Word: hedgerows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died that evening was called "Doc." No one remembered his full name; because he was a medic, they had all called him Doc, and that was good enough. He had crawled out into the enemy's field of fire to drag one of the wounded into the hedgerow that was shielding the company, and he was killed by a burst from an AK-47. Men rarely cry in a spot like that, but some of them did then. That is how much they loved...
Died. Jasper ("Jap") Deeter, 78, actor, director and founder of the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan-Rose Valley, Pa.; of complications following a broken hip; in Media, Pa. A friend of Eugene O'Neill's, Deeter abandoned a career on Broadway in 1923 and set up the Hedgerow Theater in a vacant mill. Before Deeter retired as its director in 1956, Hedgerow had established itself as a training ground for such future stars as Van Heflin, Libby Holman and Richard Basehart...