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One day last August, a spry, 78-year-old Wetumka, Okla. farmer named J. M. Carter excitedly handed a copy of a local newspaper to his wife Martha Ellen. Their son, 19-year-old Pfc. James Madison Carter, said a news dispatch from Korea, had been decorated with the Silver...
Since they had received no word from the Army in the two months since the action described in the paper, the Carters assumed that the letters had been mistakenly stamped in Korea. Wetumka's Postmaster Bill Nicks, irate at what seemed like mishandling of the mail, fired an airmail...
Tobacco & Trinkets. Sverdrup, still a civilian, hopped to Australia to plan a vital supply highway from Melbourne to Darwin. Later, after donning a colonel's uniform, he led the building of 200 airstrips and airfields and scores of military roads and bridges. The landing fields on New Guinea were...
In his syndicated "Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to...
Readers less forgetful than Harriet Reeves promptly took Rose to task. Wasn't his tale the same as a short story of Evelyn Waugh's, first published in 1936 under the title "Bella Fleace Gave a Party'? Waugh's story told about a lonely, eccentric Irishwoman...