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...evening early in 1942 Harris Wofford Jr., 15, was doing his Latin homework and simultaneously listening to his favorite radio program, Mr. District Attorney. When the program ended he did not switch off the radio, because by then he was in the tub. Thus it was that he shortly heard a speaker advancing the merits of Clarence (Union Now) Streit's plan for a federal union of the world's democracies...
Young Mr. Wofford Jr. arose from his bath a convert. Bicycling around suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., he swiftly enlisted a number of his friends at Scarsdale High School in the first student chapter of Streit's Federal Union...
Last week Harris Wofford Jr., 18, was an Army Air Forces trainee at Alabama's Craig Field. On Armistice Day, his Student Federalists, now several thousand strong in schools and colleges throughout the U.S., celebrated its first anniversary as a national organization...
...identify himself, he would describe himself as "of Sumter." He must have moved from Sumter County with his family before he was a year old, and we cannot discover any record of his having visited here since that time. Robert Henry Best, the United Press correspondent, graduated from Wofford College, in Spartanburg, S.C. in 1916. . . . Although he lived in Spartanburg as a young man, he has not revisited that city since...
...Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16/ 96; Wofford College (Spartanburg), B.A. '16 . . . Abroad since...