Pearl Harbor memory from a fishing trip decades past
The narrator recalls eight years after Pearl Harbor how a simple winter fishing outing with Cleveland Sessums and an unnamed boatman led to a shared shock at the attack. In a quiet camp near New Orleans, a radio announced Pearl Harbor and the fate of the battleship Arizona, triggering memory and a broader reflection on December 7.
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Washington
Jana
New Orleans
You
Sam
Cleveland
Arizona
Pearl Harbor
Jack
Perch
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Anni
Local and National Contest Winners Announcement
The deadline for both local and national contests was November 30. Winners of the national contest will be announced from Crosley main offices in Cincinnati around December 20. Many Grafton residents are also entered in the national contest.
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Nuvered
Vera
Crosley
Cincinnati
Chinese Reds Begin Education Reforms in San Francisco
The Pek ing Radio broadcast reported by AP said curricula for colleges and arts and sciences were revised, signaling the start of reforms in the old university educational system.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
Peking Radio
Kiwanis to Celebrate WVU Day in Morgantown
The broadcast notes a WVU observation week with focus on dialectical materialism and history, with Russian language as possible foreign study. University President Irvin Stewart said arrangements are underway by J Burns Huyett of Charles Town Kiwanis district.
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China
University
Irvin Stewart
J. Burns Huyett
Charles Town
Kiwanis
Wytch
Morgantown
West Virginia University
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