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Quicksand & Old Corsets. Marlon Brando Jr. was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., the third child, first son of a salesman of limestone products. His mother, described years later by Actress Stella Adler as "a very beautiful, a heavenly, lost, girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very...
...first homesteader: Union Soldier Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...
Died. Bess Streeter Aldrich, 73. novelist (Miss Bishop) and short-story writer, whose tales of pioneer life in Iowa and Nebraska delighted women's magazine readers for two generations; of cancer; in Lincoln, Neb...
Awards for participation against Princeton will be given Richard A. Levin '54 of East Orange, N. J. William J. Foote '55 of Aurora, III., and Verne W. Vanco '54 of Omaha, Neb...
...Hawkins of Manly, Australia; John G. Johnson of Des Moines, Ia.; James P. Jorgenson of Palm Beach, Fla.; John B. Millard of Newton, Mass.; Donald J. Mulvey of Andover, Mass.; Alan S. Rapperport of University City, Mo.; Marvin Sandler of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert A. Smails of Omaha, Neb.; William P. Travis of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles M. Walter of Hillsborough, Cal.; John T. Whatley of Austin, Tex.; Ralph L. Zan of Worcester, Mass.; Paul Bender of Brooklyn...