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The following month, McGovern was abruptly ordered to return to the U.S. He hauled the 90,000 feet of color footage, on dozens of reels in huge footlockers, to the Pentagon and turned it over to General Orvil Anderson.
Greg Mitchell: The Great Hiroshima Cover-up: How the U.S. Hid Shocking Historic Footage for Decades Greg Mitchell 2011
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How about a woman named “Golden Dickie” and two brothers named Orvil and Wilbur Queer? valencia yang
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Arriving in New York, I was told at the Times that the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, had been contacted by Netherlands ambassador J.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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Arriving in New York, I was told at the Times that the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, had been contacted by Netherlands ambassador J.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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Arriving in New York, I was told at the Times that the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, had been contacted by Netherlands ambassador J.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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At thirty-eight Grant had failed at every civilian job he had put his hand to, obliging him to become a clerk in his father's firm, Grant & Perkins, which "sold harnesses and other leather goods providing new straps for old saddles" (William McFeely's Grant), and the business was run not by failure Grant but by his younger brother Orvil.
Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange Vidal, Gore 1988
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I am sorry to say that I do not get favorable news from Orvil.
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 Ed 1912
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I at once wrote to Orvil, whose arrival at Galena I learned from Burk's letter, to urge Simpson to come by steamer to St. Louis and spend some time with me, and if it should prove necessary for anyone to accompany him, I would take him home.
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 Ed 1912
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I have written to you once from this place and received no answer, but as Orvil writes to me that you express great anxiety to hear from me often, I will try to find time to drop you a line twice a month, and oftener when anything of special interest occurs.
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 Ed 1912
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I wrote to Simpson to come down and see me but as I have had no answer from him nor from Orvil to a letter written some time before, I do not know whether he will come or not.
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 Ed 1912
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