Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> He expressed misgivings about the nation's mood. The people, he said, are complacent because they get only the rosier side of war. (Example: pictures from Sicily, where the Allies suffered 25,000 casualties, have been mostly fluff-Sicilians tossing posies at U.S. troops, throwing fruit at Mussolini posters...
In the White House one day last week President Roosevelt, and OWI Boss Elmer Davis, who had been pointedly not invited to the Quebec conference, sat down to discuss news and news policies. The President and three representatives (War, Navy and State Departments) mostly listened. Elmer Davis, disgruntled over the...
Died. Arthur Farnsworth, 36, aeronautical-parts executive, husband of Screen Tragedienne Bette Davis; two days after he dropped unconscious on Hollywood Boulevard, two months after a head-banging fall downstairs; in Hollywood.
This smart move permanently preserves one of the notable performances of recent years-Paul Lukas' portrayal of Kurt Muller, the mild-looking German engineer who has long been risking his neck in Europe's anti-Nazi underground, but is patronized by his wife's rich Washington family...
Married. Ensign Evan Welling Thomas II, 23, son of Socialist Norman Thomas; and Anna Davis Robins, 18, daughter of Hewitt Rubber Co. President Thomas Robins Jr.; in Buffalo.