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...might have chosen to run the story in their own news columns. Under the new system, Weekly stories will be ordered direct through the local Hearst publisher. If the plan works (i.e., if other Hearst brass hats will play along), Howey will have the whole Hearst empire at his beck & call...
...pilots returning from bombing Japan often call Iwo "the most beautiful place in the world." Reason: by last week 1,400 of the Superforts (carrying 15,400 airmen) had made emergency landings on Iwo's runways. Lieut. Alvin Beck of Fort Wayne had flown eleven missions and landed on Iwo five times. Said Lieut. Don Midlam of Lima, Ohio: "Whenever I land on this island, I thank God, and the men who fought...
...King," was sued in Manhattan for $500,000 by his godchild, French-born Suzanne Auclert Roth, 24. Her charge: Patiňo, worth an estimated $500 million, had promised her $1,000 a month for the rest of her life as "a social companion . . . always to be at his beck and call." But, she complained, he stopped beckoning-and the payments...
...junction with Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. Together they would cut Czechoslovakia from Austria, tear the entire side out of the mountain fortress the Germans hoped to hold. The British crossed the Elbe near Hamburg in the north for a drive toward Lübeck. The U.S. Ninth and the U.S. First, southwest of Berlin, broke out for more linkups with Russian troops...
Said Plant Manager Gerold P. Wieden-beck, well aware that his plan is expensive, and of no help to more complicated production jobs: "We could set up an efficient plant, but the batteries can't wait...