Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinemactor Alan Hale closed his Encino ranch for lack of help, moved to Hollywood. Cinemactor Robert Armstrong got tired of rattling around helplessly in his twelve-room house, moved into a six-room home on the lot next door...
There's no doubt about it, Harry James has put the trumpet back 30 years. Not for nothing did Louis Armstrong show musicians what could be done with a trumpet. Instead of a blaring, brassy, emotionless instrument, Louis made it a warm, passionate voice. James can still play a hot horn; he turns out an occasional good chorus. But he has added fiddles, written his own lush and senseless orchestrations, and become the number one band of the nation. Well, buy Harry's new record of "I Cried For You" and dance to it, but you won't enjoy listening...
Command by Tradition. Commander of the Negro camp at Great Lakes is tall, amiable Lieut. Commander Daniel W. Armstrong, whose family tradition fits him for the job. His father, a brigadier general at 26, commanded Negro troops in the Civil War, later founded Virginia's Hampton Institute (vocational training) for Negroes...
...Daniel Armstrong grew up around the Hampton campus, graduated from Annapolis, spent most of World War I on a destroyer, was acting commander of a pitching four-stacker when he left the Navy in 1919 to enter business. He was a petroleum company executive when the Navy recalled him two years ago as an administrator and idea man. He originated the Navy E (for excellence) program for industry, then moved on to Great Lakes...
...What we're doing here," says Commander Armstrong, "is bending every effort to make these boys as good as any fighting men the U.S. Navy has. The country doesn't yet know what a fine new source of fighting men the Navy...