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...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week to begin the long voyage home...
Eleanor Steber, 31-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was summoned to Florida's Southern College (Lakeland) to be made an honorary Doctor of Music...
They also include Robert H. Llewellyn 4G, of Hatboro, Pa., English, Hiram J. McLendon 4G, of Lakeland, Fla., Philosophy, Oreste F. Pucciani, instructor in Romance Languages in the same field, and Hylton A. Thomas 3G, of Woodstock, Ill., fine arts...
Florida Peach. Nothing in Frances Langford's 29 years prepared her for her sweetheart role. Daughter of a Lakeland, Fla., building contractor and a concert pianist, she wanted to be an opera singer but not enough − the formalities bored...