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...Tenn. 67 3 Wyo...
...Fred Gurley is as used to trouble as a railroad man can be. He started at the bottom; his first job (1906) was as a clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
...young Harvard-educated prosecutor who likes to think of himself as the Wild West's Tom Dewey last week could carve four more notches in his briefcase. His victims: Cheyenne, Wyo.'s mayor, chief of police and two cops...
...only Allied casualty was one plane knocked down offshore. To rescue its American pilot-Lieut, (j.g.) Dale Christian Klahn of Laramie, Wyo.-twelve Hellcats swarmed over a nearby Japanese destroyer, pounded warming-up Jap planes on land bases. A British submarine went to the rescue. It surfaced under shore-battery range, coolly scooped up Klahn and submerged while 6-in. shells laced the water around the conning tower. For the Japanese it must have seemed a harebrained performance to salvage one expendable...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...