Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enlisted Reserve Corps enlistments for men in college, including those under 18, will close, not to be reopened, on December 1, Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau, warned students yesterday...
Homo Frustratus. In Denver, Cyclist Francis Sargent, nipped by a dog, fired his revolver, slightly wounding the dog and his own ankle, was arrested for cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
Domestic Relations Bureau: Ava Gardner, 19-year-old actress wife of Mickey Rooney since January, dropped her divorce suit, announced things were going to be patched up. From Rooney, still home with mother, came silence...
...Stellung Line. A native of Adrian, Mich., Barney Darnton started his press career on the Sandusky (Mich.) Herald a few years after the Armistice, progressed through the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Bulletin and Ledger, and the New York Post, to city editor of the A.P.'s New York Bureau. He was already a corking good newspaperman when he went to work for the Times in 1934, the kind of newspaperman that other newspapermen are proud of. Many an Australian, British and U.S. reporter said so last week to the Times. So did General MacArthur, who wired: "He served with...
...activities of the Society are en- dorsed by such men as Edward W. Forbes '95, James B. Munn '12, and Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Information Bureau...