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Where is George K. Hollingsworth?
Continued

    Scanning back issues of my own magazine after returning home, the
name of George K. Hollingworth appeared as a member of the faculty of
Kansas State University, Manhatan, Kansas, in the Department of Aero-
space Studies.  My letter to him of 14 April this year was returned and 
marked "Not at this address." Temporarily, I suspended operations on 
the project: too many cases like this hamper research. (Scan any big 
city telephone directory nowadays.  You'll see thousands of names with 
number only! A horrible sign of the times.)
    At any rate, it is now a fact that George K. Holling(s)worth was 
at Pearl Harbor on that Day of Infamy.  In a little over a year from 
now it will be just fifty years.  If some of my subscribers - or read-
ers - know where this man lives, or last lived, please get in touch. 
(Sorry.  My telephone is not listed.  I, too, fell for privacy.)
    The name, indeed, may still have been Hollingsworth, not Holling-
worth.  The author of "One Sunday Morning" could have made a mistake.
James Jones knew his corporal, we would assume, better.

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Additional: Frank Sinatra took the role of "Maggio" who dies from a
brutal beating.  Maggio was one of the few rea1 life names left un-
changed by Jones in his novel, which seems to indicate that the story
about his death may have been unchanged fact.  The soldier who killed 
him did undergo a name change.

Birmingham, Alabama in 1919 - Hollingsworths in City Directory

Page 907 col 2:
Ho11ingsworth, Annie (colored), domestic, home 302 5tb PC 
 " Carrabell teacher Ens Community House, boards 1404 Ave H Ens*
 " Crawford W (Leona) bricklayer home Rosedale
 " Edith K. clerk Doster-Northington boards 6514 Division Avenue
 " Edward C. boards C. W. Hollingsworth (see Crawford W. - Ed.)
 " Elvira (colored) laundress home 407 Center Ens
 " Ethel, student, boards 1627 Ash avenue, Fairview
 " James H (Lula) engineer home 2512 Avenue G Ens
 " James H (Sara E) engineer Frisco home 1715 34th North
 " John D (colored) laborer, home 10 Rock Quarry quarters
 " John E (Della) salesman Franklin Stiles
 " Mary (widow J P) boards 2509 26th Avenue north
 " Monroe P (Lela C) asst. secretary, Birminghan Civic Association,
    r	1230 South 20th
 " Samuel H fireman Frisco home 1715 34th Ave north
 " Samuel R (Dora) machinist, home 1619 Ash Avenue, Fairview
 " S. Clancy clerk Doster-Northington boards 6514 Division Ave
 " William (Doretta) machinist home 2509 26th Ave north
 " William M (Mattie) agent Cherokee Life home 2212 31st Ave north

From R.L. Polk & Co 1919-1920 Directory, Birmingham, Ala, Vol XXXIV, 
copy at Los Angeles Central Library.


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