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Eighteen months ago Melvin G. Attig, 26, a high-school teacher in Aurora, Ill. ignored the advice of his principal and friend, took a job as high-school principal in nearby Oswego, Ill. (pop. 1,200). He knew that it was no sinecure, for many Oswegans were angry over removal of his predecessor, but he did not know it was a killing...
...floated half submerged. Carpenters lagged her with 14-in. timbers to protect her from bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan to Whiting. By Halloween, Mr. Kellogg expected to deliver one of the biggest single pieces of freight ever...
...Oswego, New York...
Sent to train with a field hospital unit at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., he marveled at the amiability of officers who let him bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas...
...Willard Thorp, 34, is the twenty-third college professor President Roosevelt has called to Washington as part of his ''Brain Trust.'' The new bureau chief was born in Oswego, N. Y., educated in Duluth. Amherst graduated him in 1920. He took his master's degree at Michigan, his doctor's at Columbia. He worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, which published his Business Annals. Other writings include The Integration of Industrial Operation and Economic Changes. In 1926 he returned to Amherst, has been teaching economics there ever since. Tall chubbily handsome...