Around the W>rld News in Pictures'
VET S CREETIN C—CpI. Paul R. Comeau of Cambridge,
Mass., first World War II veteran *to be discharged at separation
center at Fort Devens, Mass., greets Pvt. John C. Douglas (left) of
Cranston, R. I„ newly inducted soldier.
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? N E W MARINE MAJO R—Kathleen Bagley Hogan (cen
. ter) of Stamford, Conn., receives her new major’s gold leaves
from Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter (right), director of the USMC
women’s reserve, and her assistant, Maj. Helen G. O’Neill.
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' The newspaper profession has furnished many editors-in-chief for
i' Encyclopaedia Britannica. Of the eleven editors of Britannica, six
'.were newspapermen and most of the others were contributors or
. pamphleteers which two centuries ago amounted to the same thing.
. The first editor was William Smellie, (1740 to 1795) right above, who
.'with Andrew Bell, engraver, brought forth th^ first edition of the pub
* lication in Scotland in 1768. MacVey Napier (1776-1847) was the edi
'. tor of the Edinburgh Review and edited the supplements to the fourth
■vand fifth editions, and a'<*n worked on the seventh. Walter Yust, left
!.above, present ed- > veteran newspaperman, has edited all
^'Britannica puH; have been several new ones—since 1938.
.He has heen a*-.. ... .. ..«i a number of will-known United States
! newspapers • • •
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IDEAL —Dancing masters of
America holding their annual
convention in Chicago, voted
Carl Brisson (above), singer and
entertainer, the “ideal male ,
dancing partner.” I
MAGIC ON THE MALL — Arnold Furst, magician who
has traveled 62,500 miles in the Pacific and European theaters
entertaining troops, exhibits his rabbit, Oscar, in a show for the
National War Fund in Central Park. *N. V.
NEW STYLE PUMPKIN •—For a modernistic Hallo
we’en, songstress Ginny Simms finds really fancy jack-o’-lantern.
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HOMEMADE FUDGE on the Isle of Capri, peacetime paradise
for tourists, is a wartime treat for American soldiers and Red Cross
girls. Cooks. 0« to r.), are Sgt. Howard Atwell, Colwin, Pa.; Sgt.
Sterling Holloway, Hollywood; and T/S Clyde Decker, Bennington,
Neb. ♦
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COMMANDE R—This pho
tographic study of Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, commander of
all Allied forces on the western
front, is the latest formal picture
of the general.
ST. LOUIS — Soundphoto — Re
grets? We hardly think these were
Me thoughts of Cpl. Johr.ny Spil
‘sne as he stood alone locking out
over the field at Sportsmans Park,
ere, during the World Series,
ohnny rejected a Cardinal contract
to sign up with the Marines and
lost his right arm tossing back Jap
grenades at Tarawa. The Cardi
nals won the World Series — 4
,'mes to the Browns* 2 games.