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Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...
...sudden withdrawal from London would wreck any currency stabilization plan. But Britain's position is far stronger than often supposed. Through her ability to give Lend-Lease in reverse, and to supply Lend-Lease to Russia on an equal if not bigger scale than the U.S., Britain has shown her inherent industrial potential. In the course of the war she has sharply increased the skill and efficiency of her labor. Her proved ability to build high-grade aircraft, plus her far-flung bases, should give her a substantial slice of postwar air traffic. Finally, to the degree that...
Biggest, most far-flung application came from New England's little Northeast Airlines, which before the war operated only a handful of airplanes over 869 miles between Boston and New Brunswick, has since grown toward postwar power on military cargo flights across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 14). Now Northeast wants to fly passengers, mail and express freight over 22,866 route miles between Boston, Moscow and at least nine other European cities: "Boston to Moscow in 18 hours ... at [fares] no greater than third-class transatlantic steamship fare." Other applications...
Thrashing their way through the hundred-odd titles suggested by far-flung enthusiasts for the new serviceman's weekly, harrassed Crimson editors finally came up for breath last night, with the winning title for the paper, and the name of the reciplent of a $25 war bond...
...weekly New York edition of the Post was decided on to repudiate the Jap propaganda sheet now published in Shanghai under the Post's respected masthead. Starr's far-flung friends send in many a news tip about Far East affairs. So far the New York edition, tabloid size, has about 8,500 readers...