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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Female relatives of the late Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, former vice chairman of the Maritime Commission, had been in special demand as bottle-smashers. Five had received $6,457.65 in shipyard gifts; Daughter Barbara's share included two diamond bracelets. Ernie Pyle's widow, for christening a ship named in her husband's honor, was handed a $25 gimmick...
...anticipated, Connecticut Republicans last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles...
Last week Dewavrin, stripped of rank and honors, and some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...
...Edward L. Flanagan, a graduate of Holy Cross in 1931, has been appointed assistant track coach, it has been announced by William J. Bingham, director of Athletics. The now soach will assume his duties imediately...
Other backers of the group which encompasses Boston University, Emerson, Harvard, Radcliffe, Simmons, and Wellsley, include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Raymond Swing, Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, F. O. Matthiessen '27, and John L. Saltonstall...