Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corry, Pa...
...Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
Flicker. In the streets of Uniontown, Pa., where he was born 63 years ago, George Marshall was known as "Flicker." (Ever since, his natural dignity has repelled nicknames - while the first-naming President calls Admiral King "Ernie," he always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th...
Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport, Pa...
Williamsport, Pa. Grit also will go tabloid at year's end. A flamboyant, copiously illustrated country weekly that goes to some 580,000 readers in & near 16,000 small U.S. towns, Grit has been informing and entertaining rural America for 61 years. Its formula: a summary of the week's news, plenty of almanackish data, homemaking hints, news and features about Hollywood, radio and sports...