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The sharp-nosed Major was young, had been a G.I. (drafted in 1942), had served six years in the state legislature (where he blocked a pardon for Tom Mooney in 1937), was married, had three children, had been an A-1-A joiner and charity-drive organizer. Besides, the Major...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...
When Arsenic and Old Lace opened in London in 1942, a great many people doubted whether war-torn Britons would find murder and madness very amusing. Last week, with its 1,050th performance, Arsenic nosed out Edward Sheldon's Romance to become the longest-running U.S. play in London...
The first move to deport Harry Bridges started in 1934. That was about the same time that the long-faced, long-nosed, Australian-born longshoreman emerged as the militant leader of the West Coast maritime strike. The charge: he was a Communist.