Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Marjorie Vattendahl Bong, 22, comely widow of U.S. Ace of Aces (40 kills) Major Richard I. Bong; and James H. Baird, 22, youthful Los Angeles businessman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
Last week the townspeople of Fulton agreed that never had Bullet shot so high, or rung the bell such a bong. For the college's annual Green Foundation lecture, supposed to be delivered by a bigwig "of international reputation," Bullet McCluer boldly went after really big game. He confided in Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to Harry Truman, a star football center at Westminster when Bullet was a star debater. Vaughan took him in to see the President. Look, said Bullet, talking fast, what a great idea it would be-especially at Fulton, in the heart...
Charles A. Lindbergh's shooting role in the war ceased to be a scuttlebutt topic. A press association reported: Civilian Lindbergh, in 1944, as a technical adviser in the South Pacific, went out in a formation with Major Richard ("Dick") Bong. A Zero jumped them. Civilian Lindbergh fired one burst from the guns...
...Women. In northern Luzon, the 32nd Division's all-male 107th Medical Battalion baseball team played the Bayom-bong Filipino Girls' Club, lost the game...
Major Richard I. Bong's 21-year-old widow, Marjorie, announced that she had started writing a biography of the ace of aces a month before his death (without telling him) and would now settle down to finishing it, in Hollywood...