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...dawn of last New Year's Day he was with the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division in Western Europe, when the regiment's advance was stopped by machine-gun fire. MacGillivary crept through deep snow to within three feet of an enemy position, shot the two Germans who manned it. The path was clear. Several hours later, six more German machine-gunnists blocked the 71st's advance. Again Sergeant MacGillivary went out alone. He got two German crews with grenades, a third with a submachine gun, before he was knocked out of action...
...American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed for Europe with all passenger space filled...
Sergeant Harry Truman of the 44th Division, in Washington on his way to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., had a day off last week. He dropped in at his uncle's house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The family were all away, but White House Secretary Matthew Connelly, who had had word from the President that the sergeant might arrive, bowed him in, put him up in the northeast bedroom...
Marlene Dietrich, back after eleven months of USOing in Europe, greeted returning soldiers of the 44th Division by standing at the end of a Manhattan pier and waving a leg at them. She drew a deafening roar and a blizzard of coins. Then she had herself boosted to a porthole and really got down to cases (see cut). In Europe, she recalled, her most effective line was just, " 'Hello, boys'-I would just walk out on the stage, say that, and the house would come down. I don't know...
Millions of people will listen in this Saturday to the 44th playing of the most famed game in football, Army v. Navy.* It will be short-waved to U.S. military posts throughout the world. Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are interested) a play-by-play description in Spanish. But no listener will be more excited than a Polish immigrant who will be getting ready for the night shift at a Steubenville, Ohio open-hearth steel furnace. His son is captain of the Army team...