothers called their children in from play one day last week, hustled them into cars and buses and off to the nearest schoolhouse. Three women pulled their total of seven kids from a swimming pool and hauled them off, still dripping, in bathing suits. In High Point an hour-long traffic jam developed around the Ray Street School. Reason for the activity: North Carolina, 47th among the states in fulfillment of polio vaccination goals, was staging a blitz campaign to get out in front. In Guilford County (pop. 209,000) alone, busy physicians...
Cornwallis' army, badly worn by endless American harassment, and by such set-piece battles as Camden, S.C., Hobkirk's Hill, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, moved into Virginia and took up quarters at Yorktown. Washington was in New England contemplating an attack on New York-the French had landed 5.000 troops (who startled Americans by rigidly re- fraining from even minor thefts) to help him, and a big French fleet was preparing to sail from the West Indies. But Washington decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks...
...lawyers all spelled it 'Dolley.' It appears that way in the original text of legal documents, but is commonly changed to 'Dolly' in copies made by clerks. Her correspondence with the sculptor [John H.] Browere specifically rejects Dorothea, Dorothy, Dolli and Dolly. Inquiry at Guilford College, N.C., where the minutes of the New Garden (Quaker) Monthly Meeting are preserved, disclosed that it was 'Dolley' in the record of her birth...
Died. Adolf Busch, 60, German-born violinist, founder (in 1919) of the Busch String Quartet and (in 1935) of the Busch Chamber Music Players; of a heart attack; in Guilford...
...complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town meetings of Guilford, Conn, from 1665 to 1701; and most of the original tracts and sermons of Cotton and Increase Mather...