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...Army's Colonel Francis Trow Spaulding: he developed (with Navy and Marine help) the United States Armed Forces Institute, which by correspondence lessons and self-teaching textbooks enables thousands of U.S. fighting men on all fronts to get liberal or vocational training (TIME, June 7, 1943); he is playing a big part in planning education for veterans...
Usafi, the alma mater of these students, is at Madison, Wis. Supervising from Washington's Pentagon Building is Harvard's onetime Education School Dean Francis Trow Spaulding, now a colonel in the Army's Special Service Division...
Consider the plight of the Bedford Avenue beauty, the denizen of Section 16, who has lauded his beloved Bums ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia...
More suspicious than most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend...
Hearing that Mrs. Knox had dug in her garden at night, police took spades and unearthed an old kitchen cabinet. Inside, wrapped in a black shroud, were the remains of Mrs. Lucinda Trow, buried about six months. Then police reported that they had found in Abel, la. a decree, dated 1934, purporting to divorce Maybelle Trow from Sumner Knox...