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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oversight. In Harlingen, Tex., E. N. Foster apologized for mistakenly reporting that thieves had carried off his 800-lb. boiler: he later found it mislaid in a closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circuit Riders | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Farewell & Hail. In Harlingen, Tex., Gunman H. C. Patterson hurriedly robbed the First National Bank of 32?, rushed out the door right into the open door of a police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...little radio station RGBS of Harlingen, Tex. serves some 40 scattered communities in the Rio Grande valley. RGBS recently asked listeners for their telephone numbers and the time they generally go to bed, offered to telephone them, at no matter what hour, the minute the invasion news came through. Result: some 400 grateful customers have requested KGBS's special service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ivasion Special | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Here Come the Pilots | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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