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...dapper, six-foot, sparely built "shouting Baptist," Jimmie Davis owns two redhill farms totaling 450 acres where he raises pecans and about 40 head of cattle. His wife is the touchstone by which Jimmie (who cannot read music) judges his songs. Says he: "When I have thought up a song, I run through it with my wife who's a graduate in piano from Centenary College. If she doesn't like it, it's going to be a smash...
There they were met at the door by leathery, six-foot Sheriff Bill Richardson, a bolstered .45 gun on his hip, a tommy gun cradled in his arm. To demands for "that nigger raper" Sheriff Richardson replied: "I haven't any such man. . . . Now get back to building ships where you ought to be." The crowd drifted away. Beaumont counted the riot toll: 1 dead white man; 1 dead Negro, 50 treated for injuries, 100 arrested...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
This may not be the best war book of 1943-but it is thorough reporting on one of the most dramatic battles of 1942. Six-foot seven-inch, bespectacled Richard Tregaskis, 26, is an International News Service correspondent who landed with the first Marine contingents to hit the Solomons. For seven weeks, until he was relieved, he lived with the Marines, became as tough and wiry as any. Jap snipers shot at him. Jap pilots strafed and bombed him. On his way out of the islands by bomber he started to write about it all. In Honolulu he finished...
...whole U.S.-yet most citizens have never heard of it. Its name: Brown Shipbuilding Co. Its achievement: low-cost mass production of small naval vessels in one-third Navy-schedule time. Its management: dapper, energetic Herman Brown, 50, and fast-thinking, early-rising George Brown, 44, a pair of six-foot brothers who were construction contractors only 18 months ago. Last week Brown Shipbuilding christened the destroyer escort S. S. Tomich, the eighth ship launched in eight days and a new record for the yard...