Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt paid a visit to the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga., her first trip back since April...
Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Songs, dances and fancy patter by the expert Astaire & Rogers (TIME, April...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME. April...
...anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...