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More than 150,000 soldiers are now in hospitals in the U.S. Since July there has been a 300% increase in the homeward parade of the sick and the hurt...
...labeled his own slugging back at Oklahoma City a "digression." But that toe-to-toe digression had brought Republican cheers. Republican ringsiders, who had sat on their hands while Tom Dewey endorsed New Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back-platform speeches, even at midnight, in Springfield, Mo. (At Springfield, a small boy threw the first rotten apple of the campaign,, missing Dewey by ten feet, but conking a photographer.) At each stop Dewey...
...uproar swelled, the homeward-bound Congressmen wearily realized that the price for getting rid of Will Clayton had been too high. One of their first jobs after the election recess will probably be to patch up the bill...
...told, the Army plan-good news as it was to many troops long overseas and beginning to despair even of getting home on furloughs -offered little hope of a sudden, big homeward parade before the successful conclusion of the Pacific...
...events that had him escorting the most popular girl in the group. He saw her twice all evening. Fred Walther riding one of the horses bareback on the journey home (and they only serve soft drinks at Norumbega). Colonel Cornelius and Monsieur Bland piloting two of the hayracks homeward. The Colonel made the trip without, a mishap, but Lou ran into difficulties. See "Diz" Diano for the full story on how Lou dropped the reins, and how the horse made his way across the road, with the wagon ending up in a ditch while confusion reigned and Don Brown promised...