Nightlife Snippets and Hollywood Wits at a Glance
A collage of sharp quips and social scenes from the club and studio circuit. Joy Hodges deals with a disruptive deb at a Stork Club table while Rufus Le Maire and 20th Century Fox figures test jokes about faces. Other vignettes recall English Wrens, Columbia studios, and salon chatter with Don Wan and Earl Benham amid Midtown captions and gossip columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus le Maire
20Th Century- Fox
Hollywood
Rufe
New York
Sere
Wilson Milner
Nations Shift as Liberating Armies Advance in 1944
A year end National Geographic bulletin reviews 1944 world changes with Iceland becoming a republic on June 17 and May elections dissolving the union with Denmark. Estonia Latvia Lithuania join Soviet Union while Karelo-Finnish Republic joins as well. France Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands gain freedom as Allied forces advance. The Philippines see Osmena return with MacArthur, and new US backed independence plans for the islands amid ongoing war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iceland
U. S
Sveinn Bjornsson
Denmark
Norway
Rle
Sweden
Tceland
Germany
North Atlantic
Steenter
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Soviet Union
Union
Tts
Viipuri
U. S State Department
France
Roosevelt
Republic of
Syria
U.S
New World
Argentina
Atlantic
Bermuda
Pacific
Sergio Osmena
Douglas MacArthur
Washington
Philippines
United States
Record-Breaking Dams Reflect TVA Expansion Across States
A year of major dam construction saw the Kentucky dam on the Tennessee River near Paducah become TVA’s 21st facility. The Viraile reserve provided vast water storage, while Fan tana near completion would be the eastern US’s largest dam on the Little Tennessee. Denison Dam in Texas claimed the world’s largest rolled-fill earth dam, and Shasta marked California’s vast hydro project, as Norfolk Dam in Arkansas delivered power and flood control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Tennessee River
Paducah
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Cairo
Minnis
United States
Caro
Lina, i
Denison
Texas
Red River
Army Engineers
Gainesville
Washita River
Ravia
Oklaho
Oklahoma
Cumberland
Washita
Valtornia
Shasta
Friant
San Joaquin Valley
Madera
Army
Norfolk
North Fork River
Arkansas
Missouri
Four Stars for Clark and Other War Notes
Washington reports on General Mark Clark’s confirmation path and wartime roles, noting his command in Italy and training troops later deployed in Normandy and along the French coast. The piece surveys U.S. generals, Stalin and de Gaulle talks on postwar Germany, and shifts in Mediterranean shipping, plus a fun jab about Archibald MacLeish and a London fashion quirk for ambassadors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Clark
Senate
Mark Clark
Italy
Normandy
Cannes
Marseilles
U. S
Balkans
U. S. Army
Marshall
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Stilwell
Arnold
Matin Craig
War Department
John J. Pershing
Peyton C. March
John L. Hines
Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
California
China Coast
Ber Lear
Stalin
de Gaulle
Moscow
Germany
France
Britain
Europe
Belgium
Welland
Norway
Denmark
Kremlin
Blended Colors Rag Rug From Odds and Ends
A guide to making a knitted rag rug from fabric strips about three quarters of an inch wide. Sew and knit strips with even fullness around a central oval, using dye to harmonize colors. The note mentions a book with complete directions and 32 projects, priced 15 cents plus order details.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joy Hodges
Hodges
Hoddibie
Army Doren
Admiralty
Gilmore's
Les Brown
Columbia Studios
Harry Cohn
Renita
Wreir
Lave
Don Wahn
Earl Benham
Earl
Lucius-Beebe
Benham
Earl's
Ingrid Hadlen
New Mag
Idue
Curt Riess
Sith
6Th Avenue
Frison
Joe
Dorothy Parker
Rorethy
Ed Jefferson Caffery
Brazil
Paris
European Advisory Commission
London
Leopold III
Charles
Luxembourg
Greece
George I
Southwest Pacific
Hollandia
Netherlands New Guinea
Aeds
Finland
Romania
Bulgaria
Victor Emanuel II
Umberto
Ivanoe Bonomi
Alexander G. Kirk
Allied Commission For
Icelandic Republic
Realm of
Victor Emanuel
Charles de Gaulle
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Merry
Congress
Archibald MacLeish
State Department
Russia
Arctic Sea
Mediterranean
Turkey
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Persian Gulf
Iran
Larry Fly
FCC
Lombardy Apartments
Wall Steel
Eugene L. Garey
Congressman Cox
House Committee
St. James
Charley Dawes
N Meniue
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Bfgoodrich
Wilke
Liberty
Kuta
Elgin Watch Company
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