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...Winners DAVID SOUL Hutch wins libel suit against journalist who called his play the worst ever without seeing it. Funny, we almost made that call AIR VICE-MARSHAL "JOHNNIE" JOHNSON British WWII ace's medals posthumously sell for $345,200. Sensing an opportunity, Werner Klemperer's family auctions his monocle TEOFILA MARTINEZ Mayoress of Cadiz is offered a role in the new 007 movie. Rudy Giuliani was passed over despite a fresh waxing and skimpy bikini Losers CARLY FIORINA HP CEO in trouble as Hewletts and Packards oppose Compaq merger. Undoubtedly both of them once owned Presarios MARTHA STEWART...
...book makes it clear that like the rest of America's workplace, WWII allowed many more women into jobs previously held by men. Adventure newspaper strips in particular saw an influx of women pioneers. Tarpe Mill's sexy, cat-suited "Miss Fury" strip stands out, as does Dale Messick's still-enduring "Brenda Starr." As a bonus, Robbins has dug up Messick's unpublished, earlier strip proposals. Robbins super-sleuthing has even uncovered Jackie Ormes, apparently the first African-American woman with a syndicated comicstrip, "Torchy Brown," that ran sporadically from the 1930s to the 1950s in black-owned newspapers...
...formed the behemoth U.S. Steel: Excess capacity, slumping prices and profit margins squeezed by too much competition. (The pension problem came later.) That merger helped, but debt-ridden, none-too-efficient U.S. Steel steadily shed market share over the next century - especially to an explosion of foreign competitors after WWII - and today produces only marginally more steel than...
...event, presented by the Harvard University Korean Association, was part of a national college tour by Hwang to “recognize the sufferings and therein commemorate the lives of all 200,000 comfort women of WWII...
...material for their songs naturally stems from their shared experiences. Their most widely recognized song, “The General,” is about a grandfatherly commanding officer who frees his soldiers from their responsibilities; the backstory being that Chad’s grandfather, who served in WWII, used to admire Dispatch when they first started out. The band had to make a tough decsion to continue recording the song when Chad’s grandfather passed away and subsequently added a recording of the war veteran speaking about his experiences in combat that can only be heard when...