Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply listed the lady lieutenant colonel's schools (Boyles Business College, Omaha, Neb., the University of Maryland Extension in Heidelberg, Germany), her record in ten years in uniform (her present post: chief of the WAC Training Center, Fort Lee, Va.) and her medals (Commendation Ribbon, Army of Occupation WAAC; American Theater and European Theater Ribbons, World War II). The present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising...
Family & Early Years: Born in Peru, Neb., one of seven children of a political science teacher who had recently moved from upstate New York. Father later transferred to the University of Nebraska, where young Herb was entered after graduation from Lincoln, Neb. high school. Took a liberal arts course, edited the campus Daily Nebraskan, graduated in 1924 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a scholarship to Yale Law School. At Yale, edited the Law Journal, graduated cum laude...
...POSTMASTER GENERAL: 1) G.O.P. National Chairman Arthur Summerfield; 2) Senator Fred A. Seaton, Hastings (Neb.) newspaper publisher and one of Eisenhower's campaign advisers; 3) Herbert Brownell, New York lawyer who is Dewey's able political strategist...
...OMAHA, NEB. (goal: $1,194,262) keyed its appeal to last April's flood. At all downtown street crossings appeared sandbag piles and posters proclaiming that "the dikes against despair" and the dangers of "disease, dependency, delinquency and desertion" need sandbags...
Died. James Capone, 60, white sheep brother of Chicago's Scarface Al, Ralph and Matt Capone, who went west after World War I, took the name Richard J. Hart, led a law-abiding life as Indian agent, later town marshal and justice of the peace in Homer, Neb.; of a heart attack; in Homer...