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Army Air Forces revealed a little more about LeMay's power by identifying four wings of B-29s in his command, two on Tinian, one each on Saipan and Guam. The young brigadier generals in his all-star backfield are Roger M. Ramey, 58th Wing; Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 73rd; John H. Davies, 313th; Thomas S. Power, 314th...
Mercurochrome & Ink. The Russians on the other side of the Elbe- members of Marshal Konev's 58th Guards Division-sent up colored flares, the prearranged signal to designate friendly forces. Robertson had no flares. He took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
...attendance-the smallest town meeting in years-and concluded that "everybody's working." Mason was pleased that its police department cost only $8 in 1944, but voted to give it an additional $17 for 1945. Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office...
...week with his band at Broadway's Club Nightingale. A waiter named Frank Nolan told him that with a place of his own he could make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped in later. He took a look around the Club Durant and bought...
...palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and least publicized of national tournaments: the 58th annual amateur U.S. gymnastic championships...