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...liked but seldom got: "This isn't a letter of sympathy. Not at all. Rather it's a letter telling you how much I appreciate what you've done for our country." The letter was signed by Beverly Jean Hall, 18, who lived in nearby Wilmington, Ill. That night Ed asked his brother to drive him over to Wilmington to meet Beverly. "I didn't even think of him as Private Reeves, the amputee," said Beverly. "He was a nice-looking...
...morning mist last week, a delegation from New Jersey, headed by Governor Alfred Driscoll, drove slowly across the two-mile length of the new Delaware Memorial Bridge. Delaware's Governor Elbert Carvel was waiting at Pigeon Point, just below Wilmington on the Delaware side. After appropriate speeches and snipping of ribbons, the long lines of waiting trucks and cars started across the $44 million span. Within 24 hours, 20,000 paid toll to bypass the tedious old New Castle-Pennsville ferry; they saved an average two hours on the Jersey route between New York and points south...
...just came down from Peking," said Wilmington, through a puff of pipe smoke. The U.N. newsmen crowded around to find out how things are in Communist China. They got a rosy report...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
Russia's party-line science is doomed to fail and its progress ultimately will almost stop, President Conant stated last night at a dinner marking the dedication of a $30,000,000 Dupont Experimental station in Wilmington, Delaware...