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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Peak. Spruce but hatless, Hoagy had flown into Indianapolis from Los Angeles earlier in the week, dashed straight to the Murat Theater to oversee the rehearsals. Conductor Sevitzky* made room for him next to the podium, and after the photographers had finished crawling under the music racks to snap the new composer, the orchestra got down to work. Hoagy stood by intently, rolling his tongue in his cheeks as he always does when he is composing or listening to a song he has recorded...
Surgeon Toma has done his operations at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, some distance from the homes. Next month a new 59-bed, $500,000 hospital at Pacific Home will be dedicated by Governor Earl Warren and U.C.L.A.'s Provost Clarence Dykstra. Built by the contributions of the wealthy residents of Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, Pacific Home Memorial Hospital will be complete with laboratory, X-ray machines and the latest in surgical gadgets...
...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...
...Midwest hooted at Mary and Joseph Pugmire and threw them into jail. It was against the law to preach in the streets. Between jail terms, on March 4, 1888, Mary Pugmire bore her first child. In the next 14 years, between Hallelujah-singing and evangelizing in the U.S., Canada and England, she bore six more. Her first child was son Ernest...
...Jones industrial average rose 3.37 points to 198.05, the highest since August 1946. Most spectacular rise: Superior Oil Co. (California) which in three days jumped 69½ points to 227 on the news of a plan to split it into two gas & oil companies. Wall Streeters now expect the next test of the market at 200. If the bull gets over that hurdle, he might run pretty fast...