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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
Harvard's kickoff-and-extra-point artist Drvaric, and defensive guard Nick Rodis, were asked to join the All-North football team that plays an All-South squad in Montgomery, Alabama, on Christmas Day. Both men are Seniors. Other men named to the All-North squad included Dartmouth's Jonathan Jenkins and Joe Sullivan, Columbia's Jack Nork, and Holy Cross' Veto Kissell...
Roland Boisvin, aged 53, a mechanic, left his home in the Rue de 1'Exposition after an early lunch. A World War I veteran, he was going to join comrades of the Association des Anciens Combattants who were to lay their traditional Armistice Day wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
Cliffe student volunteers are devoting from one to four hours a week on their particular join...