AAF Seeks Russia’s Postwar Sports Handshake
Avery Brundage says the AAF extended a rare invitation to Russia as the world eyes a postwar Olympic revival in 1948. He notes Moscow severed relations since 1912 and has built a vast sports program but has not shown it to the world.
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Chicago
Russia
International Amateur Athletic Federation
Avery Brundage
United States Olympic Committee
International Olympic Group
La.a.f
La.a.f. Council
Stockholm
Brundage
Irv Hoffman
Hollywood
Alan Williams
Williams
Green Mansions
Peter Marsh
Beaver disrupts telephone service near Thermopolis
A beaver felled a tree that knocked down lines, halting telephone service for several hours north of Thermopolis. Linemen identified the cause as the beaver’s activity and the downed wires.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
Notes on a New Yorker sane handling of men and politics
Walter Winchell surveys Washington contrasts between soldiers diplomats and politicians highlighting Gen George Marshall Adolph Berle Jr and Gen Claire Chennault. He mocks diplomacy and postwar pretensions while noting public figures and a war fatigue mood across America.
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Pentagon
Washington
W.P.A
George Marshall
U. S. Army
Adolph A. Berle, Jr
Brazil
Zanzibar
Jimmy Walker
Claire Chennault
Louisiana
Quotable Odds and Ends From a War Freethinker
A collage of quips about foreign policy, hobbyists, and war leaders. Harding jokes cite two foreign policy pillars the Secretary of State and Butler. Anecdotes cover Paul Revere and Jefferson, Haig’s leatherwork, Pershing the plumber, a GI with twelve gats, a Kentucky colonel in Paris, and a Hollywood bookshop. Hitler’s Sudeten speech echoes psychiatrists, while postwar politics mock Wilson Lloyd Clemenceau Churchill and FDR.
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Harding
U. S
Sec
Nicholas Murray Butler
Paul Revere
Thomas Jefferson
Winstonhill
Great Britain
Field Marshal
Haig
Gen. Pershing
Herbert Bayard Swope
Wilson
Lloyd
Clemenceau
Churchill
Fdr
D. Pearson
Sen. Wheeler
Navy
Roosevelt
Wheeler
PCA Develops Quick New Ticket Machine
PCA announces a streamlined airline ticket and autographic register that cuts purchasing time to as little as 10 seconds, speeding line flow at all stations. The system, to start at the Greensboro High Point airport next month, aims to support future four engine operations and interline use.
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Pennsylvania Central Airlines
PCA
Greensboro-High Point
Cngine Ticket
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