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Asleep in a scramble tent at the south end of the 10,000-ft. Danang airbase runway, U.S. Air Force Major George V. Moore of McCook, Neb., was rudely awakened at 1:25 a.m. "Suddenly there were explosions going off all around me," he said later. "I was knocked out of my bed and against the side of the tent...
Carson started in show business in his home town of Norfolk, Neb., where at twelve he appeared as The Great Carsoni, the mitey master of magic and ventriloquism (he can still do both). After graduation as a journalism major from the University of Nebraska, he became a disk jockey, was a writer for CBS's Red Skelton, then quipster-quiz-master for ABC's afternoon Who Do You Trust? And in his five years of squeezing comedy out of contestants, Carson found just the honing he needed for The Tonight Show...
...Bowdoin Prize in English to C. Turner '65, of Lowell House Stockton, Calif., who won first prize of his essay, 'Bitter Aspic"; Roger G. '66, of Dunster House and , Neb., awarded second prize for essay on "Whittaker Chambers: The to Believe"; and Donald J. Vink of Quincy House and Holland, Mich., won third prize for his essay. "The problem of the Sonnet Cycle...
Kerstetter, of Dunster House and Indianola, Ia., succeeds Lawrence S. Coburn; Allen, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., inherits his position from William C. Crain...
...strikingly similar situation developed after Tom Dewey's 1948 defeat. With an angry coalition of Taft and Stassen forces denouncing him as "a symbol of Dewey misrule" and demanding his departure, then National Chairman Hugh Scott called a meeting of the committee in wintry Omaha, Neb., in January 1949. As Scott laughingly recalls it, he deliberately chose an inconvenient site in hopes of reducing attendance. His strategy seemed to work, for he survived a confidence vote by a four-vote margin. But six months later, he resigned...