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Miller was born near Asheville, N.C., where his father operated the general store and where his uncle, Billy Messer, was police chief for many years. Messer later appeared in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel thinly disguised as Big Bill Messler. At 13, Miller, big enough to pass for 16, joined the Citizens' Military Training Camps, spent a month riding the Sixth Cavalry's well-trained mares in Georgia and practicing on the rifle range until he qualified as a sharpshooter...
...early-with one exception. But even the rare, late-homecoming villager is no longer surprised at the single globe of light shining from the ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house which broods over the main street. He knows, along with those of his neighbors who have seen it, homeward bound from a church supper or Saturday-night movie, that Mme. Wanda Landowska is at her devotions: her altar, the harpsichord...
...Homeward from Salzburg last week after an anniversary festival trekked the Young Turks of 20th century music.They carried the sobering knowledge that many of them were not young any longer-indeed, not even "Turks" any more...
...Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...
Ready to March. One critical sector had eased. Egypt's flare-up had preoccupied Churchill on his homeward voyage; messages in cipher raced back & forth between the Queen Mary and Downing Street. Eden, who had flown back from Washington, worked late and long in emergency conferences. So did the War Office. Britain's strategic reserves on Cyprus were readied for transfer to the Canal Zone; the Mediterranean Fleet was alerted. If King Farouk had not put down the revolt, the British were prepared to move on Egypt. After Farouk's action, Eden turned to conciliation, said Britain...