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...five hose companies from nearby towns and lots laid blankets of water over the area, managed to shield nearby film vaults and buildings. The firemen had plenty of help. Actors Burt Lancaster, Ray Bolger, Steve Cochran, Gordon Mac-Rae, and studio Vice President Jack Warner dashed about like real-life heroes, saving whatever they could from the burning shed. In three hours it was all over. The fire (cause undetermined) had destroyed $1,500,000 in buildings and equipment over an area of eight acres. It was the biggest studio blaze in Hollywood's history...
...four guys are selling "Lawton's card," "Jack's card," "Gilroy's Card." "Say, Mac want a winner? We had five Go home a winner...
When the student had completed his unappreciated task, Taft mounted the steps and, to the tune of The Beautiful Ohio, shook hands all around. Instantly brash placards erupted from the crowd, identifying one idea of what kind of cabinet Taft would choose; Mac-Arthur for Defense Secretary, Chiang-Kai-Shek for State Secretary, and so on. Taft, too busy charting his way through the confusion on the platform, ignored the suggestions...
Died. Francis Charles MacDonald, 77, poet, traveler, professor emeritus (since 1936) of Princeton University; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. In 1905 Woodrow Wilson made him one of the first instructors in the now famed preceptorial system. Known as "Mr. Mac" to his undergraduate friends, he befriended and spurred countless Princetonians. He liked intimate poetry readings in his rooms, hated formal lectures ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible"), and never qualified for his profession's union card, the Ph.D. An old bachelor who loved gossip, for years he kept an intimate diary...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...