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Next, Turner invaded the Russells, northwest of Guadalcanal. That operation went more smoothly. The Japs had evacuated. On June 30th, with new equipment, new types of landing craft, he put the 43rd Division ashore on Rendova without the loss of a single life (although many lives were lost later and the final capture of Munda took weeks instead of days, as expected...
President Roosevelt last week awarded World War II's 43rd Congressional Medal of Honor. The citation: "for conspicuous leadership" and "personal valor and intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life." The recipient: Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, Air Forces. But General Walker was not at the White House to receive the medal. He had been missing in action in the Southwest Pacific since January...
Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
...confusion, Hellzapoppin had to play second fiddle to what happened 70 miles farther up the Hudson last week. There, off Poughkeepsie-under murky skies and over wind-whipped whitecaps-America's top-notch college crews (except Harvard and Yale) met in the 43rd annual Intercollegiate Regatta...
...West 43rd Street, Manhattan...