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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
...atoll (pop. 60)-but there was a radio ham, Steve Barnes. Barnes went to work, finally tuned in an old friend and fellow ham, Joseph Bonsted, 6,000-miles away.in Audubon, NJ. Said Barnes: "Joe, there's been an accident here. Can you get a doctor?" The nearest doctor was operating in the Audubon Hospital. Surgeon Ralph W. Davis paused long enough in his operation to give some terse instructions: "Tourniquets, loosened every 20 to 30 minutes, plasma transfusions. No morphine; he may have a fractured skull...
...Nearest miss: "Nürnberg is a German war criminal who was hanged...
...York Yankees were so hot that, with the season half over, they were now favorites to win their first American League pennant in four years. On the Fourth of July, they were a very comfortable 7½ games ahead of their nearest rival. It was the kind of lead that the Yankees used to enjoy in the days of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, but the 1947 Yankees got there by different methods. They no longer specialized in slaughtering the opposition with the home run and the big inning (the National Leaguers were doing that now). Instead, the Yankees relied...
Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...