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...superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...Hoyt's place came 38-year-old, Natchez-born George W. Healy, on a ten-months leave of absence from his job as managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The reserved Mr. Healy had no plans for any change in the Domestic Branch's inherited setup. When he returns next October to Louisiana, his predecessor may be well on his way back to Washington, though in another branch of government. For the State of Oregon will have to pick a new Senator...
...Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, it was routine. But for seven U.S. correspondents, permitted...
...Crosby find of the season, Danish Comedian Victor Borge, produced some delayed-action gags at the piano. Bing got back in the big American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials...
Mayor Byrne, who likes to talk about Natchez' new tire factory, her ski-manufacturing plant, and her romantic sawmills, was out of town. On business...