Word: shreveporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...
Died. William Kennon ("Hello World") Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
March. In New Britain, Japanese troops charged American lines, shouting "To hell with Babe Ruth!" April. In Shreveport, La., Lucille Cash, chased by her husband, cleared a seven-foot barbed-wire fence...
Spring. In Shreveport, La., Lucille Cash, chased by her husband, cleared a seven-foot barbed-wire fence...