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...Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style, Philip Wylie wrote the love story of a Russian girl, who had been sterilized by a bomb burst, and a U.S. major. Arthur Koestler, Marguerite Higgins, Walter Reuther, Walter Winchell and the Christian Science Monitor's Erwin Canham were on hand...
When an adman named Baldwin H. Ward became a wartime Marine lieutenant, he put out a picture history of the Marines' Pacific battles. Its success gave him an idea: Why not put out an annual picture book of the year's news? After the war, "Baldy" Ward settled in Los Angeles as FORTUNE'S West Coast advertising manager. With $25,000 of his own and $50,000 from friends, he hired part-time editors, and in 1948 put out the first edition of Year, a LIFE-like 192-page summary (with 700 pictures). It sold...
Most of the boys at school called Baudouin by an affectionate but slightly mocking nickname, "Baudruche," a nonsense version of his name (like "Baldy-Waldy" for Baldwin). Each day, Baudouin would ride to school on his bicycle, followed closely by a tutor on another. He deeply resented the close supervision; one day when the tutor wasn't looking, he let the air out of his tires. "Here," he told the tutor, "you fix this; I'll hold your bike." The tutor complied, and watched open-mouthed as the Belgian prince rode off-alone and, for once, happy...
Phil Waring was the high-scoring midfielder, registering 18 goals and nine assists. Among them the first midfield of Chuck Edwards, Skippy Baldwin, and Waring flipped in 32 goals...
Paul Jones sparked a strong defense of Bob Larsen, Art Coburn, Johnny Hartwell, and John Rodgers. Baldwin was the outstanding midfielder, often playing a whole quarter at a time...