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...speed home-town news to Cleveland boys in the armed services, the Cleveland Press has produced far & away the slickest plan yet: a V-Mail newspaper...
...middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...
Four days before the Navy announced the sinking of the Wasp, the small-town Plymouth (Ind.) Pilot scooped the world by casually breaking the news in a front-page interview with a home-town survivor of the lost carrier. The sailor was abruptly whisked away by Naval authorities. Elderly Pilot Editor Samuel E. Boys got a blistering Navy rebuke. Possibly Sam Boys's slip expedited Navy's official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after...
Everybody, white and Negro, paraded from the school grounds to the ball park: seven bands, Future Farmers, 4-H Club members, New Farmers, school classes, cotton trucks, wagonloads of farm families, an infantry company packed with home-town boys. Everybody had fun, but everybody walked humbly in the sight of the Lord...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...