Retired Fleet Admiral Leahy Reflects On Wartime Leadership
In Bethesda Naval Hospital at 83 Admiral William D. Leahy recalls Roosevelt as a decisive wartime president and reflects on his own long career from 1897 naval service to Chief of Staff roles. He discusses Stalin Churchill De Gaulle and the impact of the atomic age on his view of war.
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Dave Zinman
Washington
Bethesda ‘Naval Hospital
America
Fleet Adm
William D.leahy
William H. Leahy
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Truman
Yalta
Ptsdam
Cairo
Tehéran
Stalin
Churchill
de Gaulle
Petain
Molotov
Chiang
Kai-shek
Darlan
Marshall
MacArthur
Leahy
Admiral
Britain
U.S
Germany
Russia
Red
John Bull
Hong Kong
China
France
Navy
West Point
Academy
Constellation
Santiago Harbor
Panama
San Francisco
Louise Harrington
Puerto Rico
Marshal Petain
Joint Chiefs of Staff
George C. Marshall
William King
H. H
Hap) Arnold
White House
Dragon Lady Radio Broadcasts For 7th Fleet Sailors
A Chinese broadcaster nicknamed Dragon Lady or Peiping Polly beams sex appeal, music, and five minute Communist news segments to U S Navy sailors aboard a carrier in the 7th Fleet. Veterans say the broadcasts entertain more than they inform and compare favorably to Tokyo Rose in mood and effect.
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William D. Miller
Midway
UPI
U.S
Red China
Tokyo Rose
Peiping
Airways
7Th
Far East
7Th Fleet
Tokyo
Gaines County Fair closes with livestock champions named
At the Gaines County Fair in Seminole Billy Shipman won the champion fine wool lamb and Betty Ansil the champion mutton-type sheep. James Coats won first among farm products booths. Calvin Holcomb noted no other champions in remaining classes. Dairy cattle judging had only one class. About 1,000 attended an old settlers reunion despite damp weather.
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Billy Shipman
Gaines County
Betty Ansil
James Coats
Higginbotham
Calvin Holcomb
Old Settlers
Scale Fraud Over Pickle Weights Exposed
State Agriculture De partment says they were cred ited for 105 pounds of pickles per 100 pounds delivered but investigators found rust removed from scale weights causing metal loss, exposing an innocent fraud at the pickle factory.
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State Agriculture Department
Italians Unveil Guardian Halo to Wake Sleepy Drivers
In Rome engineers Albore Gramellini and Vito Piccini patent a steering wheel ring that detects driver sleepiness. When a hand relaxes pressure, the device triggers a horn and hand brakes to alert and halt the vehicle.
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Rome
UPI
Italy
Albore Gramellini
Vito Piccini
Gramellini
Piccini
Maize Days End At Friona Amid Wet Weather
Friona's Maize Days closed after two thousand people attended the second annual event despite rain. Winners were named in car Road-E-O, beard contest, and children’s events. 1958 car awarded to Mildred Adams.
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Friona
Merley Sylvester
May Magness
Tommy Jones
Tom Parsons
Ray Strickland
Mike Fallwell
Dennis Fallwell
Jerry Stephens
Bobby Sims
Bill Weatherly
Winners Named In Art Division Of Annual Fair
Cash prizes for best paintings in the Panhandle South Plains Fair Art Division awarded to Lubbock artists after Saturday judging. Juanita Tittle won first prize of 100 dollars, Dee Jackson second with 50, Conny Martin third with 25. Exhibits open Monday as other winners in adult crafts and youth sections are listed.
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Panhandle
Lubbock
Juanita Tittle
19Th St
Dee Jackson
Slaton
Conny Martin
29Th St
Loyce Easley
Hobbs
N. M
Hazel Diseman
Sudan
Rod Parkinson
Connie Upshaw
Lottie Woolard
Elva Powell
Jerry C. Porter
Bill Lockhart
Tech
Mona Pierce
Alaska Publisher to Address Dallas Oilmen at AAAIDC Meet
Robert Bruce Atwood a leader for Alaska statehood will speak at the 18th annual meeting of the American Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors from October 1 to 3. Dr J H Wright a leading atomic scientist also will speak. Readers from Anchorage La Mesa Lubbock Sudan and other cities are listed among winners in youth crafts and children's paintings and crafts.
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Dallas
API
Robert Bruce Atwood
Alaska
The
American Assn
Oilwell Drilling Contractors
J. H. Wright
Banquet Speaker Set By Drilling Contractors Group
Wright, supervisor of the Advanced Systems Group at Westinghouse Atomic Power Dept in Pittsburgh, will introduce the keynote at the association’s three day banquet. Atwood, Alaska Statehood Committee chair and Anchorage Daily Times publisher, is slated as principal speaker. Also notes a lunar crater estimated at 30,000 feet deep, about five times the Grand Canyon.
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Wright
Advanced Systems Group
Atomic Power Department of
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Pittsburgh
Atwood
Alaska Statehood Committee
Anchorage Daily Times
Association
Moon
Grand Canyon
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Erskine St
Panhandle South Plains Fair
Bob Bishop
Peiping Polly
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Gaines Fair
Holland
Rene
Europe
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Lansing, Mich
Eaton County
Stinson Cleaners
J. L. Hardin
Broadway
Buy Retail
Grace Furniture Company
34Th
Flint
CRC Ag
Luggage Shop
LCC
Lubbock Christian College
Billy White
Johannesburg
South Africa
Christiana Andrejeski
Ecaillon
Barbara Achtelik
Berlin
Toyoko Suzuki
Japan
Moses Mo Hung
Jimmy Snead
Joe Aleman
Mike McKee
43Rd St
Nancy Earnest
30Th St
David Ricker
Lamesa
Carolyn Russell
Carol Craver
David Carothers
Globe Ave
Kathleen McGovern
22Nd St
Lee Savell
Gay Irwin
38Th St
Nancy Brown
Paul Dobbs
Barbara Upshaw
Joyce Williams
Neil Boldridge
Gary McGee
Ronnie Brown
Kay Copenhaver
Bill Slaton
Johnny Ellis
Gwynne Underwood
Kyle Barrett
MFA
W. Oth
Dept
Kansas City
W. Woolworth
Corner
Quaker Ave
Brownfield Hiway
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