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...through the rain-sodden Chin River Valley appeared in the Dec. 18,1939, issue. "All through the valley," White wrote, "tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were caught and killed by the Chinese. The Chinese have advanced during the war from a fourth-rate army to a second-rate army. [It] has spirit. It glows. The men are willing to die. They...
From the three downtown Tuscaloosa churches, where 1,500 listened to the simple 18-min. service, it is 51 miles to Birmingham, where Bryant was buried. On the cold Friday morning, Alabamans lined the first mile of the route four deep, and all of the way in ones and twos. When the white hearse, followed by hundreds of cars, came to the hospital where Bryant had died, scrub-suited surgeons stepped outside with masks dangling. The cortege passed the university where Bryant had played his college football and where he coached 25 of his 38 head-coaching seasons, winning...
...looked like a cross between a gigantic camp meeting and the gathering of the lost tribes of Israel. First singly, then in twos and threes, finally by the trainload, land-hungry Americans gathered along the edges of a stretch of the Oklahoma Territory known as the Unassigned Lands. Through most of April 1889, soldiers patrolled the edges of the area to keep anyone from crossing into the territory prematurely...
...local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert for an outsider who does not appear...
...midfield was much improved," said Captain John Dugaan. "Mauro did what we wanted him to do," and we had; some quick one-twos that worked well...