Blind Texan's Novel Sparks New Publishing Firm
John H Griffin, a blind Texas farmer, wrote The Devil Rides Outside while studying medieval Gregorian chants. The work, based on monastery life and inner conflict, launches Smiths Inc as a new publishing house with rights quickly attracting bidders and interest from studios and foreign markets.
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Robert H. Johnson
Mansfield, Texas
John H. Griffin
Griffin
Mansfield
Texas
Smiths, Inc
Wide World Photo
American Tourists Help Swell Ancestry Hunt Boom
American travelers aid a surge in ancestor hunting as Britons and Americans use London's genealogical records to verify lineages. Burke's Peerage researchers debunk long held claims while one Queen Elizabeth I lineage is extended. many modern families discover modest or surprising origins across centuries.
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London
Lee
Britain
Hooey
L. G. Pine
Burke's Peerage
Burke
Pine
Harriet Thompson
William the Conqueror
Wipperary
Ireland
Hereward the Wake
Northernmost U S Air Bases Revealed
Washington report notes the Air Force completed 22 new wing hangars for B 52s at Limestone Maine Rapid City South Dakota and Spokane Washington. The move highlights the northern locations likely to host the bombers with a 16000 mile range for potential retaliatory global strikes.
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Washington
Air Force
Limestone
Maine
Rapid City
S, I
Spokane
Wash
Doctor Sails 10 000 Miles In Small Boat
Doctor Thomas R. Davis a part Polynesian physician sailed 10000 miles in a 48 foot ketch to begin Harvard public health classes. He traveled with his wife Lydia their two children and two New Zealanders from Wellington to Boston in 155 days landing Nov 2. He plans to finish graduate school and study tropical medicine.
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Marblehead
Mass
Harvard University
School of Public Health
Harvard
Thomas R. Davis
Lydia
Wellington
N. Z
Boston
Dr. Davis
Tropics
Davis
Cook Islands
Te Pacific
New Zeaand
Little Sea Coast
John
Timmy
New England
Air Force Publishes Guide for Selling to It
The Air Force releases a handbook titled A Guide for Selling to the United States Air Force. Available from the Air Material Command at Wright Patterson Base near Dayton, Ohio.
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Dayton
Ohio
Air Force
United States Air Force
Air Material Command
Wright Patterson Base
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Publishing House Foundation
Smiths
Worth Brothers
Gordon and
Hulbert
Texas Smyth
France
Germany
United States
Army Air Forces
South Pacific
Philippines
Usision
Michael Newmarch
Elizabeth I
Egbert
England
KEY Keft Sale
Society of Genealogists
Memphis
Tenn
W. E B. Church
Pere
Iowa
B.T.U
Lonergan Automatic OK
Lonergan
B.T.A
Happel & Sons, Inc
U.S
Doctor
Tom Henshaw
Pacific
Jas
Jayson Super-Whitehall
Swank
Jayson Super-Whiteshall
America
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