Word: herndon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley and his cohorts can point to some circumstantial facts: Lincoln was moody and silent when questioned about his birth; his own word is the sole authority for his accepted birth date, Feb. 12, 1809; because it acknowledged but did not deny rumors of bastardy, the first edition of Herndon's biography was suppressed...
...These are the British names given to the destroyers Herndon, Crowninshield, Cowell, A. P. Upshur, Shubrick, Bailey, Yarnall. Some other British rechristenings: Thatcher into Niagara, Mackenzie into Annapolis, Hunt into Broadway...
...electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight destroyers all told-had left Boston, still flying the U. S. flag and the U. S. Navy's union jack (but not the commission pennants which mark ships in active U. S. service...
...suggestion that they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular cooperation which the deal represented...
Aviator Clyde Edward Pangborn, who flew around the world with Hugh Herndon Jr. in 1931, offered his services to the Canadian Government in Ottawa. In Sofia, where his father, George H. Earle, onetime Pennsylvania Governor, is Minister to Bulgaria, Son George H. IV, 23, decided to return to the U. S. to join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast...