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...killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. After the battle ended, Hayes and the other two survivors were ordered back to the U.S. by President Roosevelt. They were lionized from coast to coast. Rene Gagnon and John Bradley took it in stride, but Ira Hayes, a shy and bewildered Pima Indian, found the hero's role hard to play. Increasingly, he sought escape in drinking, drifted from job to job. Fifteen months ago he was picked up in Chicago, shoeless, shaking and incoherent, and jailed for drunkenness. In 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk; efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Then There Were Two | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

After extensive X rays, the doctors told Patricia's father that her brain injuries were so serious she might never get well. But Shoe Salesman Edwin T. Murphy, 44, never lost faith in his daughter's chances. Twice every day he visited Pima County Hospital, stood beside Patricia's bed and said gently: "Pat-can you hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Answer | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Arizona, Tucson, John G. Flint '24, 3213 East Pima ave.; Harvard Club of Atlanta Richard A. Stout '29, 226 Candler Building; Harvard Club of Birmingham, 2619 Crest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Announce Party Schedules | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

Workmen hung an enormous banner in Manhattan's Grand Central Station last week. Thousands of commuters who did not know a Pomo from a Pima, a Hopi from a Zuni, a Choctaw from a Cherokee, now knew that the long heralded exposition of Indian Tribal Arts had opened. The exposition's purpose is not only to show that the untutored mind of Lo! the poor Indian has produced a primitive art of the greatest importance for U. S. painters and designers, but also that among U. S. Indians there still are painters, potters, weavers and silversmiths doing important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ugh! Ugh! How! | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Particularly well pleased with Coolidge Dam are the Pima Indians whose reservation lands will chiefly benefit from the impounded waters. Their time-old enemy, the Apaches, a more wandering, warlike tribe, had been moved off lands above the dam to make way for Coolidge Lake, had received $146,000 in U.S. compensation. At the dam dedication, however, the Apaches were in peaceful mood.† They made Citizen Coolidge "Chief White Father"; the Pimas bestowed upon him the title of "The Bringer of Waters."** Then the chiefs of both tribes and Chief White Father sat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Dedicator | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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