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...Atlanta, Ga...
Died. Ivy Wingo, 50, oldtime major-league baseball star, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds when they defeated the Chicago Black Sox in the famed crooked world series of 1919; in Norcross. Ga...
...move was made by Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the Foreign Relations Committee, after Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va., had advocated invocation of the Senate's most drastic weapon--cloture--to shorten the discussion and after oppositionists had been denounced from the floor as aiding the Axis cause by delaying a final vote...
Last week the Army got a new Chief of Infantry: Major General Courtney H. Hodges, 54. Among other infantrymen, it was a popular promotion. Now commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., General Hodges will take over his new job on May 23, when blocky, phlegmatic Major General George Arthur Lynch's four-year tour as Chief expires...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange, Ga...