Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attu, belly wounds were predominant. The reason: green troops had not learned to hug the ground closely. During the later phases of Attu's fierce fight more men were wounded in the buttocks than anywhere else. This prompted the hospital's senior surgeon, Major Merriwell T. Shelton, of Augusta, Me., to observe: "A lot of soldiers wearing Purple Heart ribbons are going to have a hard time explaining how they got wounded...
...Small, begoggled, part-time Copyboy Shelton Newberger of the Chicago Sun is also a student at the University of Chicago. He wrote an article for his college's undergraduate newspaper, distributed clippings of it to Sun staffers, including Founder-Publisher Marshall Field. It berated the Sun for departing from its liberal line, for failing to live up to its possibilities. Cried Copyboy Newberger: "Get rid of Publisher Silliman Evans and assistants . . . and replace them with fighters of the Sam Grafton, Max Lerner, Ralph Ingersoll type. . . . What the Sun needs is dynamic leadership." (Copyboy Newberger still...
Headlining the show are Veloz & Yolanda, whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert-and persistent -with a guitar; Jerry Shelton is lively-and lavish-with an accordion; Al & Lee Reiser are energetic-and relatively brief -with two pianos. The Golden Gate Quartet harmonizes-and with not too much variety. Susan Miller sings-a little too close to the microphone. Bill Gary dances-a little too much like Paul Draper...
...nosegays for this deal go to smart, up-from-the-ranks U.S. Pipe President Norman Felt Shelton Russell, who joined the company 33 years ago, has seen it grow from just another pipe producer to champion in its field. One of the first U.S. corporations to land war contracts, U.S. Pipe three years ago was selling millions of dollars worth of cast-iron water mains for Army camps, defense houses. Then Pipemaker Russell took on orders for shells, gun mounts, howitzer barrels, etc. Result: sales in 1941 jumped to a 15-year peak of $23,000,000; sales last year...
Alarm-Clock Conscience. In St. Louis, Mrs. Gwendolyn Shelton, who makes a living waking people up by telephone, had a new customer: a woman who wanted to be called up every night at 10 and ordered...