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...Washington the U.S. Navy Chaplains Office announced that it will shortly select two Negro clergymen (from applications coming in daily) to be the Navy's first Negro chaplains. Like other Navy chaplains, their age will determine their commissions: if under 38 they will be lieutenants, junior grade; if over 38, full lieutenants. In World War I the U.S. Army had 57 Negro chaplains: today, there are over 300 in service...
...Prime Minister Churchill to select a committee whose postwar job will be to restore works of art looted by the Nazis...
...station, the Mild & Bitter, had just made history: she was back from her 100th combat mission. Sergeant Stuart, her crew chief, had sweated out every one of the 100 for her; now he would check her over and get her ready for Mission 101. Mild & Bitter thus joined the select company of famed warplanes of World War II-planes like the embattled Fortresses Memphis Belle and Hell's Angels, and the R.A.F.'s Lancaster S for Sugar...
...hearings before the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy, Army leaders plumped solidly for a thorough reorganization of the national military setup. The basic plan: merger of the War and Navy Departments into a single department of the armed forces...
...heavy-jawed, hot-tempered, producer-squeezing, multimillionaire cinemactors' agent; of abdominal hemorrhages; in Santa Monica, Calif. Schoolboys Myron and David Selznick got $1,000-a-week allowances from their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring up to the $23,000,000 Select Pictures Corp. The brothers later made their own film fortune, separated in 1929 when Myron began his rise to key power as filmdom's No. 1 talent-broker...