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Billings and Stover is selling the drug for the first time in about ten years. A druggist there said yesterday that around 1942 the University had requested them not to sell "No-Doz." He said they had abided by the request for ten years, but that this year had begun to sell it again, since, as he put it, "even grocery stores in the area stock...
...women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
...farm at Myrtle Point. Ore. last week, 85-year-old Theodore Milton ("Tex") Stover got to reminiscing about one of his nephews, a youngster named Dwight Eisenhower, whom he last saw when Ike was nine. "That boy kinda worried his mother," said Uncle Tex. "We used to talk about that boy-thought he might become a criminal ... he was such a fun-loving youngster. He used to saw the backs off the kitchen chairs, but we could never see him do it." Stover said he was proud of the boy today, but still planned to vote as he always...
...paternal side, the first Eisenhowers (who spelled it "Eisenhauer") settled in Pennsylvania between 1730 and 1740; the general's grandfather, Jacob Eisenhower, a leader of the River Brethren sect of Mennonites, moved his family to Kansas in 1878. On the maternal side, the general's forebears (named Stover or Stoewer) were also German immigrants who prospered in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley until the Civil War brought hardship and destruction...
...explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...