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...whether he goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla. He rose fast to brigadier general, took the 34th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade to England...
...approach to a Tibetan lamasery. For years the one entrance to Kent from town was a narrow bridge spanning the Housatonic River; girls crossed it with approximately the same frequency as Martians. Inside was an austere male world of study created in 1906 by the late Rev. Frederick H. Sill, a white-robed monastic priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order...
...limped or crawled away with twisted limbs. Some hung on, waited for the firemen. Fourth-Grader Ronnie Sarno, 10, fought to a window, called out to his nine-year-old sister Joanne: "I'm going to jump! Do you want to come?" As he eased himself over the sill, he heard her scream: "Don't jump, Ron! Don't jump!" And never saw her alive again...
...demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert from ambush and wrecking his home with hand grenades given them by a friendly Army supply sergeant at Fort Sill, Okla...
...Previous Heil finds: a Verrocchio marble statue on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill (TIME, March 14, 1949) and a Gentile Bellini Doge in the drawer of a Florentine art shop (TIME, April...