Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
When the Japanese invaded Malaya, a plain-faced Eurasian woman named Sybil Kathigasu was living in the town of Ipoh with her doctor-husband, Addon, and their four-year-old daughter, Dawn. The Kathigasus moved into the interior, took up farming, and started a "grow more food'' campaign. After a while the Japanese discovered what else the Kathigasus were doing: a radio in Sybil's bedroom picked up information which was relayed to the guerrillas; wounded resistance fighters and British stragglers were sheltered and given medical treatment in their house...
Cardinal Mindszenty was 56, precise, ascetic. Guests at his dinners got such meager fare that they counted on picking up another meal afterward. His town house on Budapest's Var Hill still showed bomb scars, and he lived in only two rooms of it. But Hungarian peasants understood his blunt speech. He told them to stop reading government newspapers and stop listening to the radio. In a pastoral letter he proclaimed: "To the bitter disgrace of this country, falsehood, deceit and terror were never greater...
General Omar Bradley, the Army's versatile Chief of Staff, did a little low-level navigation outside his old home town of Moberly, Mo. Flying in from Washington through rain and poor visibility, the general peered out the window, spotted a few landmarks, guided the confused Army pilot safely to the airport...
Bill Voiselle lumbered out from the bullpen last week like a shaggy, loose-jointed bear. On his back was a big "96," the name of his home town* in South Carolina. All he seemed to need was a coon dog jogging at his heels. With 24,174 pairs of eyes on him and the bases loaded with hostile Chicago Cubs, Big Bill began to pitch...