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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Hastings, 34, wartime WAC corporal who was beloved of the tabloids in 1945 when she and two G.I.s were stranded for 47 days in a remote New Guinea valley after their plane had crashed; and Robert Atkinson, 29, insurance salesman; he for the second time; on June 24; in Forestville...
Marriage Revealed. George Huntington Hartford II, 38, A. & P.* chain store heir (and grandson of the founder); and Marjorie Sue Steele, 19, onetime nightclub cigarette girl; he for the second time; on Sept. 10; in Gardnerville...
Arnold never flew a plane to combat. In World War I he became the youngest colonel in the U.S. Army and the second-ranking air officer, but he was kept in Washington. His account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too late. Billy Mitchell wanted to bomb Germany, but the U.S. hadn't a single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold...
...publishing trade confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male readers are likely to conclude that ex-Sportwriter Gallico made more sense in his unsentimental story of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight...