Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west side of General Marshall's office might suddenly open; the lined but perky face of Secretary Stimson would appear, withdraw. General Marshall would quickly arise, walk into the Secretary's office, then, after a few minutes, return to his own desk (once the property of "Little Phil" Sheridan). Every day there are many such casual meetings between the Secretary and the Chief of Staff...
...show must go on, and so it will at 9 o'clock tonight when jazz hounds will have a chance to hear a professional jam session with former players from the bands of Bob Crosby, Kay Kyser, and Phil Harris. Directed by SO Robert K. Adams, the NTS chorus will introduce Officer William B. Chase's new song. "No Tears, Dry Eyes...
...room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former Henrietta Hartford, A. & P. heiress. Shrewd, brilliantly blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett declared that the boy she had legally adopted a decade ago was actually her own child by the late Millionaire Playboy Phil Plant. Four-times-married Miss Bennett (who got $1,000,000 and a divorce from Plant in 1930) let out the news in the course of a $550,000 court fight over the Plant estate...
...When Little Rock sold him to the Cubs, the ebullient Newsom started to drive to Chicago to congratulate Owner Phil Wrigley on getting such a superb pitcher. The car, driven at the routine Newsom rate of 90-odd miles per hour, jumped the icy road. Just before spring training, Newsom went to a mule sale, and a mule kicked his freshly healed leg into smithereens again...
Johnson waded in. He squashed the bug in production, set up new training schools, speeded development work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...