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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safety. In Norristown, Pa., Fire Chief Miles Riley decided to keep his old-fashioned safety nets when a fireman, demonstrating the superiority of a new and improved chute, broke his elbow. In Jacksonville, the Citizens Safety Committee adjourned its meeting when a committee member rose from his chair and was knocked flat by an opening door...
Married. Marion Wick Kelly, 26, widow of the late, famed U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr., bomber of the Jap battleship Haruna; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Watson Pedlow, 35, peacetime chemical engineer (American Viscose Corp.); in Crozierville, Pa. The mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will...
...Senior seven are Hugh Calkins '45 of Newton, Army; Peter W. Fay '45, of Cambridge, Army; George W. Kennerly '44, Belmont; Cornelius Lansing '45, Chappaqua, New York, Army Medical Reserve; David R. Matlack '44, Germantown, Pa., NROTC; Irving Rudmand '45, Dorchester, Army Medical Reserve; and Daniel L. Salem '44, Cambridge, Fighting French...
Defeat at Gettysburg. In Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
...members now have an estimated 600,000 sons in the armed services, has changed its mind. It appropriated $250,000 for "an intelligent, aggressive campaign to inform eligible veterans of the advantages offered by the American Legion," put at the head of the drive James E. Isherwood of Waynesburg, Pa. who is being groomed as next year's National Commander...