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...grounds: it would be nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...
Artie Shaw, mercurial bandleader, married Elizabeth Jane Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern, in Yuma, Ariz. Exes: Cinemactress Lana Turner, Cinedirector Richard Alan Green...
...Other particularly able scouts are American Indians in the 31st. One is Corporal Peter Flame, a 200-pound Yuma, Ariz, former football player and champion boxer, who bashfully hangs his head when reporting another sniper potted. Another is tall, lean Joe Longknife from a Montana reservation. On a recent raid he rose up out of tall grass, killed ten Japs with 16 shots, dispersed the rest with hand grenades. When he was a youngster Joe listened to tales of raiding parties told him by his father. Old Longknife, and his grandfather, Old Old Longknife...
...noteworthy family man. Maria Veronica Balfe Cooper was born three years ago. Some time later Mrs. Cooper took the baby to Phoenix, Ariz., when Coop was going on location for the desert picture Beau Geste in the sandy wastes of Arizona's Buttercup Valley, 19 miles east of Yuma. In Phoenix the baby got sick. After working a while, Coop wanted to phone Phoenix about her, but the nearest phone was in Yuma and a wild sandstorm was blocking the wooden road that led out of the Valley to the State road. Coop knew he could hitchhike to Yuma...
...tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...