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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose home is in Cambridge, the band is normally attached to the Washington Military District and plays at all formal military occasions around the capitol. One of its principal duties is playing for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. The outfit, however, came to Cambridge directly from Des Moines, Iowa, where they were on hand for the State Centennial celebration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rank Heavy Army Band Inhabits Thayer During City Holiday Week | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

Down & Out. In Creston, Iowa, carnival magician Thomas Mays made a quarter disappear all right, then underwent an operation to have it removed from his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...nation's vacation hunger, the summer of 1946 would be remembered for more than roadside photographs. In Manhattan and many a big city the half-forgotten chatter of rivet guns sounded once more from the bare girders of new buildings. Crops were making a comeback; in Iowa the corn was pushing up 'way ahead of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Super-Colossal | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Tonight will mark the first meeting of the Cambridge chapter of the American Veterans Committee since the organization's national convention earlier this month in Des Moines, Iowa. The meeting will be held at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. opposite the City Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Chapter of A.V.C. Meets Tonight at Cambridge Y.M.C.A. | 6/25/1946 | See Source »

America's Town Meeting (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is Food Rationing Necessary to Prevent World Starvation?" Speakers: Senators George Aiken of Vermont and Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Fred H. Sexauer of the Dairymen's League Cooperative, and Harold Weston of Food for Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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