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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...