From penny-patched to piloting Standard Oil fortune
A portrait of Ralph W. Gallagher rising from poverty to president of New Jersey Standard and guiding the Standard Oil patent transfer to the U.S. war effort. The piece traces his 47 years on the payroll, rise through oil and gas leadership, and current status as a major war contribution figure.
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York
Ralph W. Gallagher
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Gallagher
Standard
Standard Oil
East Ohio Gas Company
New Jersey Standard
Wings Above Water How Civil Air Patrol Aided Sub Warfare
Major General James Chaney at Mitchel Field spots two CAP planes shadowing submarines over the water. Civil Air Patrol, started before Pearl Harbor, deployed 21 bases from Mexico to Maine with volunteers flying patrols and sometimes performing improvised medical aid. Despite skepticism, a 30 day test near a ship graveyard yielded an 85 percent drop in sinkings as CAP planes scouted and radioed for help, though they carried no bombs.
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James Chaney
First Air Force
Mitchel Field
New York
Civil Air Patrol
Maj
Earle Johnson
CAP
Pearl Harbor
Office of Civilian Defense
Army Air Force
Mexico
Maine
Major Johnson
General Bradley
Army
Navy
Hap Arnold
Air Force
Tales of the Towns Editors and War Memories
In a lively recounting at a convention, editors share newsroom lore from Christmas mornings to Simon Legree abuses and wartime tales. Al Schmid recounts Guadalcanal feats and wartime misperceptions about his own actions. A Nazi spy's street crossing mishap ends a dramatic Times Square mission.
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al Schmid
Philadelphia
Guadalcanal
One Rivers
Diamond
Brooklyn
New York
Berlin
Times Square
The Big Show Sallies in Our Alley
Dick Himber recalls Colonel Romulo recounting a wartime joke that lifted spirits on Bataan. Romulo shares a story of a mamma and papa rabbit hiding from wolves, and a punch line about outnumbering them.
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Dick Himber
Romulo
MacArthur
Bataan
Rhode Island Senate approves name publishing rule for editorials
United Press reports from Providence that Rhode Island's State Senate passed a measure requiring newspapers to print the names and addresses of all editorial authors and writers of Letters to the Editor, aiming to disclose contributors.
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United Press
Providence
R. I
State Senate
Rhode Island
Colyums
Quotations On Generosity Courtesy and Censorship
A collection of aphorisms and quips from G Martin and The Alabama Times. The remarks touch on generosity ingratitude courtesy and censorship and include a sharp edge from Eugene O Neill about bans leading to broader censorship and a satirical line on a Clark Gable type young man.
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G. Martin
The
Alabama Times
Eugene O'Neill
Washington
Anon
SchopenHauer
Dartmouth Guest Of Honor In Spring Week Plans
Betty Hutton turns down a Dartmouth spring party guest honor while being asked for autographed photos. Diana Lynn stars with Hutton in The Well Groomed Bride. Raymond Paige forms a youth orchestra for NBC Salute to Youth. A water ballet by John Murray Anderson features Esther Williams, and radio actors from Mr District Attorney appear in Journey Into Fear with Stefan Schnabel Frank Readick and Everett Sloane.
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Hutton
Dartmouth
Betty
Diana Lynn
John Murray Anderson
Esther Williams
Andy Hardy
Mickey Rooney
Stefan Schnabel
Frank Readick
Everett Sloane
Hollywood Notes On Actors And Upcoming Releases
Jon Hall shifts from exotic wardrobes to a full range from polo outfits to tails in Lady in the Dark where he portrays a movie star. Arturo de Cordova, rising as a romantic lead, stars in For Whom the Bell Tolls awaiting release. Amos and Andy return this fall with guest stars as director Robert Z Leonard oversees The Man From Down Under with 80 babies on set. Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson and Donna Reed adjust to a busy nursery on a stage. Charles Bickford once bought a South Sea island, now in Japanese hands. Laraine Day suggests raffling it for a war bond. a studio electrician won it and gave to his daughter.
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Jon Hall
Dorothy Lamour
Victor Mature
Rudolph Valentino
Arturo de Cordova
Mexico
Latin America
C. B. DeMille
Robert Z. Leonard
Down Under
Board of Education
Charles Laughton
Binnie Barnes
Richard Carlson
Donna Reed
Leonard
Charles Bickford
South Sea
Laraine Day
Cary Grant
Mr. Lucky
Bickford
Studio
RKO Plans Two Reel Picture Opposing Hitler's Children
RKO will produce a two reel film titled Americas Children as a contrast to Hitlers Children aimed mainly for foreign markets. Alan Reed, Fred Allen's protege, to star in A Tale Too Sisters for Metro.
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RKO
America
Hitler
Alan Reed
Fred Allen
Metro
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Oxford
Dickens
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LMER
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Owi Davis
Manhattan
Mystic
Conn
By Robert McCormick
CWMU
Collier's Weekly
Tunisia
Rommel
Mamma
Trixie
Anton Grabowski
Grabowski
John L. Lewis
International Policy Committee
United Mine Workers
Lewis
WLB
Roosevelt
New Guinea
Japan
Lesley J. McNair
U. S. Army
Ben Lear
Second Army
Melvin Kimball
Ira Sussky
Sussky
Kimball
Burma
U. S
Minesweeper
James L. Kalman
U. S. Army Combat Engineers
North
Col. Elliot
Malta
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Elliot Roosevelt
Tales of the Town
Heywood Broun
Broun
Brown
Park Row
Simon Legree
Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Raymond Paige
NBC
Amos
Andy
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