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Index

Page numbers in
italics
indicate photographs

Abbott, Bud, 107

taunting of, 4, 29, 35, 48–49,

Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 96–97, 158

140–41; laughter and, 45–46;

Alexander, H. M., 84, 92, 93