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...first marathon (490 B.C.) killed the winner, Pheidippides.* But skinny, bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...career ended. The Navy announced that in supporting the landings at Ormoc Dec. 7, the converted destroyer-transport Ward, commanded by Lieut. Richard E. Farwell, was struck by aerial torpedoes along with the 1,450-ton destroyer Mohan, had to be abandoned and sunk. They were the 48th and 49th U.S. destroyers lost in World...
...days after the landings on Mindoro, U.S. fighter planes in the Philippines briskly turned their main attention to knocking out Japanese air power on the far richer target of Luzon. Joining in the fun, as usual, were the "Forty-niners," men of the Fifth Air Force's famed 49th Fighter Group, first expeditionary unit of the Army Air Forces to go overseas...
...Manila. Last September the 49th's Ninth squadron was the first U.S. fighter outfit to hit the Philippines. In October the Forty-niners arrived on Leyte, to base there. They could boast of having bred most of the Southwest Pacific's fighter aces, including eleven currently in action. Their biggest continuing source of pride is Major Bong, now a roving gunnery instructor who occasionally roves with his old buddies. On a sweep over Mindoro last week, Dick Bong bagged his second Jap fighter in a week, ran his score...
King George VI celebrated his 49th birthday? by giving the first dance at Buckingham Palace since World War II began?a birthday ball with 100 invited guests and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, attending their first ball in London...