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Ho Claims He Is ItFrancis J. Kiiroy of Everett, Mass., a former Army All* forces sergeant, claims that it’s no mystery, Francis J. says that he Is tho original Kiiroy.He was attending radio school in St. Petersburg, Fla., when it all started, Fiancis was well-liked by ills cliLHJitimles and they missed liJm when ho became ill and had to go to Lbc hospital.1C very day a notice would be nohted: “Five more days until Kiiroy Is here Or three more days until Kiiroy returns. And finally, Kiiroy is hove.The Army Air forces hns another explanation. Officials claim that the gag got under way because an irate company norrnnnndnr never could locate an absent-minded named Kihoy.The orderly board always had a r.otc reading: Kiiroy, report toyour captain.Tho Legend SpreadsLater a buddy of Kilroy's Went to England and started putting upsigns saving, Kiiroy will be here, Kiiroy, himself, however went to Italy and the legend spread from there,Mrs. Harold Coffman of Los Angeles, Calif., appeared on a recent radio show, won a trolley car because she said “Kiiroy was started by an RCAF pilot who was downed in France. She said he would leave the phrase Kilrcy was here on sidewalks and walls just to taunt the Nazis.A Boston shipyard inspector, appearing on the same show, also won a trolley. He claimed to have started the legend by writing KiiroyPsychiatrist’s Explanation - JA Manhattan psychiatrist believes that he has the real answer.Kiiroy. he said, is just a means of expression. It gives the average person—especially the soldier—a feeling of identity.It helped Joe Dogface to fed, despite the planes, bombs, and tanks, that he too was still important.l\jAsA. fe-: v Ml it :lt;a Vi-,- '■*'$'**; v;rIDIXOH'WASHINGTON. Dec. 27 (INS).— For a correspondent who normally does not concentrate on crusading, an honest sort of objectivity in reporting and commenting is perhaps the most pertinent gcal.Yet, real objectivity is somewhatlike perfection—a quality always sought but never purely attained.So as the end of the year draw's near, a roving columnist is inclinedto look backward over 12 months, 40,000 miles and work In Borne 45 states to see how cl os a he came to his goal on the controversial stories covered. ,Letters From ReaderstheJr cars on company propertysince 1938 ... Until now the members didn't realize that they had been working while backing and fro-ing. _Walter Kicrnflti’But what a thrill to leuin llmt the hours vvc'vo spent In ImLClc Jama may bo charged back Ln our employers . . . Donblo-time iC therewas much horn-blowing,I hear thaL the Supreme court is resolving to look for cracks in pottery decisions before issuing them in the New Year.• I also hear tlmt Lewis is getting up a list of resolutions . . . The last one says Resolved thal these resolutions can be reopened in fill days by either party provitled it'.*:me.'Sound Beam Box'Will Assist BlindNEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UP) —Alfred Dtea, a medical student lr Washington university, St. Louis; Hilda Laufer, medical student at Syracuse university, and VieLoiTwersky, a senior in City college of New York, were credited today with perfecting a sound beam box to help blind persons hear’: obstacles in front of them.The box, about the size cf a flashlight, Is based on the same principle of the Army's mine detector. It uses a beam of high frequency
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1946
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