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This coach's dream is Charley Parker of Jefferson High School, San Antonio. He graduates this spring, and hopes to get in some college training under the Army's A-12 program. His high-school coaches call him "the ideal athlete." He never breaks training, is president of the Student Council, and gets nothing less than As in his studies...
...more expense than success. In 1942, he roamed the state providing lavish free meals and exhibiting his flowing locks and friendly grin to the populace, came within 200 votes of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. Since then he has established an anti-New Deal paper called the Jefferson Republican, which he sends monthly at his own expense to a mailing list of thousands...
...struck at Berlin, the Luftwaffe reaction was different. Hundreds of fighters rose to the attack, in air combats as bitter as any the war had seen. Eighty-eight Nazi ships were shot down; 63 U.S. bombers and 14 fighters were lost. From that raid Lieut. John M. Gibbons, of Jefferson City, Mo., returned with one of the strange stories of the war: his bomber, the lone survivor of its formation, had nearly been knocked down by a dead enemy. Eighty German fighters had attacked straight into Gibbons' formation. Said Gibbons...
...York Democrats gathered at the National Democratic Club in Manhattan to celebrate the 201st birthday of Thomas Jefferson. At least 201 times in the three hours of oratory, the shade of Jefferson was invoked. But not once did State Chairman James A. Farley, or any other speaker, so much as mention the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...descendant of a rebellious Virginian, hanged in 1676 by England's Charles II, was preparing last week to teach U.S. history at Oxford. He is tall, blue-eyed Thomas Jefferson ("The Colonel") Wertenbaker, Princeton's Edwards Professor of American History (The Founding of American Civilization). Princeton announced last week that he would shortly leave to fill Oxford's Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair...