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Another one of Harry's admirers on the Constitution, Publisher Ralph McGill, said: "He covered the South honestly and well. There is too little reporting of the type he did. We here miss him as a friend and a reporter of the first rank...
Harry was born in Texas and worked on the Houston Post from 1938 to 1954, with three years out for Army duty in World War II. A combat correspondent with the rank of Staff Sergeant, he covered the campaigns in The Netherlands and Germany with the 84th Infantry Division and won the Bronze Star. He was City Editor of the Post when he joined Time as a correspondent in the Washington bureau 13 years...
...north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought Tasmania some unwanted renown: the most disastrous fire in Australian history...
Though earnings are still "marginal," the entire Air-Shuttle operation brought in $41 million carrying 2,800,000 passengers last year, which alone would rank it the ninth biggest U.S. airline...
Cook believes grades "have nothing to do with education" and are used for the wrong purpose, such as ranking for the Selective Service. But simply giving out high grades, he said, would be an ineffective way of fighting the Selective Service, since it would only lower the class rank of students outside his course...