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...Hays, Johnstown, N. Y.; John S. Holcenberg, Seattle, Wash.; John G. Johnson, Des Moines, Iowa; Lawrence C. Jordan, Denver, Col.; James P. Jorgensen, W. Palm Beach, Fla.; Abba J. Kastin, Cleveland Hghts, Ohio; Richard L. Plaut Jr., New York City; David P. Segel, Newton, Mass.; Richard M. Stenson, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Robert H. Washer, Rockville, Center, N. Y.; Joseph B. Yeaton, Hamilton, Mass.; Noble Smith, Marblehead, Mass.; Steven J. Schneider, New York City; Clifford F. Thompson, Kansas City, Kan.; Benjamin D. Adams, Cambridge, Mass...
...western plains produced few nobler redskins than Chief Sitting Bull, last great leader of the Sioux tribes. It was Sitting Bull, driven to recklessness by the perfidy of the U.S. Government, who cried, "Let us have one big fight with the soldiers," and assembled the awesome army that wiped out General George Custer and soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. But 14 years later, conquered by the forces of the Great White Father, Sitting Bull was old, fat and quiet. One frosty morning in 1890, a detachment of Indian police galloped...
Lonely Grave. After the Army pulled out of Fort Yates in 1903, Sitting Bull's grave lay untended under the scraggly grass of the deserted parade ground. Then, last fall, a 78-year-old Sioux patriarch named Clarence Grey Eagle went on the warpath. He had witnessed the great chief's death when he was a boy of 16; when he heard that the grave was to be covered with water from the new Oahe Dam, he hurried indignantly to Mobridge (pop. 3,800), S.Dak. Would the Chamber of Commerce build a memorial, he asked, if he moved...
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...Omaha, a local drama critic gave Katharine Cornell the privilege of reviewing her own opening performance of The Constant Wife. Sample of the Cornell review: "I am afraid we were a little too swift tonight . . . But really, I do think we were all better than we were in Sioux City ... If I were to grade tonight's performance, I'd give it a B-plus...