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...went ahead with production, the Dramatic Club heard from Lee Strasburg, veteran Broadway producer, who announced that he would be unsble to direct "The Survivor" owing to pressure of other duties. However, he did consent to join Drian Shaw, the play's author, in revising the HDC script...
...bald President Frederick Ely Williamson, 67, took over the key eastern region with the rank of colonel. Six other major railroad heads also became uniformed colonels overnight-then continued at their desks. (A lieutenant was even assigned to a four-mile-long, two-employe railroad in Strasburg, Pa. Four days later the Army decided the road could run without his help.) In Washington, the Army's able Chief of Transportation, Major General C. P. Gross, and his knowing staff of borrowed railroadmen, continued to work closely with the railroads in the titanic task of shuttling troops and supplies across...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...
...Strasburg, France! Alors! the left banks of the Rhine like a strange phantom, in the gray light of morning walks a French soldier. With a bayonet slung determinedly over his shoulder, past a narrow bridge leading across to Germany, he walks back and for the, back and forth. A large truck rumbles cup to him stops, and two men in uniform climb out, dragging machine guns after them...
Many another scientist's wife has struggled with her famed husband's indifference to practical life, his desire for isolation. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French chemist, obtained protection by marrying the rector's daughter of Strasburg Academy while he was professor at the University of Strasburg. Emma Wedgwood of the English pottery family became the wife of her cousin, young Charles Darwin (1809-82). Although she loved theatres, gay parties, she was very religious, regretted that Charles was not. He made her promise, however, never to interfere with his work on Evolution. During acute attacks...