Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALICE PLITTALL, R.N. Cleveland, Ohio...
When it's midnight in Manhattan, it's 11 p.m. in Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago, 10 in Denver. This simple fact of U.S. time zones may soon make big names out of several little-known dance bands. Last week, with Washington's curfew on nightspots about to cut Manhattan's big bands off the air at the stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis...
Added to the Toronto-New York City flight were these new routes for Trans-Canada Air Lines: Halifax to Boston, Toronto to Cleveland, Toronto to Chicago, Port Arthur to Duluth, Victoria to Seattle, Whitehorse to Fairbanks. The new U.S. commercial routes: New York City (or Boston) to Quebec, New York City to Ottawa (or Montreal), Washington to Ottawa (or Montreal), Seattle to Whitehorse...
...Athletic Director Roy ("Legs") Hawley of West Virginia University told of bookies trying to set up an information pipeline to his gym. A Cleveland operator had offered a weekly fee to one of Hawley's players if he would report the physical condition of the squad, its mental attitude, prospective changes in lineup the day before each game...
...There was the 37th Division, once Ohio National Guard, and still the "Buckeye Division" although its troops from Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and a thousand Ohio towns and hamlets now served alongside fighting men drafted from across the nation. Its commander, 52-year-old Robert Sprague Beightler, was a civilian soldier with active service on the /Mexican border and in World War I. Between wars he had been a construction engineer, had become director of Ohio's State Highway Department. Round-faced, warm-eyed General Beightler had been the first National Guard officer to lead his division into combat...