London Night Flight a Newspaperman’s First Night
Ernie Pyle recalls arriving in wartime London, collapsed into blackout streets and a Savoy welcome. He notes London’s quiet, moonlit eeriness, the need for care in navigation, and reconnecting with PM journalist Ben Robertson and other editors over a late dinner.
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London
George Lait
George
British Isles
Kenedy County Highway Opens End to Walled Kingdom
The opening of State Highway 96 through Kenedy County ends the era of the Walled Kingdom of Kenedy. The King Ranch and Kenedy interests yielded a deeded right‑of‑way in exchange for a barbed wire fence and concessions, finishing a 20 year road project. Santa Gertrudis remains the ranch headquarters near Kingsville, with the King Ranch holdings once totaling 1.25 million acres now managed by the King Ranch Corporation.
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Kenedy County
Kingdom of
Kenedy
King
Big Bend
Rio Grande
Rio Grande Valley
Corpus Christi
Texas
Klebergs
King Ranch
Kenedys
Raymondville
Orange
Brownsville
Richard King
Santa Gertrudis
Kingsville
Robert E. Lee
U. S. Army
Mifflin Kenedy
Robert J. Kleberg
Alice King
Mr. Kleberg
Atwood Heirs
Chicago
Are you good company as Dale Carnegie urges
The piece cites Wash Duke and Death Valley Scotty as examples of people who valued good company. It argues that being interesting and agreeable makes others glad to see you and spreads happiness like perfume.
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Washington Duke
Great Tobacco Fortune
North Carolina
America
Gulliver
Wash
Duke
Duke University
Scotland
Lake Maggiore
Italy
Europe
Old Wash
Dr . G. Carr
Durham
Dr. Carr
Death Valley Scotty
Los Angeles
Chicago
A.M Jonson
Company
Johnson
Death Valley
Scotty
Chessboard Ballet in a Nazi Plot Turned Spy Code
Brinda deciphers a chess inspired coded message during a theater performance while Nazi agents plot invasion. Sir John and Dick rush to protect Brinda as Vaslav’s scheme unravels, and an audience is held as the intelligence service acts.
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Badoureff
Brinda
Lord Mountwyn
Lady Glady
Sir John
Doctor McDonald
Gladys
Mme. Badoureff
Prince Vaslav
Vaslav
Debussy
Admiralty
Hitler
Mountwyn
England
Scotland Yard
Dr. MacDonald
Jock
George
Vaslav's
Mounton
Harlow
John
Queen
Knight
Dick Malden
Sir John Sanderson
Intelligence Office
Today’s Puzzle Horizon 1 Chronology and Clues
A dense jumble of horizontal and vertical word clues lists calendar references Julius Caesar calendar adoption dates and related terms. The puzzle lists several Latin based hints plus cross references to months numbers and ancient events, with many entries suggesting translations and abbreviations.
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Julius Caesar
Famous Shakespeare and Keats Openings Recalled
The reader lists famous sonnet lines and asks for authors and titles.
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