Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps too interested in color and not enough in facts, a New York Daily News copyreader last week embroidered an A.P. story about Harry Robert Bell of West Palm Beach, Fla., just home from the wars. If he had stopped to think, he would probably not have dressed up Bell as "the nation's first draftee"-since there were 6,175 duplicates of "First Draftee" Bell, all holders of local draft boards...
Among other items, Michigan's Engel said he had found that the Army wasted $250 million of $800 million spent on cantonments for 1,200,000 men; that examples of "outrageous waste" were Camp Blanding, Fla. (near Jacksonville), where a bad choice of sites cost an unnecessary $5 million; Camp Meade, where the Army spent $17,364 to build the same kind of barracks which cost $9,822 at Camp...
...People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach, Fla...
Divorced. By Christine Cromwell White, 23, only daughter of onetime Diplomat James (Jimmy) H. R. Cromwell, ex-husband of Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them...
Fort Walton, Fla...