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...July 12 -Little cloudy no planes no land headed north P.M. Jap Nell saw me . . . strafed, hit me, in both legs . . . bandaged them . . . drifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: What It's Like | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...popular side of the musical tracks. Five years ago he was studying for the ministry at Pomona College, Calif. His father is the Rev. Shirley R. Shaw of the University Christian Church in San Diego. But there was also music in the Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program. Robert (who was working his way through Pomona by wrapping loaves of bread in a local bakery) became leader of the Pomona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U. S. Maestro | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...ancient and honorable theme of a modern family living under the posthumous influence of a remote ancestor is again employed in "Spring Again," though this time under a cloak of humorous dialogue. The plot revolves about the long-suffering Nell Carter, played by Grace George, and her sullen rebellion against her father-in-law, General Carter of Civil War fame, who has influenced her life ever since her marriage to his devoted and admiring son, Halstead Carter. Complications set in when Nell proceeds to air what she knows of the General's private life in a radio skit entitled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

...brief moment at the opening of the second period Williams sneaked back into the game when Nichols on a low shot beat Steve O'Nell, who had replaced starter Ab Fenn in the Crimson sets. Just 46 seconds later Gebelein struck back on a pretty play in which Paine received credit for an assist. Beebe and Harding both scored on passes from Everts and Ayres respectively to give the Crimson a 5 to 1 edge before the end of the period...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Crimson Sextet Overwhelms Williams Stickmen, 7-1 | 1/8/1942 | See Source »

...Nell Lewis' campaign had raised such a furor that Governor J. Melville Broughton (who succeeded Hoey Jan. 1) hurried home from a vacation in Mexico City and ordered that the Warren books, already in use by 90,000 fifth-graders, be recalled at the end of the school term for corrections. He also asked Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell to analyze the rejected Newsome-Lefler book. Maxwell, a Hoeyite, explained everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Political Stink | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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