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...Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other...
Other stockmen waged similar battles. Railroads moved all available stock cars into sidings at Hugo, Limon, Boyero, Wild Horse, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells and Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing...
...Will to Live. Near Limon, Colo., Mrs. Jack Cook, 81, lost in fierce wind-driven snow, kept warm and alive all through the night by placing her hand on a post and walking round & round...
Over the River. Plunging on with the momentum of their winning drive, the men of the 32nd pushed 1,000 yards south of Limon, took the enemy by surprise and forced the crossing of the Leyte River, seizing a bridge on the road. But the Japanese were not panicked. The Imperial 26th Division struck back in a vicious counterattack, U.S. troops halted the attack, but their own push was slowed to a walk...
Over the Sea. Victory of the week-even greater in immediate results than the pulling of the Limon plug-came when U.S. fighter bombers, P-40s and 47s, jumped a reinforcement convoy of three Japanese transports and a destroyer off Masbate Island, in the Visayan Sea northwest of Leyte. The Yankee fighters barreled straight in, let the bombs go at close range, then strafed the crowded transport decks while screaming soldiers leaped overboard to get away from the spreading fires and the strafing...