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    Timuel Black: Cheating death during World War II

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    Timuel Black, AM’54, remembers how “the flip of a coin” may have saved him from death on the beaches of Normandy—and how his mother’s words helped him endure the horrors of World War II. UChicago Creative

    Oct 20, 2014

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