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Died. Clyde LaVerne Herring, 66, onetime Iowa Governor (1932-1936) and New Dealing U.S. Senator (1937-1942); of a heart ailment; in Washington. Periodically startled by what he heard on the radio (Mae West, Boris Karloff...
...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...
...Mae West, always good for a quote or two, first told a Variety reporter that "a lot of loving is coming back from the war," then shook an admonishing finger at her sisters in arms: "Many wonderful men are already on the way home to their wives and sweethearts, and the lady who has been stepping out had best begin to polish off her low talk and shifty ways before he arrives...
...Mae West, who has been her own best press agent as well as author-star of Catherine Was Great, continued her city-to-city commentary on life & love. In Detroit, she was pleased to announce that "the best way to hold a man is in your arms. ... In wartime, love is a little more hysterical. . . . These days I think love is being kicked around too much . . . it ain't lofty enough...
Preliminary landings were made on several tiny islands west of Okinawa-in the Kerama Rhetto, and, the Japs said, also on Mae, Kamiyama. Then, at 8:30 on Easter Sunday morning, the Okinawa invasion was launched. After a ferocious preparatory bombardment, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger...