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...prizes, the school gave out small religious statues; it taught Catholic songs, said Catholic prayers, and on holy days, it was apt to shut down. Even its report cards were different: they not only graded pupils on their progress in religious training, they also bore the heading "Diocese of Rockford...
...Navy Department announced a new director of the women's branch, to succeed retiring Captain Joy Bright Hancock: Commander Louise Kathleen Wilde, 42, who was assistant to the president of Rockford College, Ill. when she joined the WAVES as a lieutenant...
Opportunity Illuminated. Reinhold took his time. At Camp Grant, near Rockford, Ill., he stuffed himself with the astounding food (both cake and grapes at one meal), enrolled for correspondence courses in Russian and Persian, ingratiated himself with his captors, and peddled his medals and handmade souvenirs to accumulate a store of U.S. currency. He dyed a pair of khaki pants blue, and hid them...
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...come. Though sadly neglected by folklore and Hollywood, the Reno boys were more original than the James or Younger brothers; they were the first to stage a train robbery in the U.S. (near Seymour, Ind. on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), and once they burned an entire town (Rockford, Ind.) just so they could buy up its land for a bargain...