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Back from the Mediterranean Theater, where he has been flying and fighting with the 99th, Captain Lemuel R. Curtis, a Howard graduate, declared: "Negroes in far-flung corners of the earth are getting a new slant on things. When they come home they expect to get some of the things they've been hearing about and fighting for. I believe they will be both aggressive and progressive about...
Before the House Military Affairs Committee appeared Technical Sergeant Lemuel Hendricks of Council Bluffs, Iowa, whose left leg was blown off by a land mine in Tunisia. Veteran Hendricks told worried Congressmen a few things: soldiers are concerned about their future and "what Congress is doing for them"; unless they are cared for, there will be another bonus march. Leaning on his cane, Veteran Hendricks spoke with emphasis: "The men in the foxholes are beginning to wonder what they are fighting...
...Pudding is generally known to people outside of the University for its activities in theatricals. This tendency was first marked by staged mock trials prior to 1840 and became a fact in 1844 when a member named Lemuel Hayward, with the help of a few confidants, produced "Bombastes Furiosa." The Pudding has given plays ever since in the early days sometimes as many as seven a year...
...actually born in a log cabin. His father, Lemuel Bricker, came from a hardy line of farmers who landed in the U.S. from the Palatinate in about the year 1830. His mother, Laura King, was of English-Scotch-Irish ancestry. Neighbors always referred to the Brickers and Kings as "hard-sense" people...
Under a huge tent, the sheriff of Middlesex County rapped three times with his scabbard, roared: "The meeting will come to order." While three undergraduate orators delivered their "parts," Lord Halifax took notes. Cried Senior Lemuel Serrell Hillman, of Grand Rapids, Mich...