Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh supply. In Chicago, a man reported to the FDA office that he had found his wife drugged with products bought from the Fair Price Drug Co. (on a previous drug spree she had landed in jail). There were similar complaints from smaller cities, e.g., in North Platte, Neb. (pop. 12,429) four druggists had illegally sold barbiturates, sulfas and abortion drugs. These firms and others were convicted...
Before the war, when Ben Kuroki helped his father raise sugar beets and seed potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
...native Nebraska. He enrolled in the University of Nebraska's School of Journalism under the G.I. bill. This week Kuroki's class will graduate, but Ben will get his degree by mail. He left school about three weeks ago; with borrowed money, he had bought the York (Neb.) Republican (circ. 2,000) from venerable (73) Publisher Joseph Alden, a descendant of John & Priscilla...
Love Points the Way. Darryl Zanuck made his movie debut playing an Indian maiden on an early lot at $1 a day. That was just eleven years after his birth on Sept. 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Neb. (pop. 3,300). Worried about his health, his Methodist parents-Frank Zanuck, an Iowa-born hotel clerk of Swiss parentage and Louise Torpin Zanuck, a Nebraskan of English stock-moved to Los Angeles when Darryl was six. His mother cut his early movie career short as soon as she caught sight of him in Indian costume...
Lincoln: Richard W. Smith, LL.B. '38; 402 Woodman Accident Bldg., Lincoln, Neb...