Word: uso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
...Life. At Fort Devens, Mass., USO Actor Ray Rand, who played the role of a measles victim, found he had measles...
...School (Communication and Indoctrination) coming in a close second if no acceptable entries come in, the CRIMSON Board of Editors will choose a name (this is a final threat to get all Army and Navy men or women to submit names) and will donate the War Bond to the USO...
Frazier added that the concert was a complete sell-out, and had been for a fortnight, but that this was a tribute more to Russian Relief than to Duke. It may be the case again up here, though the benefit is for the USO this time, but anyone who goes to hear the music will not have any regrets...
...Constitution Hall. Three days later, unable to wait any longer in the Union Station for Daughter Anna Boettiger and Son-in-Law John (whose train was late) she walked the mile and a half back to the White House with a soldier she had met in the USO lounge...