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...half-hour program, News From Home, short-waved six nights a week to troops abroad. Included in the broadcast is a portion of Elmer Davis' five-minute news summary (CBS, 8:55 p.m. E.W.T.); a home-town report originating at a local station, bringing familiar voices to many a soldier; and a campfire tale specially written for the boys abroad. One of the writers: John Steinbeck...
...second day Vines shot 78 and qualified for match play. Trailed by a gallery nearly as large as the one that followed home-town Hero Goodman, Vines got jittery, lost his first match, 1 up on the 19th hole, to a Tulsan named Ted Gwin. For a comparative beginner, Vines was in good company. Put out in the same round were Goodman, Chapman, Yates, Argentine Open Champion Mario Gonzales and nearly every other name player except Bud Ward and Ray Billows (twice runner...
...games he had batted .438, a better average than that of any other Yankee, including Batting Champion Joe Di Maggio. But the Scooter had a low number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie since Bob Feller...
...entire myth was the brain-child of the '44 Jubilee Committee, attempting to remind its classmates to invite their home-town girl to the big Freshman weekend during the spring vacation. Designed and penned by Edward Mahoney '44, already famous for his Petty-like posters displayed for past. Freshman affairs, the letters coyly answered an imagined invitation to the Jubilee...
...Price leafed through his parish list, found that 260 boys & girls were away at school and college, most of them in New England. Why not pay them a visit? Lots of parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price, but few youngsters get personal calls from their home-town parson. When his young people were home at Christmas, he asked if they would like such a pastoral visit. They all thought it would be fine. So last week blond, energetic, 38-year-old Rector Price set out in his shiny new Dodge to visit his scattered academic flock...