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...late afternoon when the enemy task force was sighted, steaming in from the South China Sea, by a Navy search Liberator piloted by Lieut. P. F. Stevens of Joplin, Mo. Stevens reported his find: a battleship, a cruiser and six destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Toward Bigger Goals | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Junior four are Leopold H. Haimson, managing editor of the Student Progressive, member of the Debate Council, history and philosophy major from New York, George Washington High School; Glen O. Martin, member of the Harvard Liberal Union, philosophy major, Joplin, Missouri, Joplin High School; Marshall N. Rosenbluth, physics major, Chicago, Stuyvesant High School; and Truman O. Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Oakland High School, who was inducted into the Navy in June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Elected to Phi Beta Kappa | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

Harry Truman arrived late in the afternoon by automobile from Joplin. He walked briskly to the white, five-room house where he once lived, posed for photographs and newsreels in the 10 by 6 ft. bedroom where he was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Truman Day Special | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Married. Army Lieut. John Thompson ("Jack") Dorrance, 23, only male heir to the Campbell soup millions (150), peacetime yacht-fancier, wartime instructor at Camp Crowder in Joplin, Mo.; and Mary Alice Bennett, 22, daughter of a Joplin mining man; in Joplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...large enough market seems likely to present itself, a dazzlingly different type of headgear, practical and picturesque, may soon be manufactured on a grand scale by Glen O. Martin '46 of Joplin, Missouri, and Weld Hall. The new device which will soon be a must in every student's wardrobe, according to Martin, is called the Little Dandy Umbreller-Repeller, and really seems to be a marvel of simple efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Invents Face-Saving Mask | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

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