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...heels of the Farm Bureau charges, a member of the Board of Regents, J. Leroy Wolsh, waded into the frey. "Several times I have complained about the writings and speeches of this individual made over the state and have brought this to the attention of the University." Speaking only for himself he said, "I am glad to have a group like these farmers pay attention to this sort of activity and call attention to it. I have no brief for anyone in a tax-supported institution who favors the destruction of the free enterprise system...
...Leroy Anderson '29 who brought the second day of 25th reunion to a boisterous climax. Taking the baton after the intermission, he led "Fair Harvard" and nine of his own arrangements, including two encores. When he tried to sit down and rest between numbers, his classmates' applause refused to allow...
Confidently he entered the Democratic runoff-decisive in Florida-against State Senator LeRoy Collins, 45. Son of a circuit-riding Texas minister, Collins was rated the state's outstanding senator. He has a son at Annapolis and three young daughters with him at the Grove, a 129-year-old Tallahassee house built by his wife's great-grandfather, Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida Territory during most of the Second Seminole War (1835-42). A curly-haired six-footer, Collins looked good on TV and campaigned strenuously against Charley Johns's "muster of the vultures...
Steadily, uranium fever mounted. Some 1,300 claims were filed on lands in the surrounding desert and mountains. Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched...
...joke for Leroy Wilson. He and Holland set out for the area of the new find in Holland...