Roanoke Captain Tells Moogaloogoo Saga From New Guinea
An elderly Roanoke captain recalls World War II firefighting on New Guinea at a deserted church Moogaloogoo. He describes a last stand against 4,000 Japanese with 80 scouting reinforcements, a loyalty line drawn in dirt, and a lone survivor who escaped into the jungle.
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Dudley
John Smith
Roanoke
Austin
New Guinea
Smith
Moogaloogoo
MacArthur
Hopie
Hooie
Republicans Tricky on West Conservation Policy
A 1948 column argues Truman leads on Western conservation versus Dewey as the 80th Congress slows reclamation. It cites John Taber and Styles Bridges, warns of oil and tidelands issues, and calls for disclosure on transmission lines and dam construction. Governor Warren is cited pressuring lawmakers in Washington.
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Harold L. Ickes
Truman
Governor Dewey
West
Dewey
Congress
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
80Th Congress
Bureau of Reclamation
House
John Taber
Federal Treasury
Taber
Republican Party
Styles Bridges
Earl Warren
California
Tidelands
Mr. Dewey
N. ¥. Post Corporation
Questions and Answers on Editorial Standards and Language
The excerpt cites 1948 standards by the Association of Comic Magazine Publishers forbidding crime glamorization and weak portrayal of authorities. It also includes notes on language origins, dictionary word counts, and Selective Service Act penalties, plus a 900 area designation in a World War II memorial district.
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Association of Comic Magazine Publishers
Ares
Faith in Austin Evident in $2 Million Southwestern Bell Expansion
The article notes Southwestern Bell plans a new two story central station in North Austin with land and equipment costing about $2,006,000 and 12,000 telephone capacity. It cites UT bids for a student hospital and science building over $5,000,000 and outlines broader state and local development plans fueling Austin’s growth and confidence in future economic expansion.
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Austin
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Stormy” Davis
Southwestern Bell
University of Texas
Capitol Planning Commission
Appropriations
Austin Public Schools
Austin Area Economic Development Foundation
Paratroops Help Berlin Occupation Clean Out Soviet Mongols
In Berlin early occupation days General Clay describes paratroopers flushing out 15 000 Soviet Mongol deserters. Paratroopers beat and killed some, loaded the rest into trucks and sent them to the Russian sector amid court martial risk.
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Berlin
Drew Pearson
Washington
Lucius Clay
Clay
Siberian Plains
Broadway gossip and high society links in 1940s wires
Winchell on Broadway columns disclose divorces and romances among Ava Gardner Jennifer overseas unions in flux Laverne Andrews and others wed Oct 15 Citations include Nancy Davis Clark Gable Kay Summersby and Nancy Choremi amid Hollywood gossip and political notes with references to Eisenhower Sheen and Taft Hartley debates.
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D. C
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ICC
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Stasse
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Pearl Harbor
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Nancy Choremi
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Casablanca
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Hamlet
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Lahey Clinic
Boston
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L. Rogers
Coasters
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Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda
J. Stalin
Wallace
Elizabeth Bentley
Reds
Thomas Committee
Wichita
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Representative Hartley
Look
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Maurice Roccos
Hokum
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Gould
Billy Seeman
Marie Johnson
Girltown
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Candy Jones
Zog
Evelyn Leslie
G. Mackworth-Young
Welch
King Farouk
New York
Manas Rajah
Baroda
Wee Me Saas
Jim Brady
Milan
Agnelli
Pamela Churchill
Associated Press
Austin American
Aafter
Texas
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