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Died. Navy Chief Specialist Gus Sonnenberg, 44, onetime pretender to professional wrestling's hypothetical crown; of leukemia; in the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. Cauliflower-eared Sonnenberg played football for Dartmouth and the Providence Steamrollers, taught in Detroit high schools, introduced football's flying tackle to wrestling, topped most of his ringmates in grunting & groaning. He once lost a "championship" when a moth flew into his mouth and choked...
When World War II began, West laid his idea before the Brethren and eventually the Church adopted the plan. Soon many Brethren had agreed to donate and raise a heifer for Europe. Now in the Brethren's barns (from Goshen to Westminster, Md.) are 1,000 cattle all earmarked for export to liberated countries...
...soldier seriously wounded near Palermo rides five miles by bus every evening from the convalescent section at Forest Glen, Md. He has missed only two services. "I was out there, he says. "I was with them. The least I can do for them now is to pray for them...
...Spent a morning at the Navy's skyscraper hospital at Bethesda, Md., for a physical checkup...
Married. Camilla Sewall Edge, 21, brunette daughter of New Jersey's Governor Walter Evans Edge, cousin of Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall; and Army Lieut. Edward Brooke Lee Jr., 26, Princeton ('40), of Silver Spring, Md.; in Trenton...