Crosby and Mercer music shop visit hit radio and stage
Bing Crosby visits Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop while TV radio lineups feature Peter Lorre and Richard Conte in Suspense murder mystery Of Maestro and Men. Washington postwar transit debate draws E D Merrill and others. Nominations and roll call address by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
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Bing Crosby
Johnny Mercer
WRC
Peter Lorre
Richard Conte
Maestro
Men
WTOP
Washington
E. D. Merrill
Capital Transit
H. C. Whitehurst
C. B. Duncan
Hecht Co
Othics
Soldiers burying the dead on D-Day Normandy beaches
Pvt James F White of Louisville Kentucky recalls leading Graves Registration Unit men who buried 457 American dead in three days after landing on Normandy. Lt Robert E Berry supervised the crossfire prone graves as engineers cleared mines and dog tags identified each casualty.
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Normandy
James F. White
Louisville
Robert E. Berry
Market St
Wilmington
Del
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
France
White
Chester Schram
Gladstone
Mich
Alfonso Ortega
Los Angeles
Calif
Cecil C. Deel
Glendening
W. Va
Rainfall figures for 31 years at Winchester area
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hours ending 8 a.m. at 0.65 inches, July to date 1.97 inches, year to date 21.56 inches. Average annual rainfall over 31 years is 35.95 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1943 list values from January at 2.51 inches to August 3.74 inches. December 2.43 inches. Courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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WMAL
K. C
Godwin
Agr
Sky
Kseman
Hornet
News
Abner
Town
Leif Eid
Lowell Thomas
Music Shop News of World
Bing
Crosby Music Hall
Edward Everett Horton
Evans
Harkness
D. C
New World
Mr Keen
Mr. Keen
Bill Henry
Major Bowes
Corliss Archer
Winchester Poultry Company Co
F. Nicholas
Winchester
Nefrin
Baker's Drug Store
Opp County
Dial
Sherwin-Williams
America
Miller’s Hardware
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Churchills
Winston Churchill
England
Food Center
Loudoun St
Chapman Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
Grove Furniture Co
Loudoun
Pine Motor Co
Yuri
Newpork 2
M. J
F. A. Davis
Winchester Research Laboratory
Leesburg
Harpers Ferry
Potomac By-Products Co
Hitler
Junior
AM Aki
Eikd
Ala
Blondie
RY Chic Young
Darling
Thimble Theatre
StArRpz Popeye
By Sims & Zabory
Antorta
Ant
Coe Oe
Popeye
Eeak
Good Will
By Robert Sturn
Secret Agent X-9
Stiletto
Big Sister
Byles Forgrave
Upchin
Dan
Oracet
Etta Kett
Monk
BY Paul Robinson
NAVY
Etta
Muggs and
Skeeter
Sonny
Pient Othe
Wally Bishop
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