Word: mid-august
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...mid-August before the 37th and the 43rd (New England National Guard) could report the airfield secured...
...week's end, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill Chaplin, the 54-year-old comedian's fourth wife, said she expected a baby in mid-August: "I hope this news will stop a lot of those silly rumors that are going around. If the baby is a boy we'll name him Lee, I guess. I don't know what it'll be if it's a girl, but it won't be Oona...
...Trobriand and Woodlark islands and on the edges of Huon Gulf gave MacArthur and Kenney fighter protection for their bombers on the Rabaul run. The Fifth had already hit the right flank of the divided Japanese air strength at Wewak, where the Japs have lost about 500 planes since mid-August. Next, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Solomons softened the Japs in an aerial battle over Kahili, southeast of Rabaul...
Parleys, Part II. In mid-August an Italian officer, presumably General Castellano, aide to Marshal Badoglio, dropped in at Madrid, ostensibly on a mission that had nothing to do with surrender. Secretly he called on British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare. Next day the Italian officer appeared in Lisbon, called on British Ambassador Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell...
Harvard's Allport, helped by Elizabeth Winship, examined 3,226 headlines printed in a dozen representative papers between mid-August and mid-November, 1942-a period in which the good news of North Africa was balanced by grim news from other fronts. He found 1,918 of the headlines optimistic (U.S. FLEET ROUTS JAPS), only 703 pessimistic (MEATLESS DAYS LOOM) and 605 neutral (CONVOY STORY TOLD...