Recall of Baron Von Schoen Signals Chilean Shift
A Buenos Aires to Washington dispatch suggests Chile may cut ties with Baron Wilhem Freiherr von Schoen, long linked to Latin American intrigue and German cartels. The potential recall would sever a major Axis influence in the region, with broader implications for Allied efforts.
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York
Chile
Berlin
Wilhelm Freiherr von Schoen
von Schoen
Baron von Schoen
Axis
Star power meets war work in New York entertainment chatter
Virginia Vale reports on Ronald Colman taxi ride and star sightings in Manhattan. Celebrities like Mary Martin, Greer Garson, Marguerite Chapman's brother and Gracie Allen are noted alongside film and radio plans amid wartime duties and stage schedules.
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Colman
New York
Random Harvest
Greer Garson
Radio City Music Hall
Gracie Allen
George
Jack Benny
Eddie Cantor
Office of War Information
Stage Door Canteen stars hobnob with Hoover on CBS program
Ilka Chase and Mary Martin persuaded Herbert Hoover to wink in a staged photo after a CBS Stage Door Canteen appearance. Walter O Keefe aims for a personal Alaska camp tour tied to his NBC Battle of the Sexes, broadcast from the West Coast. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland begin work on Girl Crazy marking their eighth team effort since Thoroughbreds Don t Cry in 1937.
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Ilka Chase
Mary Martin
Herbert Hoover
CBS
Walter O'Keefe
NBC
Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
Best Fighter Plane Major Hitchcock Returns Home
Maj. Thomas Hitchcock arrives in Inglewood California after returning from England. He served as assistant military attache for air and cites England’s consensus that the P-51 with Merlin engine will be the world’s best fighter plane in 1943.
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Thomas Hitchcock
United States
England
Inglewood
Calif
Hitchcock
Maj
Air
Last shot of the Confederacy is found in Selma haul
A long Civil War note recounts Selma Alabama as a postwar scrap metals tale. It follows Union General James Wilson’s 1865 raid, Forrest’s cavalry resistance, and the cache of 700 pound cannon sunk in the Alabama river. The piece highlights Forrest versus Wilson, their careers, and the salvage that links to modern metal drives.
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Army
J. Cowley
Hamilton
Dr. Hutchins
Stringfellow Barr
Page
University of
Lee
Confederacy
Selma
Ala
William T. Sherman
Sea
James Harrison Wilson
Alabama
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Wilson
Forrest
Sam
Pacific
Mediterranean
Robert E. Lee
Jeb’’ Stuart
Appomattox
Sherman
South Mountain
Antietam
Army of the
Columbus
Macon
Jefferson Davis
Hood
Thomas
Nashville
Tennessee River
Remembering candlewicking in blue for bath decor
Instructions describe making blue accented bath textiles with voile curtains, candlewicking on coarse white muslin, and a tailored plaid pattern formed by four inch diagonal lines. The piece advises cutting large enough for shrinkage, basting hems, stitching with a four-strand candlewick thread, washing, drying, and not ironing.
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Broadway
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Seattle
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Cecil Doyle
Joseph Foss
William Marontate
Roy Ruddell
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