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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convincing forgery with an old thieves' trick-copying a signature upside down.* But forgers who can amass riches are rare. As every detective-story reader knows, most such slippery geniuses blossom in foreign capitals. But last week, with pardonable pride, the Federal Bureau of Investigation added to the list of master forgers the name of Chicago-born Alexander D. L. Thiel (rhymes with steal...
...Rest of the List. For the rest of its job, Ordnance could claim more than a passing grade. It had the best rifle in the world-the Garand (which the riflewise Marine Corps had originally rejected after exhaustive tests, thus proving that there is more than one judgment to be made about any weapon). It had been first on the field with the bazooka...
...poem by a West Virginian gets into the Congressional Record, they rush the news to the home folks. When Kentucky-born Fred Vinson was appointed Federal Loan Administrator, they reminded their listeners that he had relatives "all over the western part of West Virginia," and read off the list of names...
...never worked hard at being an airman, and four-starred "Bull" Halsey, who was 52 before he ever had a control stick in his hands. This week, naval aviators who had been busy at flying since they were youngsters watched anxiously for the Navy's list of promotions to four-star rank. But they watched without much hope. To the Navy's crusty hierarchy, top naval airmen are still young, i.e., under...
Treasured Tatters. G.I. tastes, says Editor Stern, have followed those of civilians pretty closely, except that the soldiers have little use for war books. In a list that includes most recent bestsellers, many classics and a few anthologies, the most popular to date is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One marine, after more than two years in the Pacific, read A Tree and claimed that it changed his whole life...