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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precisely the way rebellious Navy airmen had hoped. Instead of fighting it out with camera guns at 40,000 feet, they will have to leave the decision up to the 18,000 vacuum tubes of the Army's $400,000 electronic brain at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground...
Elsewhere in the following cities, radio stations will be broadcasting the game: Fall River, W. Yarmouth, Cicopee, and New Bedford, Mass.; Torrington and Hartford, Conn.; Corning, Schenectady, Buffalo, and Ithaca, N. Y.; Harrisburg and Lancaster, Pa.; Portsmouth, N. H.; Baltimore, Md.; and Woonsoceket...
...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...
...years before-almost to the day -Dunc Taylor had taken the one-a-day train out of Oxford, Md., a quiet fishing hamlet on the Eastern Shore, and gone to work for TIME. Born in East Orange, N.J., educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...