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...contended that the inside of a watermelon is white until air reaches it and oxidizes it to red, Mewhinney gravely answered: "On July 10, 1893, Dr. Ebenezer P. Humford, F.R.S., LL.D., F.L.S., Ph.D., succeeded in slicing a watermelon inside a glass-encased vacuum at Wallace-Huxley Technological Institute, Hyannis, Neb. Wholly untouched by oxygen, the melon was red." An impressed reporter asked how he could remember so many facts. Soberly, Mewhinney said: "I am blessed with total recall...
...Lincoln, Neb...
...fight for it. He enlisted in the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor, served 40 months in the Pacific. There, as a doughboy in the 32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice, 37, was killed in action...
...concentrated enemy fire pinned them down for the night. In the morning, Dodd took his men on up to the summit and won it once and for all. ¶Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, 31, tank commander, Company A, 72nd Tank Battalion. He is a farm boy from Dwight, Neb., fought in the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of August 31 on the Nak-tong River Line, Sergeant Kouma's tank was surrounded by 500 screaming Koreans. While the infantry pulled back, Kouma drilled round after round of cannon and machine-gun fire into the charging Reds...
...Lincoln, Neb...