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...morning Peewee was acting as supply sergeant for her company when Private Kenny Jacobs came into the WAC's kitchen. Helpfully he poured some gasoline into the stove to prime it, splashed some on his clothes, set himself afire and collapsed in a mass of flames. Peewee threw herself on him, smothered the fire with her body, beat it out with her bare hands. Private Jacobs was carried off to the hospital, lucky to be alive; Peewee was carried off with him, for treatment of burns on her face and legs...
...postwar hot-stove debates about who really won the war, a respectful hearing will have to be given to the claims of a mildly wacky group of scientific playboys - the amateur stargazers and telescope-makers" (TIME...
...postwar hot-stove debates about who really won the war, a respectful hearing will have to be given to the claims of a mildly wacky group of scientific playboys-the amateur stargazers and telescope-makers. Without them, U.S. ordnance men would have been hard up for gun sights. These amateurs, who turned from telescopes to making essential roof prisms* for sights, have been considered so important in the war effort that they worked under aliases. Last week they finally gave their right names...
...Reyburn home in Bonham is a big white house with twelve rooms, four 20-ft. white columns in front, four sleeping porches, 14 rocking chairs and almost as many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...
...Bonham general store, rides about the ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas...