Word: pittsburgh
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Born. To Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 27, Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis in one action), and May Frances Boish Kelly, 21: their second child, first son; in Pittsburgh. Name: Charles Jr. Weight...
...Including the Mellon interests of Pittsburgh; Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America); Bache & Co.'s Frank T. Ryan; Glore, Forgan & Co.; London's Hambros Bank, Ltd. and Robert Benson & Co., Ltd. Besides Stettinius and Grew, the individuals include the wartime OSS head, Major General William J. Donovan; Willys-Overland's Chairman James D. Mooney; Atlas Corp.'s L. Boyd Hatch, and Sir William Stephenson, British industrialist...
While compiling this record Buff became involved in a coaching setup as intricate as any of his winged-T offensive maneuvers. He opened the 1941 season as head coach of both the Duquesne eleven and the professional Pittsburgh Steelers, staying at the head of the pro team until the last game of the season. At that time however when he traveled to the coast to lead the Dukes against St. Mary's, thereby stranding the Steelers in the east, the professionals decided to part ways...
...Right to Be Wrong. Editor Leech's mailbox was soon full of letters accusing him of censorship. But was it? What vested right did Cartoonist Capp have to appear in the Pittsburgh Press? To accuse Editor Leech of censorship was to say that an editor's duty was to run everything his staff wrote and everything he bought from a syndicate. Editor Leech may have been wrong, but he had a right to be: in an era of canned journalism, he at least had the privilege of choosing what to spoon out of the cans...
Died. Mary Blair, 52, onetime Broadway actress, onetime wife of Litterateur Edmund Wilson (the first of his four); of tuberculosis; in Pittsburgh. Leading lady in several Eugene O'Neill plays, she created a furore in 1924 when, as Negro Actor Paul Robeson's play-wife in All God's Chillun Got Wings, she nightly kissed his hand onstage...