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...days. Then Rector Goormaghtigh had another meeting with the Minister of Education. In the face of such fury, the minister backed down, urged the rector to stay on, promised to let him choose his own professor of clinical surgery. At week's end, loyal Flemings had agreed to troop back to class...
American forces in Germany, he said, were the best influences for democracy there, although he "would not defend our troop's actions in the period immediately after the fall of Germany." These men in 1945, he explained, were fresh from facing the German on the battlefield...
Died. Charles A. Windolph, 98, early Congressional Medal of Honor winner, onetime cavalry private under Major General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) where he held an exposed outpost; at Lead, S.D. Promoted to sergeant on the battlefield, Windolph was in Troop H, part of two flanking detachments of the 7th Cavalry which were half destroyed while Custer and 264 troops under his direct command were annihilated...
...20th Century-Fox). When Willie went marching off, the little town of Punxsutawney gave him a sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...
...when it arrived. The food had been prepared in the kitchens of the Mayflower and Statler Hotels and had been rushed to the armory in special heater-equipped trucks. An army of 625 waiters was on hand to serve it. The serving-men were drilled as meticulously as a troop of light cavalry and they were controlled by an intricate traffic-light system: when the lights turned red, they retired from the floor; when the lights flashed green, they charged forth en masse to clear or serve...