Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Robert L. Eichelberger to take command of all the Buna forces, which included the 41st Infantry Division-as green as the 32nd-and units of the 6th and 7th Australians. MacArthur's instructions to Eichelberger: don't come back until Buna is taken. Brigadier General Albert Whitney Waldron, put in command of the 32nd, was wounded. Brigadier General Clovis Byers succeeded him and he was wounded. Buna finally fell...
Born. To Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 45, well-fixed U.S. Army Air Forces Plans Division officer; and his third wife, Eleanor Searle Whitney; 35, oratorio singer: their (and her) first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Name Cornelius Searle. Weight...
...what I want to know, Lucky Bag, is, "Is it true, W. H. B. is still wearing that moldy old red sweat shirt?". Saltily, Jack Smellvile Whitney...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...
Colonel John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 40, who became the Nazis' richest U.S. prisoner when he was captured in southern France a month ago, escaped from a prison train, made his way back to U.S. lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train...