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...Kon Reeves's Orchestra will provide music for the dancing, so officers are encouraged to bring their wives and sweethearts, or to come stagging. WAVES, WACS, And Army Nurses have been invited...
...From the Burmese Yan-Kon, meaning...
...Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press nabbed him two years ago. Brandt told Princeton professors how to write readable stuff, last year...
Divorced. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell; by Lydia Pavlovna Kon-doyarov, Lady Deterding, daughter of one White Russian general, ex-wife of another; in The Hague. Grounds: misconduct...
Central figure and near-hero of Wah'Kon-Tah is the late Laban J. Miles, a plump little Indian Agent who went to live with the Osages in 1878, died among them last year. An honest, endeavoring man, a Quaker like his nephew Herbert Hoover, who spent part of his boyhood at his uncle's agency, Agent Miles minded not only his charges' ways but his own, became the Osages' trusted friend. He kept a journal and kept it to himself. One of the ways Agent Miles fought the Indians' inevitable degeneration was by administering...