First Jet Ace Feels Like Knight In Armor
The first jet ace in aviation history, Captain Jabara, reflects on his milestone after a fierce jet battle over Korea. He describes the flight as brutal and exhausting, compares it to four football quarters, and credits his 14th Fighter Interceptor Squadron with the achievement. He enlisted in 1942, is 27, married with two children, and hopes his son may follow in his footsteps.
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Tokyo
Copes Ates
Wichita
Jabara
Ang Disadvanage
United Press
Jebere
Air Force
Jin
Glance at Oddities in 1950s Life and Media
A collage of quirky notes on camera stores in Glendale offering no deposit rentals and instant mug shots, a decorative flower pot antenna, debutante sketches, a prize photo contest, and stray musings on television, advertising and everyday curiosities from mid-century America.
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Glendale
Calif
New York World-Telegram
Quick
James
Myron
Jim
Vity
Preliminary Certificate of Dissolution for Carolina Adhesives
The Secretary of State of North Carolina certifies that Carolina Adhesives and Machinery Equipment Corporation has complied with dissolution laws. The company, based in High Point Guilford, with Fred E. Wilson as agent, filed a unanimous written consent to dissolution on May 3 1951 and its records are on file.
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North Carolina
Department of State
Carolina Adhesives and Machinery Equipment Corporation
High Point
Guilford
State of North Carolina
Fred E. Wilson
Thad Eure
Baptists To Start Rural Development Program
The North Carolina Baptist Convention rural church advisory committee votes to launch full scale development with Dr. Henry Walden as director. Walden teaches rural church administration at Wake Forest College and joins a plan to strengthen rural churches affecting 80 percent of NC Baptist churches and 58 percent of the state's Baptist population.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Baptist Convention
Henry Walden
Walden
Wake Forest College
Harry Caldwell
Greensboro
Grady Burgess
Greenville
John Knight
Durrop
Isaac Terrell
Mountoe
Caldwell
North Carolina
First Flyer Louis Bleriot a British aviation hero
Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly across the English Channel in 1909, making him an international hero. A quote from Dr Dwight M Palmer of Ohio State University comments on gambling as people trying to get something for nothing.
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Great Britain
Louis Bleriot
Dwight M. Palmer
Psychiatry Dept
Ohio State
Notre Dame Aims Beyond Football In Nation’s Spotlight
Notre Dame emphasizes academics and faith alongside football. The campus grew from ten acres to 1700, with 5000 students, no fraternities, strict discipline, strong science and wartime service, and a motto that knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.
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Aeay
Notre Dame
Frwlenante
Rene
Slowe Dame
University
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Dean Acheson
Acheson
Sccre
John L. Lewis
John L
Offera
the Post Company
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Ralphiner
Pittsburgh
United States
Pirates
Ventura
Miss
England
Frederick
Denmark
George
Buckingham London
Harllee's
Dorothy Gray
Tecio
South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
Notre Me
Father Sorin
Congregation of the Holy Cross
West Point
Annapolis
Sun Valley
Idaho
Elie P. Aghnides
New York
Money Savers
Excello
Arilee
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