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...next day Private Corey Small died from a gunshot wound "in a noncombat incident," and Private First Class Jim Herrgott was killed by a sniper as he guarded the Iraqi National Museum. Three days later, Sergeant David Parson was shot in Baghdad while raiding a house, and Specialist Jeffrey Wershow was shot in the back of the head while guarding a U.S. delegation at Baghdad University. The next day gunner Chad Keith died when a bomb blew up his convoy on a Baghdad street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: A Soldier's Life | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

JULY 6 JEFFREY WERSHOW RANK: Specialist * AGE 22 * Gainesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: 7 Days 7 Deaths | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

...Jeffrey Wershow consumed book after book about epic wars and battle strategies. His interest was more than academic. Wershow's prep school had no ROTC program, so he participated in one through a local public school. In 1999, after graduating from high school, he joined the Army. He told his mother Anne Marie Mattison, left, and his father Jon Wershow, a former county commissioner, that he would serve a tour as an enlisted man, then go to college and officer-candidate school. Jeffrey believed the experience would later earn him more respect from the troops. After a three-year stint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: 7 Days 7 Deaths | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

Cigar smoke thickened, and as the Scotch bottles emptied, so did tongues. Wershow droned on. "I have pleasure in selling Lloyd Mangrum. He has his house built and paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High Rollers | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Comedians Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante took turns spelling Wershow. Busy cracking wise, Hope accidentally bought the same player he had lost money on last year: Bo Wininger. "My God!" he shouted. "Don't tell me I've got him! I don't want him." But Hope had him, for $6,500. Hope did better with Dentist Gary Middlecoff, "master of the chip and middle inlay." Middlecoff brought $16,000. Durante managed to sell Ted Kroll for $10,000. ("Didja ever see this fella Kroll's legs? A regular croquet player.") Top price ($16,500) went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High Rollers | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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