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...prize rings around Omaha, he stood wide-legged, off-balance and clumsy, but he still knocked out twelve of the first 20 opponents that faced him. Out of the ring, Vince was just as rugged; in the course of a brawling youth, he once gave the marshal of Rulo, Neb. two black eyes with one punch. Jack Hurley, a shrewd manager of the old school, decided that Vince was just the kind of new material that could be trained to fight a main bout in the Garden; he might even become welterweight champion...
...Senate subcommittee, which has insisted during hearings that fellowship applications be screened to bar Communists, first heard of Edelman on Friday. Senator Wherry (R-Neb) brought him up as a possible Communist sympathizer who had received a fellowship without a security clearance...
Creighton University Omaha, Neb...
...lonely child. Once a tornado whirled her from her parents' porch in Friend, Neb. to a nearby cow pasture. "I was somewhat worried by the cows," she recalls. "I found the storms of nature friendlier than the whims of living creatures." Her teacher noted that "she always expects people to like her." Anna Louise Strong soon discovered that a lot of people did not like her. Says she: "I became very friendly with...
...burst like bombs when they hit the ground, scattering loose alfalfa in sprays. In its first seven days, Operation Haylift had flown 126 "sorties," had dropped 525 tons of alfalfa, seemed on the way to saving thousands of starving animals. Other missions were flown from Denver, Ogden, Utah; Kearney, Neb.; and Rapid City...