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Slight, short (5 ft. 5 in.) Lou Stark won his name by covering such stories as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the pitched battles in Harlan County, the sitdown strikes of the '303. Whatever he covered (typing out his copy hunt & peck, then checking and re-checking until his deadline-conscious editors squirmed uneasily), he won the confidence and respect of both sides without ever favoring either. When the accuracy of an exclusive Stark story about coal bargaining was questioned two years ago, Illinois' Paul Douglas said on the Senate floor: "I have never known Lou Stark to make...
...Harlan H. Hatcher, president-elect of the University of Michigan LL.D...
...training program will leave combat soldiers little time for recreation. Commanded by Major General Harlan N. Hartness, 53, a tough, weatherbeaten West Pointer, the 4th will find itself very often working from 4 in the morning until dark. There will be plenty of all-night alerts. All combat units will spend grueling weeks at Grafenwohr, a 100-square-mile training ground on the Czech border, where Hitler trained his Afrika Korps...
...year-old brother of Assistant Dean Harlan P. Hanson '48 was member of the freshman and jayvee football squads, and stroked the combination crew against Yale in his first year...
...wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...