Navy Public Relations Split Sparks Merger Talk
In Washington the Navy debates duplicating public relations with a new coordinator. Vice Admiral Carpender leads five seniors and a large staff, while Rear Admiral Miller had run the prior efficient system. The change signals interservice friction amid postwar reorganizations.
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NAVY
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal
Army
Forrestal
Min” Miller
Miller
Arthur
Carpender
Baseball Unions Rise As Players Push For Rights
The piece outlines a wave of baseball labor activity with mentions of NLRB oversight and notable figures like Bob Wagner and J. Caesar Petrillo. It notes potential shifts toward five inning games and rules changes including six weeks pitcher's notice, plus government takeovers and picketing in several cities.
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Umps
NLRB
Bob Wagner
Chandler
The
Battery
J. Caesar Petrillo
John L. Lewis
New York
Derby Crowd Abroad Sees Wide Range of Big Games
At Louisville crowds from 48 states discuss the Louisville Conn bout, pennant races, and the Derby. They favor Conn’s odds veering toward 3 to 1, back Boston Red Sox and Dodgers in baseball, and name coaches like Wallie Butts and Paul Bryant evaluating top two dozen backs for next season.
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Louisville
Louis Conn
Conn
Far West
Louis
Boston Red Sox
Tom Yawkey
Yawkey
Boston
Red Sox
Cubs
Cardinals
Dodgers
Brooklyn
Dodger
Wallie Butts
Georgia
Paul Bryant
Kentucky
Charley Trippi
Maryland
Trippi
Blanchard
Davis
West Point
Bud Young
Illinois
Bob Fenimore
Oklahoma A
Harry Gilmer
Alabama
Wedemeyer
St. Mary’s
Out Town and Midtown Vignette Echoes in Rainy City Gossip
In a collage of city chatter and showbiz blurbs the column names names such as Rogers Stearns Oz Nelson and Jerry Lester while toasts to old stars like Irving Berlin and Count Basie mingle with hotel room scarcities and Biloxi convention digs. It notes Foxes of Harrow selling for 150000 and a Rockefeller Center versus Radio City feud over city branding. The piece closes with a church federation plan to raise funds with the Army over tens of thousands of Bibles burned in camps.
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Irving Berlin
Paramount
Count Basie
Louis
Conn
Kayos
John Erskines
Helen Worden
Greece
Erskine
20Th Century-Fox
Foxes
Rockefellers
Rockefeller Center
Radio City
The
Federation of Churches
Batting Race Spotlight Shifts In Early Season Sluggers
Ted Williams leads the chase with a .350 clip or better while Joe DiMaggio hovers under .270. Dick Wakefield struggles for Detroit with sub .240, Dom DiMaggio hits over .400, and Charley Keller rides high.
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Ted Williams
Joe DiMaggio
Dick Wakefield
Red Sox
Williams
DiMaggio
Wakefield
Tigers
Dom DiMaggio
Charley Keller
Inside Track for NBC Spot Sparks Frigidaire Tie
General Motors Frigidaire unit seeks a half hour NBC slot to return to air. LaGuardia refuses $15,000 UNRRA chief salary. London says Sean O Casey play Red Roses for Me tops his prior works. Car dealers expect 180000 new models soon. Round table editors joke about Congress secrecy and media power. Horace Greeley quip on journalism ends.
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General Motors
Frigidaire
Bing
NBC
LaGuardia
UNRRA
London
Sean O’casey
Street Scene and Port Mention in Wesport Chronicle
A fragmented urban vignette notes a local peddler in the Saks foyer on 50th Street and hints at a potential American Riviera developing in Wesport Connecticut home to cultural leaders. A terse hospital note from Jed Kiley at St Francis Hospital Miami Beach recalls marriage and divorce milestones within a single year amid a collision aftermath.
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50Th Street
Saks
Riviera
Wesport
Conn
Longshore Club
Machomazuma
Jed Kiley
St. Francis Hospital
Miami Beach
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Denmark
Belgium
James G. Fulton
Pennsylvania
White House
Truman
RFC
RED Army
James Byrnes
Balkans
Austria
Hungary
United States
Vyacheslav Molotov
Byrnes
U. S
Vienna
State Department
Democratic National Committee
Bob Hannegan
Hannegan
Secretary of the Interior
Cap Krug
Jl Philips
Baseball Unions
Chicago
Yankees
Philadelphia
Connie Mack
N. Y
National Labor Relations Board
ST. Louis
Bobby Sockers
James Montgomery Flagg
Bobby-socker
Honey Chile
Okinawa
Church Street
Flatbush Avenue
Oscar Purkey
Riverside Drive
Shubert Alley
James Lewis Triplet
Vallejo
Calif
Air Services
Sam
W. Averell
Harriman
Russia
U. N
Journal Office
Providence Bulletin
Spud Chandler
Spud
Ohio
Medina County
Norman Morton
Farm Bureau
Burt E. Beach
Dorothy Moorhouse
Dorothy Moorhouse, Right, the Originator of the Campaign, Checks With Mrs. Beach
Tojo
Pass
Tokyo
G.I
Audie Murphy
Capitol
Pearl Harbor
Eugenia
Clair Smith
Britain
Patricia Purser
Westminster
Leslie Biffle
Senate
Franco
Jose Girai
New York City
United Nations
Spain
Salvation Army
Albert Orsborn
England
Hollywood
Little Terry Taylor
Billy Conn
Rogers Stearns
Oz Nelson
H’ Wood
Jerry Lester
Mussolini
Biloxi
Mississippi
Singapore
Serge Rubenstein
Ciro’s
Gilmore’s
Mermaid Room
Mistress
David Terry
Terry
Louse
Congress
OPA
Horace Greeley
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