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...communication trench. As Chinese heads popped around a bend in the trench, one by one, Stanley cut loose with his BAR. "All through the shells and burp guns," he recalled later, "I kept on whispering I believe in only one God, Jesus, and crying out the Lord is my shepherd...
Last week Marine Commandant Lemuel C. Shepherd took formal cognizance of the fact that grey-haired Colonel Katherine A. Towle, director of Women Marines, has resigned (as of April 1953) to become dean of women at the University of California. He announced that Judy, now 36, is to replace her-thus becoming the youngest, and, at least to a marine's eye, certainly the prettiest woman ever to command the female branch of any U.S. military service...
...center right holds "a nameless group of suffering people who hope to travel upriver to well-being." Along the winding course ahead are a doctor and patient, a family bathing, nurses drying a sheet before a fire, a good Samaritan carrying a patient across a bridge, and a shepherd with his flock. At the source of the stream a couple roams blissfully in the paradise they have found at journey's end. In its quiet mixture of suffering, hope and joy, the window is altogether appropriate to the hospital setting. The wet light that falls through the colored glass...
...mammy-traders"-fat old market women, usually illiterate but smart enough to own and operate fleets of heavy trucks. Day & night, the "mammy-trucks" thunder down to the sprawling shantytown ports where fishermen put to sea in dugout canoes. The trucks bear striking legends: "The Lord Is My Shepherd-I Don't Know Why"; "Accra to Takoradi-With God's Help Anything Is Possible...
Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...