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Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
...fabulous old mine, the flowers will still be growing in sheets of gold & blue & pink-petal to petal, as John Muir once said...
...House's week was enlivened by a fight in the California delegation. Democrat Alfred J. Elliott received by mistake a check for $100 made out to Republican Bertrand W. ("Bud") Gearhart by a Mrs. Gertrude Achilles of Morgan Hill, Calif., urging passage of a bill to create John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park. Mr. Elliott had the check photostatted, sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly...
Although five out of the nine encounters were exciting five game gruellers, most spectacular of all the matches was Kim Kanavarro's smashing victory over Yale's number one star M. Muir 15-11, 15-8, 15-0. In the last game Kanavarro literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...