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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...
Lincoln: Richard W. Smith, LL.B. '38; 402 Woodman Accident Bldg., Lincoln, Neb...
Four girls were awarded the Seven College National Scholarships, given by an independent committee and ranging in amount from 100 to 1820 dollars. Winners of the scholarships are Adrianne Ellesson, of Columbus, Neb, and Columbus High School, Ruth Grand, of St. Louis and the John Burroughs High School, Polly Lewis, of Oklahoma City and Classen High School, and Janet Sellman of Los Angeles and the University High School...
...crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition to the Administration's Brannan Plan, said the President, was "the same kind of mudslinging, name-calling opposition that you hear every time we bring...
Broken Bow, Neb...