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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight...
...morning the Presidential C-54 had bored steadily westward. Now, off in the cool Northwest evening, Harry Truman could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...
Like a bull walrus on a rock, old Louis II, Prince of Monaco, basked contentedly in the Mediterranean sun. At 75, Europe's No. 1 amateur ichthyologist and ruler of its smallest principality (370 acres, 1,761 Monégasques) might well feel that in history's game of chance, luck had been with him. Of all the Continent's occupied countries, Monaco was perhaps the least scarred...
...their addiction to soap operas? NBC's supersales-minded President Niles Trammell thinks that maybe it has. This week he began gambling $10,000 a week - a record outlay for an unsponsored daytime network show -to put Fred Waring's orchestra on the fiercely competitive morning air (Mon.-Fri., 11-11:30, E.W.T.). To give the Waring broadcast every break against such popular rivals as Tom Breneman's burbling Breakfast in Hollywood (Blue, 11 a.m., E.W.T.), 137 NBC stations cleared time - even to dropping local commercial programs - to carry it. Meanwhile, NBC busied itself absorbing some...
...also a week when conflict was farthest from the common will of com mon men. Plain Russians in Moscow, bursting with good will, impartially hoist ed British and Russian soldiers and car ried them through Red Square. U.S. sol diers and correspondents in Germany found only the warmest friendliness when they managed to break past official barriers and meet Russian soldiers. Hundreds upon hundreds of letters came every day to the U.S. delegates at San Francisco, saying that the conference must find a way to peace. Ordinary Britons and Americans wanted as never before to under stand Russia, and found...