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William G. Manson, Murfreesboro, Tennessee--Central High School, Murfreesboro...
Married. General Douglas MacArthur, 57, onetime (1930-35) U. S. Chief of Staff, now Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth: and Jean Marie Faircloth, 38, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., daughter of a Nashville flour miller, whom he met in Manila in 1935; in Manhattan's City Hall. His first wife, who divorced him in 1929, was Louise Cromwell Brooks, stepdaughter of Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, now wed to Actor Lionel Atwill...
...Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying his favored position...
Catchiest of the good tunes by Lew Pollack & Sidney D. Mitchell seems to be It's Love I'm After, sung by Judy Garland, a 14-year-old Murfreesboro, Tenn. girl...
Last week in a Murfreesboro, Ark. courtroom a Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years...