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Gothenburg, Neb.'s Beulah I. Hilblink : of the 112,000 U.S. public schoolteachers who quit their classrooms in 1942-43, she was one who helped solve the teacher shortage by returning to her classroom. Quitting a Washington job, she made a statement which has been read by thousands of teachers: "If in the years of peace ... I am asked, 'What did you contribute toward our victory?' I shall be glad and proud to answer,'I was a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Laurels for Five | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Earned Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Ben Kuroki, American | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

KATHRYNE ROHRS Peru, Neb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Eviction. In Belgrade, Neb., Mrs. Adelia Ward, baffled by a balky drain pipe, finally called a plumber, who went to work, extracted from the pipe 60 hibernating snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Counter Point. In Omaha, Neb., Post Office Clerk Neil Chapman braced himself for the remarks of a lady who approached him with one of the office's pens. She wanted the pen point's name & number because it wrote so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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