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Amon Carter Jr., 32, son of the publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (circ. 232,861), stepped into the job he had been groomed for during the past 20 years. A paper-tosser with a regular route at eleven, he moved up to office boy, then staff photographer (as a tank commander in North Africa, he was captured, held prisoner by the Germans for 27 months). Later he sold advertising, was promoted to advertising manager and member of the board of directors of the company. Last week he was named president of the company, and Amon Sr. moved...
...John O'Donnell, in a rare moment of benign relaxation, fondly recalled that the King was known to a group of U.S. war correspondents by the unofficial code name, "Harry the Horse,"* when he visited France in the early days of World War II. Manhattan's World-Telegram & Sun stamp writer dashed off a column under the head: KING'S DEATH SPELLS NEW BRITISH ISSUES. The Brooklyn Eagle reported that the King died at "2:30 a.m. Brooklyn time." The Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic took the longest reach of all, ran a statement from climate-plugging Governor Howard...
...House telephone operator tried to get him at C.I.O. headquarters in the capital. The call finally reached Murray when he got to his Pittsburgh office next morning. Harry Truman and Phil Murray talked for several minutes. After they hung up, Murray consulted his policy committee and dispatched a terse telegram to his locals: "Stay...
Within 48 hours-by radio, TV, press report and Pentagon telegram-the U.S. people knew the best and the worst of the news from the enemy. Eight thousand of the 11,000 American families, whose sons, brothers, husbands and fathers had been listed as missing in action, could only hope against fading hope, or pray that the names they could not find would yet turn up in the ranks of the living. The kinfolk of the 3,198 identified U.S. captives wept, laughed, gave fervent thanks-and all the U.S. shared their painful...
...Walter Fox listened as the radio gave the names from the Communist list. "Don't worry, Mom," said one of the younger children. "Ronald's name is going to be on that list." A few minutes later, a Western Union messenger knocked on the door. The telegram he handed Mrs. Fox was from the Defense Department: her son, reported missing last July, had been killed in action...