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Married. Lieut. Colonel Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 44, crusading founder and editor-on-leave of Manhattan's irrepressible tabloid PM, wartime best-selling author (The Battle Is the Payoff), kin of oldtime New York's "400" arbiter, Ward McAllister; and Elaine Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court...
...Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical novels of early America (Richard Carvel, The Crisis, etc.) were best-sellers...
SNAFU & FIFO. The War Department knew full well that the system would provoke plenty of G.I. gripes, home-front anguish and trouble for the Army. Congressmen's mail is already heavy with letters from kin demanding to know why Joe can't come home. Congressmen themselves, breathing the air of victory, are causing the Army anxiety with their new eagerness to move in on things...
Recommended in bills now before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees were national cemeteries in U.S. territories and 42 states (in addition to the 92 now in existence, where 483,000 veterans of former wars and their nearest kin are buried). The War Department and its grave-keeping Quartermaster Corps had asked $122,900,000 for 79 new cemeteries, with a capacity of 5,335,000 graves...
...surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...