Remembering Bill White A War Reporter in Berlin and Helsinki
In 1939 40 Bill White emerges as a fearless foreign correspondent and broadcaster in Europe. From Berlin he relays the Finnish conflict and Nazi rhetoric while filing broadcasts that move Robert Sherwood to write There Shall Be No Night. His journeys to Helsinki and England spotlight a restless resilient journalist who finds humor amid danger and a nation learning to endure a new global war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill White
Berlin
Harvard
Can
Kansas
Eugene Meyer
Adlon
Germany
Teleii
Stockholm
Helsinki
Finland
Berin
Kiel
Mannerheim
Robert Sherwood
England
St. Paul's
White
Bill
Margaret
Emporia Sege
They Were Expendable and The Dollar Gold Piece Book Notes
Book reviews praise Bill White for Theirs Were Expendable a vivid World War II chronicle and credit his reporting for its impact. Virginia Swain Farrar’s The Dollar Gold Piece is lauded for its vivid late nineteenth century Kansas City real estate tale with strong characters and a looming conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Morley
William Allen White
Morley
Young Bill
Virginia Swain Farrar
Rinehart
Swain
Kansas City
Kan
Coiffures in a War Year Emphasize Practical Styles
Frances Eby surveys wartime hair trends focusing on practical easy upkeep for women in industry and on volunteer service. Short feather edge cuts, updos, soft forehead curls, and clever combs or bows create an illusion of shortness while accommodating military caps and wartime hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Dache
Bet y Munden Lieut Wilshere to Marry
Betty Munden and Lieut Vernon S Wilshere announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Petty Jean to Lieut Vernon S Wilshere son of Mr and Mrs Carl Wilshere of Schenectady New York The groom to be is stationed at the pre flight school City and the bride is a Roosevelt high school and Mercy Hospital School of Nursing graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph E. Munden
Maple Drives
Petty Jean
Vernon S. Wilshere
Carl Wilshere
Schenectady
N. Y
Roosevelt High School
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Iowa City
Lieut
Wilshere
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
The
Navy
City
Paul O. Ferguson
F Avenue
Mildred
Leo J. Carney, Jr
Jahe
Leo J
Second Avenue
St. Patrick's Church
D. J. Lenihan
Marion Ferguson
Vincent Carney
Miss Kobe Installed as Rainbow Worthy Advisor
Miss Kobe daughter of Mr and Mrs A W Loftus was installed Rainbow Worthy Advisor in a ceremony. Miss Kobe received her crown from Winston Williams as Janet Bohren carried it on a white satin cushion. Officers and choir were installed and a dance followed with extensive floral decorations and gifts from the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Kobe
A. W. Loftus
Dunreath Drive
Frank Jesina
Joan Jeffery
Marilyn Thompson
Pauline Davis
Topsy Carberry
Norma Jean
eligi ag _ Order of canes cod
Miss Kobe
Winston Williams
Janet Bohren
Joanne van Cleve
Marion Toms
Jean Ann Nelson
Beverly Smith
Barbara Livingston
Alyce Mary Chadima
Mary Leigh Larson
Janet Lehman
Darlene Owen
Norma Lou Haegg
Marilyn Post
Colleen Bedell
George Trieb
Charlene Zvacek
Mary Louise Jesina
Eroy Cullman
Hope
Mary Hubbard
Virginia Reeder
Patricia Maloney
Lillian Stodola
Betsy Jean Anderson
Jaline Gliaiser
Kathleen Robison
Jeanne Wallace
Fidelity
Jane Grayston
Joyce Kucera
Service
Marilynne Milner
Confidential Observer
Margaret Hunter
Outer Observer
Mary Alice Mellen
Bethy Bondel
Theodora Davis
Jean Denton
Sally Henry
Florence Churchill
Netah Shelton
Carolyn Solbrig
Mary Ellen Stamy
Allene West
Mary Ella Wolverton
Ruth Ann Stucker
Marjorie Moen
Paola George
Isabella Group Hosts Card Party for Daughters of Isabella
The Daughters of Isabella bookshelf committee and entire organization invite members and guests to a card party Monday at 7:45 p.m. at Hayes Box Cedar Rapids to raise funds and support Catholic books in the public library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of Isabella
Hayes
Second Avenue Bridge
M. Duffy
A. C. Goodyear
Henry Teahen
Irene Marousek
Isabella
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
A Rapids
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Elizabeth Chevalier
Bernadette
Franz Werfel
Cup
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Moe Phage Oie
Leo To
Owe — le
Cyril Harris
van Loon
Hendrick W. van Loon
Alexander P. de Seversky
Hartzell Spence
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
M. Sayers
A. Kahn
W. L. White
William L. Shirer
London
William Shirer
Harcourt, Brace
Bulkeley
Kelly
Akers
Cox
Philippines
Lieut. Bulkeley
MacArthur
Bulkeley and Company
Manila
Hawaii
U.S.A
Ws. SS
U. S
Corregidor
Rock
E.C.H
Lucre
Cathie Browne
Leo
Rolf Bennett
Fye
Bennett
Hull
Cathie
Rolf
Miss Swain
Eliza _ North Hoyt
Mrs. Baldwin
William F. White
Mrs
Alan Baldwin
Wildwood Drive
Carl W. Nelsons
Des Moines
R. J. Thiel
Carl W. Nelson
Sixteenth Street
Ashley
D.A.R
Mayflower
Marion
Camp Fire Sponsors Association
First Presbyterian Church
E. D. Holvenstot
Mmes
E. H. Skinner
W. Kothur Norman
Guardian
Vernon C. Huffman
Ges Company
J. W. Pichner
Belle Plaine Club
R. L. Whelan
Bever Avenue
000 League OF Women Voters
F. J. Lightser
Frances Eby
Mary Lou Jacobs
Betty Becker
Betty Munden
Hanford
000 Cedar
C.E.S
Matrons Association of Cedar
O.E.S
Mines
A Chase
R. L. van Meter
Emil Horak
L. J. Zika
S. Christman
P. W
Business and Professional Women's Club
Gertrude Steiner
Fourth Avenue SE
Miss Ferguson
Leo Carney
Lasewell Photo
Betty Jean Munden
Iowa
Hartzell
Sanford
Dempsey's
Dempsey
Oscar Workman
DIAL
Isabella Group
Charles E. Martin
Card Club
Big Pines Farms
J. F. Messinger
Granger
George Smith
Newman
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