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...lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 51, who runs the world's biggest airline, the Army's Air Transport Command...
...will have more than 13,000,000 new veterans, and all except aliens and those dishonorably discharged will be entitled to burial in military cemeteries-along with their wives, widows, minor children and unmarried daughters. To provide grave-space for the host of warriors and warriors' kin that may be buried in military cemeteries in the years to come. Congress last week hunted earnestly throughout the country for new burial grounds...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's furious duck of a mayor, did an unwitting disservice to Hugo LaGuardia, 17 (no kin), when Hugo was arrested for playing catch with a glass plate at Coney Island. Hugo paid a fine of $3 ($2 more than his pitching partner) because, as the judge put it: "Any man who has the family name of LaGuardia must be particularly careful of what he does...
...legislation is needed. Except in a few states, a citizen who would like to leave his body to science now has no real power to enforce his wish. A body cannot legally be willed; its disposal is up to relatives. In Britain, courts usually give the next-of-kin his way; in the U.S., courts often respect the deceased's wishes. Best a man can do is leave a note that he wants a medical school to have his body, hope that no sentimental relative will object when the time comes...
...jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...