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...first purpose was accomplished at luncheons, dinners and off-the-record conferences in Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, Boise's Hotel Boise, Seattle's Masonic Temple, Tacoma's American Legion Hall and Portland's Multnomah Hotel. Newsmen, recalling the hostility-charged Willkie confabs in St. Louis and Washington last year, noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week...
Next night, at Tacoma's Masonic Temple, in the major speech of the trip, Wendell Willkie returned to this theme...
...native of Tacoma, Washington, Lieutenant Corse first lasted active duty at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in August...
Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed his appendix, stitched...