Washington D C Story Behind Montgomery Bradley Command Shift
Background of Montgomery Bradley reassignment described with context on Bradley losing command of two American armies. Eisenhower Churchill friction, secrecy in the Pentagon, and implications for U S war leadership noted with reference to Caen Cherbourg and Normandy battles.
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Omar N. Bradley
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Churchill
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Cherbourg
Paris
Stars and Stripes
London
British Broadcasting Company
Holland
Belgium
Monty
el Alamein
Cairo
Sicily
Arnhem
Pentagon
Hall of Fame Nomination Dilemma Faces Baseball Stars
The 1945 Hall of Fame race tightens as twenty to thirty greats like Jimmy Collins Roger Bresnahan Mel Ott Bob Feller and Lefty Grove await selection. The author notes crowding risks and recalls pivotal figures such as Frank Chance Evers Maranville and Pepper Martin while praising Alabama quarterback Harry Gilmer as a standout college passer.
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Jimmy Collins
Roger Bresnahan
Mel Ott
Bill Klei
Clark Griffith
Frank Chance
Johnny Evers
Ed Walsh
Fred Clarke
Miller Huggins
Lefty Grove
Carl Hubbell
Rube Wad
Walter Maranville
Boston Braves
Athletics
Evers
Troy
N. Y
Pepper Martin
Maranville
Martin
Harry Gilmer
Alabama
Sammy Baugh
Gilmer
Hollywood gossip and star turns from wartime films
The piece recounts fee stories for I’ll Be Seeing You, notes on rehabilitation pictures, and mentions Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Lana Turner, Margaret O’Brien, Lana’s The Pirate, Dan Duryea’s career, William Powell in Ziegfeld Follies, and Hedy Lamarr’s jade necklace mishap. It also highlights Audrey Young’s screen debut and Paramount’s George White’s Scandals of 1945 casting.
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Faye Emerson Roosevelt
Selznick International
Schary
Roosevelt
Warner Studio
Joseph Cotten
Ginger Rogers
Shirley Temple
RKO
Dorothy McGuire
Robert Young
Warner Bros
Janie
Dan Duryea
Franchot Tone
Cornell
Hedy Lamarr
Audrey Young
Paramount
George White
Odds and Ends from Stage and Screens
Ginny Simms asked for a fur coat at rehearsal while filming Johnny Presents. Bob Hope’s sponsor announced a ten year contract believed to be the largest radio talent deal yet. Rudy Vallee returns to the screen in People Are Funny. Eddie Bracken gains a prime radio time slot following Charlie McCarthy, with Jane 14 as the lead in timing.
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Ginny Simms
Johnny
Bob Hope
Bob
Rudy Vallee
Eddie Bracken
Aoe
Jane
Charlie McCarthy
Swedes Introduced Log Cabin to Delaware Settlement
The log cabin design was not native to America and appeared with early colonists such as those at Jamestown and Plymouth. Swedes introduced this construction style, founding their first settlement in 1638 on land now part of Wilmington, Delaware.
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Plymouth
Wilmington
Del
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