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...Charles Reilly shoreward to chest-deep water. Reilly gasped: "I'm O.K." Martinez left him-and Reilly disappeared. Recruit Joseph Anthony Moran (son of Actress Thelma Ritter) brought Leroy Thompson to relative safety and went out again. Thompson went under. So did little Jerry Thomas. So did Tom Hardeman, the platoon's best swimmer, who had been helping others...
...trunk Democrats continues to be ex-Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, long a major power in Texas politics. When the state lost its National Committeeman because of the intra-mural feud, Rayburn represented Texas to the Committee. Representing the National Committee in the state is young D. B. Hardeman, who along with Maury Maverick, Jr. and Jim Sewall forms the nucleus of a group of liberal young Democrats, who, according to seasoned political observers, are the rising powers in the state. New Dealer Maury Maverick, Sr, continues to exert considerable influence in San Antonio and thereabouts...
...until the second period did the sputtering Georgia Tech offense, handicapped by the loss of injured Star Halfback Leon Hardeman, finally get untracked. With a pair of downfield blockers paving the way, Hardeman's substitute, Dick Pretz, ripped around right end for 11 yds. and a touchdown. That was all the scoring for the day, but Tech's fast, rangy (191 lbs. average) defensive platoon bent to its task with ferocious tackling and held Alabama at bay. Final score...
...Starr, who had nursed in the rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead...
...record time of 48 hr. (TIME, May 7). Climax to the maneuvers was Exercise M, a problem whose stake was control of the Caribbean. From the flagship Pennsylvania, Commander-in-Chief Sellers and grey, bespectacled Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Navy Operations, had watched Vice Admiral Frank Hardeman Brumby of the Scouting Force fight it out with Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves of the Battle Force. Admiral Brumby's lighter Grey Fleet was assumed to have the Caribbean under guard. Admiral Reeves's Blue force, with 1,200 marines on four troop ships, was out to take...