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Lots More. In Fort Myers, Fla., Real Estate Agent Tom Philips swapped a piece of land in a residential section of town for fifteen cartons of cigarets. Said Smoker Philips: "I've got more lots than will power...
Married. Beatrice Wasserman Buchalter, 40, nightclubbing widow of Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, gangster, and labor racketeer executed last year for a Murder, Inc. slaying; and Arthur Jarwood, 37, onetime Manhattan nightclub proprietor; she for the third time, he for the second; in St. Petersburg, Fla...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
Noms de Guerre. In Fort Lewis, Wash., one Arthur Admiral signed up for service in the Navy. In Pensacola, Fla., Chester O. Ensign Jr. was commissioned a Naval ensign. At Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...