San Francisco conference notes and local media chatter
San Francisco sources discuss security for delegates including Molotov with about 200 guards. Mention Joe Rosenthal and AP, Kent Cooper offering Iwo Jima photo reproductions for Marines Relief, and rival San Francisco Los Angeles correspondents. Also notes Clare Luce’s Italy trip and a forecast about Mayor LaGuardia possibly running for New York governor.
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FDR
Charlie Michelson
LaGuardia
N. Y
John Metcalfe
Washington
New York Gazette
State Department
Joe Rosenthal
Joe
AP Hocus
Los Angeles
San Francisco
George Polk
L. A
George
California
Clare Luce
Italy
Edda Mussolini
Watch Out Angel closes after three week run at Curran
Mike McDermott arranged rooms for over 900 newspaper men and others then found no decent space for himself. The musical show Watch Out Angel folded at the Curran theater after a three week run though some numbers were praised and several performers are talented. The Alcazar theater was renamed the United Nations theater with a new marquee arranged through the War Production board at the request of the state department. Glenn Allvine oversees changes with Hollywood films rotated daily for delegates. Going My Way will be heard in Czech and Portuguese for Czech and Brazilian audiences.
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Mike McDermott
Statetimus
Angel
Curran Theater
Alcazar Theater
United Nations Theater
War Production Board
State Department
Glenn Allvine
Will Hays Zoo
Names, Headlines, and Tributes Stir Town Gossip
Town chatter links Jack’s eatery to New York as locals discuss the Stork clubs and alleged name piracy in California. Barbara Burke, a former Follies dolly now divorcing, prepares to wed again while Ralph Ober recalls FDR’s death and Ernie Pyle’s sacrifice, figures celebrated by Americans.
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Jack
New York
S. Billingsley
Calif
Mr. B
Barbara Burke
Dolly
Ralph Ober
Fdr
Ernie Pyle
Market Street Eats Thrive Despite Ration Limits
Small restaurants along Market Street manage to serve customers despite OPA rules and shortages. High end hotels and eight F entrepreneurs face stricter constraints while diners seek affordable meals and steady service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Market Street
Notable names in current affairs and fiction notes
Archibald MacLeish lists his Alexandria Virginia home for sale at 65000 dollars. Jimmy Byrnes reports on mobilization and reconversion drawing wide attention as a best seller. A proposal to place FDR on dimes gains traction for the March of Dimes drive.
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Archibald MacLeish
Alexandria, Va
Jimmy Byrnes
All England
Truman Ponders Patronage Reach and Political Ties
President Truman asks advisers about patronage potential and influence, wondering what a known ally can achieve. The remark underscores the administration's concern with who knows whom and the practical impact on policy and appointments.
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Truman
World Leaders Picture Roosevelts Tie to Power Fades
The piece surveys former Roosevelt allies like Winston Churchill Admiral King General Somervell Harry Hopkins Bernard Baruch and others as they adjust to a new White House. It notes Churchill with Hopkins late night talks, King clashing with Truman era policies, Somervell sidelined, Hopkins losing access and Baruch losing influence.
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Winston Churchill
Churchill
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Fdr
Ernest King
Navy
Frank Knox
White House
Knox
King
Ellis Searles and the Coal Miners' Journal Pioneer
Ellis Searles edited the Coal Miners' Journal starting 1917 or 1918 after leaving the Indianapolis News. He aimed to uplift American citizenship among miners and their families, using plain language to explain government and civic duties. The piece reflects on big versus small business and uses Metropolitan Life as a benchmark for asset scale.
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Ellis Searles
Washington
Indianapolis News
Fairbanks
Indiana
Searles
America
Coal Miners’ Journal
John Lewis
Lewis
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Postwar farming should be unregulated
A view argues farming should be left free from federal direction to maximize yields. The government’s role would be to ensure fair prices at home and abroad and to aid world food needs, suggesting Americans should boost production to meet global hunger rather than rely on subsidies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
China
Infantry Wins the War, Ground Forces Seal Victory
The piece extols infantry as the decisive factor in victory, noting pilots, artillery, tanks, and engineers aid but the infantry's foot soldiers on enemy soil end the battle.
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Germany
Aschaffenburg
Duren
Roer
Wesel
Rhine
Limburg
Eitburg
G.I
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Alfer Tn
Man About Town
New York City
Chicago
New Orleans
Russia
Mr. Molotov
John Edgar Hoover
FBI
Walter Winchell
Okinawa
Japan
Commodore Perry
Meiji
Grand Meiji Shrine
Imperial Palace of Japan
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Willis H. Hale
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean Area
H. E. Erwin
Bessemer
Ala
Josiah E. Greene
Washington, Conn
MacMillan
Albert
Happy” Chandler
U. S
Kentucky
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Franklin Roosevelt
B. B. Somervell
Army
Truman Committee
Somervell
Marshall
Harry
Jimmie
Bernard Baruch
General Somervell
Baruch
WPB
Bernie
Byrnes
Psa
Wright A Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
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