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...Marine Division, under Major General Allen Hal Turnage, formed the left flank of the drive north, and the Army's 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division, under Major General Andrew D. Bruce, formed the right. The ist Provisional Marine Brigade had mopped up Orote, whose airstrip...
Slow Growth. The Cavendish family first appeared in 1366, when Sir John, the lord of Cavendish Overhall, acquired a seat on the King's Bench. In 1530 Sir William placed a firm foundation under the family fortunes while serving as a commissioner for Henry VIII. Bluff King Hal had yet to put away Catholic Catherine of Aragon, but was already breaking up the church monasteries and preparing to establish the Protestant Church of England. A share of the extensive Catholic lands fell to Sir William Cavendish...
Tigers. Strong in pitching: Paul Trout (4-F), Hal Newhouser (4-F), Frank Overmire (4-F). Weak in hitting...
Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...
Enlisted men of the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy have a new game to fight off boredom and jitters. When they play it, they say they are "living on Floogle Street." In one form of the pastime (noted by A.P.man Hal Boyle) two soldiers waiting at the mess hall begin talking in low, serious tones...