Word: oshkosh
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Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
Saay, just what does an officer get if he is three quarters of the way to Oshkosh, gets sent to Paducah, calls up his wife from Bloomfield and finds that half an hour after the effective date of his orders she started for Charleston? Would she . . . well . . . uh . . . better study it for the exam tomorrow, just to be sure...
...shirt-sleeve editing, OWI's overseas director Robert E. Sherwood picked 29-year-old Kenneth W. Purdy, a Midwesterner who left the University of Wisconsin to become editor of the Oshkosh (Wis.) Fox Valley Free Press at 21. Then he joined the Annenberg publications, working on Radio Guide and Radio Digest. He went to Click in 1938, later went to Look, joined the Donovan Committee in November...
EVAN MCDONALD Oshkosh...
...lives since the Pastor of that church, she refers to, is one of the leaders in the League of Decency organized to send this town to the "cleaners" for fair. No sir, her fears are groundless. Her folks will be just as safe here as they would be in Oshkosh, Wis., Waukegan, Ill.,* or Erie...