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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a poor start (he graduated close to the bottom of the West Point class of 1923), Vandenberg had forged a brilliant career. He was commander of the Ninth Air Force in World War II, head of Army's G-2 and later Director of Central Intelligence for all the armed forces. He was Deputy Commander of the A.A.F. before he succeeded Ira Eaker as Spaatz's vice chief of staff...
...year before her run-in with the federal men, Billie grossed close to $50,000, but had nothing left of her lifetime earnings of $250,000. According to her sympathetic federal prosecutor, the "worst type of parasite you can imagine" used to follow her around, charge $100 a dose for narcotics they sold to other addicts for as little as $5. By that time, Billie was looking gaunt, singing badly, and had fallen into the exasperating habit of walking out on waiting audiences without explanation...
Encouraged by the tax cut and passage of ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), trading soared to 1,778,200 shares at midweek, second best day since October. Prices went up also. In four days the Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 3.66 points to 177.61, highest close since mid-January...
Even as the bandit feud grew, so did the sum of money that police recovered in their investigations. The figure now is close to the original $50,000 removed from the smoke-filled Coop at the beginning of the year...
Dick Bezanson seemed to show no ill effects from his bout with an infected ear, as he slapped two goals past classy BLC net-minder Bill Schmidt. His mate on the close attack, Charley Gregg, showed his left handed shot to good advantage as he matched Estin with three tallies. HARVARD BLC Gregg 1.h. Weisheit Bezanson o.b. Hurley Abbot 1a Murnaghan Langer 2a Crolins Estin c Hulburd Withington 1d Dewey Snow 2d Thomas Graham pt Tinker Forsythe cp Moot Bernard g Schmidt...