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...event, with Dave Hoffman vs. Reuben Gittes and John Canning vs. Tom Cooney, is the last one in which House boxers are entered. The freshmen take over in the unlimited class as Don Beaver boxes Les Archambeau and T. D. Moskowits fights Mike Prichard...
...army truck lurched on the rutted Chinese road, the tailgate of the truck ahead rushed up suddenly, the driver jumped, and there was a crash. When Reuben Torrey saw his mangled right arm he thought he might as well cut it off with a penknife right there. But they drove him eight miles to an aid station, then flew him 400 miles to a hospital. Then the doctors amputated. There was plenty of readjusting for Reuben Torrey to do after that, but it was during that first eight-mile ride that he came to grips with his new situation...
...Reuben Archer Torrey Jr. was born 67 years ago, son of a preacher who was head of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, young Presbyterian Torrey asked to be sent out to Korea, but the Korea quota was full and he drew China instead. With his bride of four months, he arrived there in 1913, for the next 28 years worked out of the Presbyterian mission in Tsinan. Shantung Province. After World War II he served as a civilian liaison man between the U.S. forces and Chiang Kai-shek's army...
Abundantly Satisfied. The Rev. Reuben Torrey now lives in Taejon near a model farm operated by the Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Canada, and Salvation Army, which devotes part of its area to showing amputees how they can lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...
When it was over, a legless man nodded in Reuben Torrey's direction and whispered to a visitor from the U.S.: "We Koreans feel he's a man sent here...