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Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker came from Yoakum, Tex. The son of a Methodist minister, he studied at minuscule Southwestern University, spent a few months in the army as a telegraph operator on the ...

As a boy on the streets of Raritan, N.J., John Basilone used to run alongside the Italian peddlers’ carts, shouting at the top of his voice, “Any vegetables today, lady?” John was a lively boy; he had ...

Almost as soon as they began trailing Scientist X around Berkeley, Calif, back in 1943, atomic security agents began to have grave doubts about his reliability. Though he toiled faithfully enough at ...