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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ditto. In Uniontown, Pa., sisters Frances and Julia Nypaver married brothers Paul and Martin Dvorchak the same day, one year later had babies on the same day, nine years later again had children on the same...
Said Pfc. Jack Loeb of Elkins Park, Pa., who had gone to the Conference to see "what we were fighting for": "If it was me, I'd just tell them all to go to hell." As the delegates disputed, he whispered: "Why don't they just take a vote on it? That's what we used to do in high school...
...Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (You Can't Take It With You, Lady in the Dark, The Man Who Came to Dinner); and Kitty Carlisle, 30, musical-comedy star (Three Waltzes), cinemactress (She Loves Me Not, A Night at the Opera); both for the first time; in New Hope, Pa...
...second day of the hearing at Reading, Pa. a witness walked in with a handful of scored and pitted electrical fittings from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the answer to the most publicized of recent airplane crashes. The cause: a smoking short circuit in the forward baggage compartment of the sleek Connie, where wires from the generators are piped into the pressurized fuselage...
...Harry, Jack, Abe and Sam (now dead)-were sons of a Polish immigrant who became an Ohio butcher. About 1905 the brothers got hold of a projection machine and began to pick up a few dollars exhibiting The Great Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named...