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...Soon, however, Cooper's elongated syllables marked him as no son of New England or Middle West. The truth came out. He was a renegade Virginian who had resigned his West Point commission only to reaccept it in time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous Yankee colonel (I think from Vermont) whom Cooper brought to grief in the final reel. Save your Yankee dollars boys, the Nawth will rise again...
...lead the way to new offices. Others were temporarily stymied until the old civil-service retainers showed them how to order such basic items as pencils and paper clips. The usually efficient White House switchboard got calls mixed up. And one of Ike's personal secretaries, Wave Chief Yeoman Helen Weaver (who has 20 medals as a crack pistol shot), got lost for a while on an errand between the east and west wings of the White House...
Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect their beloved ag. And finally on April 9, 1946, the old-timers and hold-overs heartily thanked Art Hopkins and Mrs. Hoke for their yeoman service to the Service News and then threw the CRIMSON back into the lineup. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop 44 Bow St. that day to make things official...
Last week 37 of the 43 Beefeaters still under warrant organized Branch 338 of the Civil Service [trade] Union. Even after the union raised its age limit to 65, four were ineligible (the oldest, Yeoman David Sprake, is 84) ; two others refused to join. Said one: "When you mount guard, you may know that nowadays there are no marauders outside the Tower and no prisoners inside. But you wouldn't stop mounting guard, would you? You just can't keep changing things...
...Junior Senator. The Dixiecrat dilemma nearly tore the South apart. When the election was over, Sparkman joined with Senator Lister Hill and Governor Gordon Persons in a fight to insure that that dilemma would never again horn in on Alabama. The yeoman work was done by Lister Hill. Junior Senator Sparkman, whose rudimentary personal "machine" consisted largely of north Alabama farmers and his brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, led the fight against the Dixiecrats in the "loyalist" northern section of the state. Hill, whose personal following was tremendous, carried the ball in southern Alabama, a Dixiecrat stronghold. By January...