Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven nights a week the dusky, barnlike basement of Manhattan's 44th Street Theater is crammed and crawling with pleasure-seekers. No liquor is served, but there is dancing to hot name bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless...
Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
Oldsmobiles (called B-44s to mark the company's 44th anniversary) are lower & longer, with fadeaway front fenders. Long-needed innovation is twin front bumpers. One is in the usual place, the other a foot higher, sprouting from either fender to protect the flashy grille. Frames are heavier, have an added cross-member. Power has been increased through a higher compression ratio, redesigned combustion chambers...
Last week the Army was busy making its lists of soldiers to be discharged as soon as possible after their twelve months' service is up. At Fort Dix, where the 44th Division celebrated its first anniversary in Federal service this week, it was announced that 1,800 one-year enlisted men would be discharged by Sept. 25. Other outfits heard similar news. Throughout the U.S., emergency soldiers suddenly lost their skepticism about the announcement that, barring a shooting war, the Army would let 200,000 one-year men go home by Christmas...
This may sound as though we're blowing our own horn but we would just like to point out to the 44th that you have to grin & bear...