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Morning all. 65F under cloudy skies. Another humid day, isolated storms possible. High of 77F.
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Boeing Ad - May 1942
1939: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.
1940: British cipher experts at Bletchley Park break the Luftwaffe Enigma code.
1940: The XIX Panzerkorps (Guderian) strikes from Abbeville toward Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk along the Channel coast.
*Acquanetta
1941: Himmler establishes Norwegian SS on German lines.
1941: British blockade of Vichy France made complete.
Acquanetta
1941: Heavy German air attacks on Crete sink the cruisers Fiji, Gloucester and the destroyer Greyhound. The Battleships Warspite and Valiant are damaged, but the Royal Navy breaks up German supply convoy.
1941: Fierce fighting continues as British troops begin to pull back from Maleme airfield towards Suda Bay in order to regroup and protect their main point of supply.
1941: British forces capture the last Italian stronghold in southern Abyssinia.
Acquanetta
1942: The 6th Army and Kleist's Panzer's meets thereby pinching of the Russian salient Southeast of Kharkov.
1945: Montgomery is appointed as C-in-C of the British force of occupation in Germany and a British member of the allied control commission.
1945: 'Sugar Loaf Hill' on Okinawa is finally taken by U.S. troops after changing hands 11 times in the last few days.
Acquanetta
*Acquanetta, nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano" by Universal Studios was a B-movie actress known for her exotic beauty.
She was born Burnu Acquanetta on July 17, 1921 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania as Mildred Davenport after she was given up by her biological parents. Burnu means "burning fire, deep water".
Acquanetta started her career as a model in New York City with Harry Conover. She signed with Universal Studios in 1942 and acted mostly in B-movies, including "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" (1946), "Arabian Nights" (1942), "The Sword of Monte Cristo" (1951), and "Captive Wild Woman" (1943), in which Universal attempted to create a female monster movie franchise with Acquanetta as an ape. Acquanetta more or less ended her screen career in a weak Poverty Row sci-fi, "The Lost Continent" (1951), though she did appear though uncredited in "Callaway Went Thataway" (1951) and "Take the High Ground!" (1953).
She retired from movies in the 1950s after marrying Jack Ross, a car dealer. They settled in Mesa, Arizona, and she returned to a degree of celebrity by appearing with Ross in his local television advertisements, and also by hosting a local television show called Acqua's Corner that accompanied the Friday late-night movies. She and Ross had four children, and divorced in the 1980s.
Acquanetta
Acquanetta also authored a book of poetry, "The Audible Silence", illustrated by Emilie Touraine (Flagstaff, AZ): Northland Press, 1974. In 1987, the all-girl band The Aquanettas adopted (and adapted) their name from hers.
Acquanetta used her celebrity and charming personality to support/raise money for a number of cultural groups and charities including: Mesa Lutheran Hospital, the Heard Museum, the Phoenix Indian School, Stagebrush Theatre, and the Phoenix Symphony.
Acquanetta succumbed to complications of Alzheimer's disease shortly after 4 a.m. on August 16, 2004, at Hawthorn Court in Ahwatukee, Arizona. She was 83.
She was survived by four sons: Jack Ross Jr. 45, Lance Ross 50, Tom Ross 47 and Rex Ross 43. She is also survived by her brother Horace Davenport, 85, a retired Pennsylvania judge.
Boeing Ad - May 1945
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Makes me wish I had the funds to build a PC with the latest specs, and the VR. Thanks for sharing your experiences C3PO.
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Morning all. 67F under cloudy skies. Scattered showers possible again today, very humid. Wind from the S at 10-15 mph. High of 75F.
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Texaco Ad - May 1943
1940: Its announced that over 250,000 men enrolled into the LDV in just the first 24 hours.
1940: Luftwaffe bomb Channel ports and the RAF attack Rotterdam's refineries.
*Brenda Marshall
1940: The isolated German troops at Narvik are now close to exhaustion and will be unable to hold out for very much longer.
1940: A British counter attack is launched near Arras with armoured and infantry support against Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, throwing it off balance. A similar attack in the south by a French armoured brigade under General de Gaulle fails after initial success. The French Ninth Army is surrounded and destroyed, its commander, General Giraud, taken prisoner.
Brenda Marshall
1941: It's announced that Women's Land Army now more than 11,000 strong.
1941: Vichy military court sentences 56 NCO's and privates, siding with de Gaulle to death or hard labour in absentia. All property of free French fighters is to be confiscated.
1941: Against strict orders not to attack American vessels, the US merchant ship Robin Moor is sunk by U-69 (Kptlt. Metzler). This sinking of a neutral American vessel is publicly denounced by President Roosevelt and becomes yet another argument for him in his secret desire for bringing the United States into war against Germany.
Brenda Marshall
1941: An RAF reconnaissance plane sight the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen in the port of Bergen, allowing the British Home Fleet time to ready plans to intercept them in the earlier hours of the 22nd May.
1941: 80 Ju-52s crash land a regiment of 5th Gebirgsjäger Division to support the hard-pressed paratroopers who are defending Maleme airfield. A British counter-attack at Maleme airfield is repulsed by the now reinforced paratroopers.
1941: Royal Navy sinks several small German troop boats, helping to thwart the sea borne invasion of Crete. The Luftwaffe sinks the British Destroyer Juno and damages the Cruiser Ajax, southwest of Crete.
Shell Aviation Fuels Ad - May 1944
1942: Hitler postpones the invasion of Malta indefinitely.
1942: Japan allows International Red Cross representatives to visit British prisoners.
Brenda Marshall
1943: The Luftwaffe carries out a raid by FW-190 fighter bombers against Malta.
1944: An accidental explosion on board an LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor sinks 6 LST's killing 163 and injuring 396.
Brenda Marshall
1945: The British Second Army arrest Himmler (in disguise) at Bremervorde.
1945: The Japanese begin the evacuation of Shuri, on Okinawa. Their losses so far are estimated at 48,000 killed out of a garrison of 85,000.
Brenda Marshall
*Brenda Marshall (Ardis Ankerson) was born on Wednesday, September 29, 1915 in in Negros, Philippines. Marshall made her first film appearance in the 1939 "Espionage Agent".
The following year she did her best work opposite Errol Flynn, playing the leading lady to in "The Sea Hawk" (1940) and then a year later again with Flynn in "Footsteps in the Dark" (1941). She married the actor William Holden in 1941 and her own career quickly declined. She starred then opposite James Cagney in the 1942 film, "Captains of the Clouds".
Other films she appeared in are "Singapore Woman" (1941), "You Can't Escape Forever" (1942), "Whispering Smith" (1948), "The Iroquois Trail" (1950).
Brenda Marshall
"The Constant Nymph" (1943) was a popular success but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more inconsequential films. Among these she played scientist Nora Goodrich in the grade-B 1946 cult classic "Strange Impersonation".
After several separations, Marshall and Holden were divorced in 1971. Brenda Marshall died from throat cancer in Palm Springs, California, on July 30, 1992 at age 76.
TRIVIA:
Height: 5' 3" (160 cm) - dark eyes and black hair.
Mother of Virginia Holden, by her first marriage to Richard Gaines. Virginia was adopted by step-father William Holden. Marshall & Holden had two sons - Scott Holden (born Nov 17, 1943) and Peter West Holden (born May 2, 1946). From 1941 through 1973, Brenda Marshall was married to actor William Holden, a curious union that evidently soured early on (Holden's friends blamed Marshall, and vice versa), and was distinguished by extended separations and numerous extracurricular romances.
Mobilgas Ad - May 1945
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Morning all. 67F under cloudy skies. Very humid, scattered rain again possible today. High of 75F.
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Oldsmobile Ad - May 1942
1940: 19th Panzer Korps (Guderian) completes its advance to the Channel coast by capturing Abbeville and Noyelles, thus separating the British Expeditionary Force, French 1st Army and the Belgian Army from the rest of the French forces to the south of the river Somme. German reinforcements pour into this split between the allied troops in northern France.
1940: First gathering of small craft for Dunkirk.
*Jean Parker
1941: Prime Minister says he is still not prepared to make a statement on Hess.
1941: Germany invades Crete by air. After initial air attacks by dive-bombers of the VIII Flieger Korps, German paratroops of the 7th Flieger Division carried in 490 Ju-52 transports of XI Fliegerkorps, land at Maleme, Canea, Retimo and Heraklion airfields. They suffer very heavy losses as the British and Commonwealth troops put up fierce resistance and by nightfall have only secured Maleme airfield, although it still remains under fire from the British. However, the capture of Maleme allows the Germans to begin sending reinforcements by sea during the night.
Jean Parker
1941: Churchill announces the end of Abyssinian campaign as the Duke of Aosta signs the formal Italian surrender. The British took just 94 days to win the East African campaign.
1941: The Royal Navy Minesweeper Widnes is sunk by Luftwaffe planes near Suda Bay in Crete.
Jean Parker
1942: Mr. Justice Singleton's report is published. This concluded that GEE was disappointing, but that more accurate bombing might result when a new aid, H2S, being developed, came in to service. provided that greater accuracy could be achieved, then bombing could prove a 'turning-point', but only after sustained effort.
1942: The Crimea is finally cleared of the Red Army. 170,000 Russians taken prisoner. Manstein's gaze now turns towards Sevastopol.
Jean Parker
1942: Japan completes the conquest of Burma. The rearguards of the 1st Burma Corps cross the border from Burma into India. Once this is complete, the 1st Burma Corps is disbanded.
Buick Ad - May 1943
1942: Admiral Yamamoto issues his orders for Operation 'Mi'. 2nd Carrier Striking Force under Admiral Hosogaya (2 small aircraft carriers, 2 cruisers and 3 destroyers) was to mount an air-strike on Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians on the 3rd June, this was designed to decoy part of the American force northwards. If this happened then they would be met by a Guard Force of 4 battleships, 2 cruisers and 12 destroyers, which would position themselves between Pearl Harbor and the Aleutians. Then on the 5th June, the transports carrying the Japanese assault force would land on Attu and Kiska Islands on the 5th June. Meanwhile the 1st Carrier Striking Force under Admiral Nagumo, which included the Carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, plus 2 battleships, 2 cruisers and 11 destroyers, would sail from Japan for Midway on the 4th June. Following this would be Transport Force which was commanded by Admiral Kondo with the invasion troops, additionally protected by 3 cruisers from Guam. Finally the Main Support force, commanded by Admiral Yamamoto onboard the super battleship Yamato and including a further 3 battleships, 4 cruisers and escorting destroyers would be ready to move up to engage the American Fleet if required. In order to be sure of the position of the American Fleet, 3 cordons of submarines were positioned north and west of Hawaii and 2 flying boats were stationed at French Frigate Shoal, about 500 miles north-west of Hawaii.
Jean Parker
1943: The U.S. Tenth Fleet is formed for anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic.
1943: The Chinese launch a counter offensive on Yangtze River.
Jean Parker
1944: A record 5,000 bombers raid 12 railway targets and nine airfields in northern France and Belgium.
1944: The first orders from Eisenhower are broadcast to European underground armies.
1944: The U.S. Fifth Army captures Gaeta to the South of Rome.
Jean Parker
*Jean Parker was born Lois Mae Green on August 11, 1915 in Deer Lodge, Montana, she appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, after she saw a poster featuring Parker portraying Father Time. She attended Pasadena schools and graduated from John Muir High School. Her original aspirations were in the fine arts and illustration.
She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original "Little Women" (1933), among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's "Lady for a Day" (1933) and "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933); "Sequoia" (1934); "The Ghost Goes West" (1935), opposite Robert Donat; and "Rasputin and the Empress" (1932), with fellow players, the Barrymore siblings (John, Ethel, and Lionel) in the only movie they all made together. In 1939, she starred opposite Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in RKO's "The Flying Deuces" (1939).
Parker stayed active in film throughout the 1940s, playing opposite Lon Chaney in "Dead Man's Eyes" (1944), and a variety of other films. Parker managed her own airport and flying service with then-husband Doug Dawson in Palm Springs, California until shortly after the start of World War II. During the war, she toured many of the veteran hospitals throughout the U.S. and performed on radio. In the 1950s, Parker co-starred opposite Edward G. Robinson in "Black Tuesday" (1954); had a small but effective role in "The Gunfighter" (1950) which starred Gregory Peck and appeared with Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury in the western "Lawless Street" (1955). Her last film appearance was "Apache Uprising" (1966), directed by A. C. Lyles.
Parker also appeared on Broadway. In 1949, she replaced Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday" on Broadway and enjoyed a successful run in this classic. Parker also appeared on Broadway opposite Bert Lahr in the play "Burlesque", did summer stock in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was on tour in the play "Candlelight and Loco", and performed on stage in other professional productions.
Jean Parker
In 1950, she married Robert Lowery, who had played Batman in 1949. In 1952, Parker gave birth to a son, Robert Lowery Hanks, later an executive with the city of Los Angeles. In 1954, Parker played the role of Cattle Kate Watson of Wyoming in an episode of the syndicated television series "Stories of the Century", the first western program to win an Emmy Award. The series starred and was narrated by Jim Davis.
Later in life, Parker continued a successful stint on the West Coast theatre circuit and worked as an acting coach. She spent her final years in the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where she died of a stroke on November 30, 2005, at the age of ninety.
TRIVIA:
Measurements: 33B-24-34
Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m)
Pontiac Ad - May 1944
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Thanks boys!
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Morning all. 64F under cloudy skies. Humid today, some scattered storms possible this afternoon. Warmer with a high of 75F.
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
You are to send me expensive presents,
Happy Birthday to me!
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Nash - Kelvinator Ad - May 1944
1940: General Gamelin is replaced by Maxime Weygand as Chief of the French General Staff and C-in-C of all theatres of operations. Marshal Henri Petain, the hero of the First World War, is appointed as Deputy Prime Minister. German troops of 20th Panzer Korps (Reinhardt) capture St. Quentin.
1940: The rapid German advance now poses a threat to the remaining RAF aircraft in Belgium. Evacuation of the remaining squadrons is carried out over the next two days, and fighter operations over the battlefield are carried out by Hurricanes and Spitfires based in southern England.
*Vivian Blaine
1941: Vichy France announces release and repatriation of 100,000 French POWs.
1941: In order to save life's and aircraft in the face of total Luftwaffe supremacy, the RAF evacuates all its aircraft and personnel from Crete to Egypt.
Vivian Blaine
1941: The British capture Fallujah in Iraq after fierce fighting. They also bomb Baghdad airport.
1941: Egyptian liner Zamzam reported sunk by Germans in the South Atlantic, passenger list included over 200 Americans.
Vivian Blaine
1942: The German 6th Army launches an offensive to the North of the Russian salient in order to link hands with Kleist's Panzers who have ripped a 50 mile gap through the Red Army's flank. With the Germans cutting off the Russian Barvenkovo offensive from their rear, the Russian cancel their offensive, do a fast U-turn and try to fight their way out of the pocket and back to safety. Unfortunately, the attack is badly organized and uncoordinated.
1942: A busy day for Soviet partisans, who blast railway tracks between Bryansk and Roslavl at five points. Hungarian security troops move in to fight the partisans and do so by killing everyone in the local villages. An irritated Josef Goebbels diaries "In consequence, we can hardly get any agricultural work done in such regions.
1943: In an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the war against Japan.
Vivian Blaine
1944: Eden tells the House of Commons that 47 RAF officers were shot while 'escaping' from Stalag Luft III.
1944: British troops capture Aquino airfield in the Liri valley, to the South East of Rome.
1944: Wake is Island secured, during which 800 Japanese are killed.
Vivian Blaine
*Born Vivian Stapleton on November 21, 1921 in Newark, New Jersey, the cherry-blonde-haired Blaine appeared on local stages as early as 1934 and was a touring singer with dance bands starting in 1937. In 1942, her agent and soon-to-be husband Manny Franks signed her to a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, and she relocated to Hollywood, sharing top billing with Laurel and Hardy in "Jitterbugs" (1943) and starring in "Greenwich Village" (1944), "Nob Hill" (1945), and "State Fair" (1945), among other films.
Following her Fox years, Blaine returned to the stage, making her Broadway debut in the Frank Loesser musical "Guys and Dolls" in 1950. Her character Adelaide has been engaged to inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit for 14 years, a condition which, according to her song "Adelaide's Lament", can foster physical illness as well as chronic heartbreak. After the show's 1200-performance run on Broadway, in which she starred opposite Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit and Robert Alda as fellow gambler Sky Masterson, she reprised the role in London's "West End" in 1953, and then on film in 1955, with Frank Sinatra playing Nathan and Marlon Brando in Sky's role.
Blaine also appeared on the Broadway stage in "A Hatful of Rain", "Say", "Darling", "Enter Laughing", "Company", and "Zorba", as well as participating in the touring companies of such musicals as "Gypsy". As she reached age 50, her television career took off, with guest roles on shows like "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat". On the 25th annual Tony Awards in 1971, she appeared as a guest performer and sang "Adelaide's Lament" from "Guys and Dolls", providing a visual recording of the performance for posterity.
Vivian Blaine
Blaine in her later years was managed by Rob Cipriano and L'Etoile Talent Agencies in New York City. Cipriano spent the early 1980s developing projects for Blaine including "Puppy Love" a TV sitcom with Jake LaMotta and Pat Cooper. She always shared in meeting that working with Cipriano reminded her working with her first husband Manny Franks.
Blaine's first marriage, to Franks, lasted from 1945 to 1956. She then married Milton Rackmil, president of Universal Studios and Decca Records, in 1959, and recorded several albums prior to their 1961 divorce. In 1973, Blaine married Stuart Clark. In 1983 she became the first celebrity to make public service announcements for AIDS-related causes. She made numerous appearances in support of the then fledgling AIDS-Project Los Angeles (APLA) and recorded her cabaret act which donated its royalties to the new group; this included the last recordings of her songs from "Guys and Dolls". She died of congestive heart failure on December 9, 1995 at age 74 in New York City, New York.
Nash - Kelvinator Ad - May 1944
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12 hours ago, cobraj said:
Evening all, Monday down, mucking through my new software tool to do my job. It is over complicated and I am bad at it. Which is good, because last week I was really bad! So being bad is better
You're a bad man Jay!
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Morning all. 60F under cloudy skies. Plan on a cloudy day with scattered showers moving through. By the time they are done, much of the area will receive a quarter to half inch of rainfall. High today of 64F.
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Western Electric Ad - May 1944
1940: Germans take Antwerp, Belgium's second city. Allied forces are seriously split as German tanks of 19th Panzer Korps (Guderian) reach Peronne and Rommel's 7th Panzer Division reaches Cambrai during their rapid advance toward the Channel coast. Amiens is occupied. Regions ceded to Belgium in Treaty of Versailles (1919) re-incorporated into Germany.
1941: British air raids on Germany continue.
*Lina Romay
1941: Italy annexes the Yugoslavian territory of Dalmatia.
1941: General Dentz tells the French Army in Syria to "match force with force". The 5th Indian Division captures the Italian fortress of Amba Alagi after 18 days of fighting. The British column from Palestine (Habforce), arrives at Habbaniyah and relieves its garrison.
Lina Romay - YANK Magazine Pinup Girl - May 18, 1945
1942: New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.
1942: The RAF launches a major attack against Mannheim.
Lina Romay
1942: The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm attacks and hits the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen off Norway, but she makes it back to Kiel.
1942: Despite increasing losses, Churchill remains determined to continue the Artic convoys to Russia.
Lina Romay
1942: German forces finally halt the Russian summer offensive just short of Kharkov and let loose Group von Kleist's with a strength of 15 Divisions (1st Panzer Army and 17th Army), of which two are Panzer and one Motorized. The Germans aim for Izyum to the South of Kharkov in order to pinch off the Russian salient. The Germans attack with their usual skill, technology, and ferocity and drive through the Russian defenses. The Germans have a 4.4-1 edge in tanks, 1.7-1 edge in artillery, and 1.3-1 edge in infantry on the battlefield. Russian co-ordination is poor and the Germans quickly gain local air superiority. Russian officers lack adequate combat experience to handle the fast pace of the German blitzkrieg, and their divisions literally come apart.
1942: The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.
Lina Romay
1943: The Japanese launch a new offensive along the Yangtze river, 250 miles north east of the Nationalist capital of Chunking.
1944: Polish troops finally capture the town of Cassino.
Lina Romay
*Maria Elena "Lina" Romay was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born on January 16, 1922 to Porfirio Romay, the attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. She performed for a time with Xavier Cugat. Latin-American singer/actress Lina Romay was active in films from 1942 to 1952. She came to Hollywood under contract to Columbia, then worked briefly at MGM and RKO. In 1949, she began a three-year run as featured vocalist on the TV series "Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue". She can be seen in such stellar movies as "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942) starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth and "Bathing Beauty" (1944) starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton. She attracted the attention of servicemen worldwide as a stunning Latin beauty and appeared in "Yank" Magazine as a pinup girl or cover girl in other publications. She also appeared in several Soundies of the era, no doubt having been selected because of her exceptional singing voice and uncommon good looks. Being of Mexican heritage, and having been born in the USA, Miss Romay could sing equally as well in both English and Spanish and her roles she played were both as Spanish senoritas to non-ethnic Anglo roles. She appears with Xavier Cugat in the WW2 feature "Stage Door Canteen", where she can be seen singing and even dancing a bit with Cugat, with the delightful song "A Bombshell From Brooklyn". Lina reminds some of enchanting Carmen Miranda, especially in her excellence in singing and stage presence as seen in "The Heat's On" (1943). She is top notch in this picture, as evidenced by her fabulous singing and hand gestures...yes, hand gestures. I don't know if my fellow fans have noticed, but she is perfectly poised a la Miranda while delivering her songs and perfectly gestures with her hands. It's very poetic, feminine and artistic, so if you are lucky enough to see this movie, you'll see what I mean. Several movies later, Lina proves herself a talented actress by appearing in a notable dramatic role in the little gem "Adventure" (1945) with Clark Gable, where she plays Gable's first love interest in the picture (the "girl in a distant port), but second-fiddle to Greer Garson in the picture which boasted the byline "Gables Back and Garson's Got Him". Lina's performance was very convincing and quite important in the movie. She even gets to sing some wonderful Spanish-language songs. Although it was a minor part in the picture, she was no doubt noticed by her growing legion of fans and moviegoers just discovering her charms and talents. Gable's really lucky that he gets to play brief love scenes with Lina, who's simply stunning on the silver screen. Lina nearly steals the show in her next project "Love Laughs at Andy Hardy" (1946), playing Polly Benedict's perky cousin. She charms everybody with a sexy and spirited song and dance near the opening scenes, as her character enchants the townsfolk including Judge Hardy and his family. However, our hero Andy, seems bored and daydreaming of his girl, even while the stunning Lina does the rumba for him. Her infectious smile and cheery personality truly light up the screen. It's an important role for Lina which is still pleasing audiences today. Lina Romay's screen credits should not be confused with those of the same-named actress/director of the 1970s and 1980s.
Lina marries Dr. Jay W. Gould III, descendant of the railroad financier, at the Westwood Lutheran Church in a ceremony attended only by members of their families. He's 33; she's 34. Gould's the son of Jay and Anne Gould and was married twice before, in 1944 to Jennifer Beryl Bruce, daughter of actor Nigel Bruce, and in 1948 to socialite Blair Roemer Stevens. He has a 6-year-old boy from his marriage to Bruce. On January 13, 1954, her daughter Anne Elena is born early in St. John's Hospital in Los Angeles. On June 8 1956, her daughter Gloria D. is born in Los Angeles. And on April 15, 1961 her son, Jay IV, is born in Los Angeles. Her husband, Dr. Jay W. Gould III dies at age 67 in California. Lina Romay died of natural causes at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California on Dec. 17, 2010. She was 91.
Swift & Company Ad - May 1944
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Morning all. 58F with light rain. Partly cloudy. High of 65F. Winds out of the SW at 10 to 20 mph.
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Vega Aircraft Corporation Ad - May 1943
1940: Biggest RAF attack on Germany to date as the oil tanks at Bremen and Hamburg are blown up. British claim 1,000 German aircraft lost in a single week.
1940: Brussels, Louvain and Malines in central Belgium all occupied by troops of the 6th Army. Germans attack further into N-E France; General Gamelin, French Commander-in-Chief, gives allied troops 'conquer or die' order. French prime minister Pierre Laval is replaced by Paul Reynaud who forms a new government. Charles de Gaulle's newly raised 4th Armoured division launches a counter-attack near Laon, which is easily repulsed by the Germans.
1940: Twelve Blenheims attack enemy tanks and troops near Gembloux. Ten are shot down by fighters and one by ground fire.
Gale Robbins
1941: The German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen leave Gotenhafen in the Baltic to begin operations against British convoys in the Atlantic (Operation Rheinübung).
1941: The Italian Army joins its forces in Amba Alagi, but at May 17 they collapse and surrender. The British Army captures 230,000 prisoners.
Cleo Moore
1942: Air Marshal Harris is given permission by Churchill for a raid on Germany by 1000 bombers. This was in spite of the fact that the RAF's operational strength at this time was only 500 aircraft. However, it was believed that by enlisting RAF Coastal Command and the RAF's training squadron's, then the magical 1000 bombers could be found. Harris believed that the only way to get a commitment for strong bomber force, was to demonstrate what could be done with one. He planned to launch operation 'Millenium', before the end of the month.
1942: The Russians continue to evacuate their forces across the Kerch Straits, leaving behind vast amounts of artillery and heavy equipment, which the Germans then turn upon the besieged fort of Sevastopol.
Motorola Radio Ad - April 1944
1943: The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid involving 89 aircraft against Cardiff in Wales.
1943: The Germans launch a fifth offensive to destroy Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.
Adele Mara
1944: Kesselring orders the evacuation of Cassino. The French breakthrough is now 25 miles deep.
1944: Merrill's 'Marauders' take Myitkyina airfield after a three-week, 100-mile, Jungle march.
Renee Randall
1944: U.S. troops land on Wake Island and the northern coast of New Guinea, 125 miles to the West of Hollandia.
Philco Corporation Ad - May 1944
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Morning all. 64F under partly cloudy skies. Plan on a mainly dry Sunday though there will be plenty of clouds around. Occasional breaks in those clouds should allow temperatures to climb to the lower 70s for highs over much of the area. Tonight, plan on a few more showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High of 72F.
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Buick Ad - May 1943
1940: Germans try to enlarge Sedan pocket. British withdraw from Louvain, west of Brussels as troops of the German 6th Army break through the Allied Dyle line in Belgium. Belgian government leaves Brussels for Ostend.
1940: The Red Army occupies Latvia and Estonia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported to NKVD prison camps around the Soviet Union.
1940: Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war.
*Vera Miles
1941: With a raid by 111 German aircraft on Birmingham, the Night Blitz campaign against England comes to an end. Most Luftwaffe bomber formations in France and Belgium are being transferred to airfields in eastern Germany and occupied Poland. The RAF launch a night raid on Cologne.
1941: The Afrika Korps counter-attack against the British and retake Sollum and Capuzzo, although the Halfaya Pass remains in British hands. Berlin orders Rommel to leave Tobruk to the Italians and to concentrate the Afrika Korps near the Egyptian border. The Italian forces under the Duke of Aosta surrender to British forces at Amba Alagi in Abyssinia.
1941: Last British reinforcements arrive in Crete.
Vera Miles
1942: Kerch is captured by German troops, forcing the Russians to evacuate their troops across the straits in extremely difficult conditions and under heavy fire. For five days, Russian ships shuttle back and forth, finally pulling out 86,000 men, including 23,000 wounded.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Ad - May 1943
1943: The Warsaw ghetto is finally cleared of Jews by the German police and security units.
1943: Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the 'Dambusters' night attack by 19 aircraft against the Ruhr dams, during which 'bouncing bombs' breach the Mohne and Eder Dams causing severe flooding and loss of civilian life in the Ruhr valley below them, but doing little damage to the industrial installations. Gibson is later awarded the Victoria Cross.
Vera Miles
1944: Aircraft of RAF Coastal Command sink 5 U-boats off the Norwegian coast.
1944: The first Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process.
1944: The 17th Indian Division counter-attacks South of Imphal.
Vera Miles
1945: British troops land on Alderney, taking 3,200 Germans prisoner.
1945: U-234 surrenders at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. On 16th April 1945 she had departed Norway and was enroute to Japan with an extremely important cargo, which included technical drawings, an Me-262 jet fighter in crates, 550 kg of U-238 uranium ore for atom bomb development, several high ranking German technological experts, and 2 Japanese officers. When Kptlt. Fehler heard of the cease-fire orders on 4 May 1945, he decides to surrender to the Americans, rather than the Canadians, being in a relatively equal position to do either. Still at war with the US, the Japanese officers take their own lives rather than surrender.
1945: Heavy fighting continues on Okinawa, as the U.S. 77th Division takes 'Chocolate Drop Hill'.
Vera Miles
*Born Vera June Ralston on August 23, 1929 in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television shows. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western "The Searchers" (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly," paired her with the great Henry Fonda in "The Wrong Man." (1956). Hitchcock had Miles in mind to star in a dual role opposite James Stewart in "Vertigo" (1958), but what was envisioned as the actress' star-making vehicle instead became a triumph for Kim Novak when Miles' pregnancy and Hitchcock's subsequent production delays cost her the plum assignment. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece "Psycho" (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite James Stewart and John Wayne in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), She also starred in such films as "Beau James" (1957) opposite Bob Hope, "The FBI Story" (1959) opposite James Stewart, "Back Street" (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and "Sergeant Ryker" (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Twilight Zone,". "The Outer Limits," "The Fugitive," "My Three Sons," "Bonanza," "Columbo," and "Murder She Wrote." In 1983, she reprised her role as Lila Crane in the film sequel "Psycho II", starring Anthony Perkins. Although too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.
Vera Miles
TRIVIA:
Height
5' 3 3/4" (1.62 m)
Placed third in the Miss America contest in 1948.
By sheer coincidence, all three of Vera's handsome, strapping ex-husbands died within a short time span. Her third husband, Keith Larsen died on December 13, 2006; first husband/stuntman and small part actor Bob Miles died on April 12, 2007; and bodybuilder second husband actor Gordon Scott, who played Tarzan in films, died on April 30, 2007.
In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), John Wayne pursued Miss Miles, but lost her to James Stewart. Six years later, his luck improved. Miles played Wayne's wife in "Hellfighters" (1968) and "The Green Berets" (1968), though her scenes in the latter were left on the cutting room floor.
Daughters with Bob Miles: Debra Miles born in 1950 and Kelley Miles born in 1952. Son with Gordon Scott: Michael Scott born 1957. Son with Keith Larsen: Eric Larsen born April 30, 1961 in Burbank, California.
Miles lives in Palm Desert, California and does not grant interviews or make public appearances, although she is well known for corresponding with her fanbase.
United States Rubber Company Ad - May 1944
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Morning all (except Fick). 52F under cloudy skies. Chances for scattered rain showers with a rumble of thunder mixed in here or there continue today along a weak frontal boundary. The rain will continue to be hit or miss with plenty of dry time as well through the day. High of 64F.
I anticipate the consumption of mass quantities if alcoholic beverages soon. It is written in the stars. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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Pontiac Ad - May 1943
1940: Official announcement that British weekly butter ration will be reduced from 8oz to 4oz per head.
1940: The German XX.Panzerkorps (Hoth) repels a counter-attack by French armored forces, destroying 125 out of 175 tanks. An attack by 6th Army (von Reichenau) against the Dyle line in Belgium is repulsed.
1940: After the fall of Rotterdam the Dutch Army surrenders (10,000 casualties).
*Jinx Falkenburg - Yank, the Army Weekly - April 27, 1945
1940: The German 20th Panzer Korps (Hoth) repels a counter-attack by French armored forces, destroying 125 out of 175 tanks. An attack by 6th Army (von Reichenau) against the Dyle line in Belgium is repulsed.
1940: In Paris, panic breaks out over reports of a German breakthrough at Sedan with thousands of civilians fleeing the city for the west and south of the country, clogging the roads for Allied military traffic which is attacked by Luftwaffe bombers and fighter bombers.
1940: RAF Bomber Command (Peirse) begins a strategic air offensive against targets inside Germany by attacking industrial installations in the Ruhr, but with minimal effect.
Jinx Falkenburg
1941: Roosevelt tells Vichy France to 'choose between Germany and US'.
1941: RAF night raids on Hanover, Berlin, Hamburg and Cuxhaven.
1941: Ernie Bevin says that he would not negotiate with 'murderer' Hess. It's reported that the Dame of Sark has been deported to a German concentration camp as a reprisal for civil disobedience.
Jinx Falkenburg
1941: Announced that British losses in France and Norway were 13,250 killed and approximately 41,000 taken prisoner out of 437,000 men engaged.
1941: The Luftwaffe begin preparatory attacks against Crete.
Pontiac Ad - May 1943
1941: The first British jet-powered aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, takes to the air at RAF Cranwell on its maiden flight. This was not the first jet-powered aircraft to fly, however; that honor fell to the German-built Heinkel He 178 in August 1939.
1941: The British Army under Auchinleck, begins an offensive against the Afrika Korps and manage to recapture Halfaya Pass, Sollum and Capuzzo.
Jinx Falkenburg
1942: Gasoline rationing goes into effect in the Eastern United States.
1942: The Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Trinidad was attacked by more than twenty Ju-88 bombers as she was returning home after being damaged while escorting Convoy PQ-13 in March 1942. All attacks missed, except for one bomb that struck near the previous damage caused by one of her own torpedoes during a previous engagement, starting a serious fire. Sixty-three men were lost, including twenty survivors from HMS Edinburgh which had been sunk two weeks earlier. The decision was taken to scuttle her and she was torpedoed by HMS Matchless and sank in the Arctic Ocean, north of North Cape.
1942: British forces retreating from Burma reach the Indian frontier. General Stilwell crosses the border in to Assam in India.
Jinx Falkenburg
1943: Stalin announces the dissolution of the Komintern, the Communist International working for world revolution.
1944: Beginning of deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz.
1944: The Germans begin a withdrawal from the Gustav Line to new positions, called the Adolf Hitler or Dora Line, some 30 miles to the South of Rome.
1944: A Japanese attack on Hunter's Hill, North of Kohima is repulsed.
Jinx Falkenburg
1945: The Axis Croation forces that surrendered to British troops in Austria are handed over to Tito's partisans who without delay proceed to massacre them, killing a total of 110,000, including women and children.
1945: The U.S. Tenth Army is now within 2,000 yds of Naha docks.
Jinx Falkenburg
*Eugenia Lincoln Falkenburg was born on January 21, 1919 in Barcelona, she was raised in Chile. Her family moved to the United States where she became a top model. Her brother Bob Falkenburg was the 1948 Wimbledon singles champion. She was nicknamed Jinx by her mother. As a teenager, she became a top fashion model who appeared on numerous magazine covers, and was the first Miss Rheingold (model for Rheingold Beer), but was chosen by the brewery rather than being voted by the public, as in later years.
The young beauty got her start in Spanish films before her stateside career took off in the late '30s. Thanks in no small part to a memorable cover shot on a 1937 issue of American Magazine, Falkenburg's career truly took hold with the release of the 1941 musical comedy "Two Latins From Manhattan". An easygoing bit of entertainment that helped to ease the public's wartime woes, the film later spawned an equally popular sequel, "Two Senoritas From Chicago" (1943). In the time between her most popular films, Falkenburg also appeared in such efforts as "Sing for Your Supper" (1941) and "Lucky Legs" (1942). Making the acquaintance of Tex McCray when he interviewed her for her role in the Broadway musical "Hold on to Your Hats", the duo married in 1945 and teamed for the breakthrough hit "Meet Tex and Jinx" the following year. An innovative program, it sometimes broadcast from New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in order to speak with celebrities as they stopped at the front desk to pick up their room keys. Moving to the small screen with NBC's "At Home" (and later the "Swift Home Service Club"), the pair interviewed celebrities from the comforts of their own home.
Jinx Falkenburg
Falkenburg appeared in over 25 movies and numerous television programs. During the war, she spent considerable time entertaining Allied troops, and was a popular pin-up model. In 1945 received the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal for her work. She, along with her husband Tex McCrary, was one of the early innovators in the talk show genre in the 1940s.
In addition to having a successful broadcasting career, Miss Falkenburg was long active in raising money for the Republican Party and helped her husband when he worked to persuade Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for the presidency in 1952.
She died of natural causes on August 27, 2003 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, a Long Island hospital of which she and her husband were among the founders, said her son Kevin McCrary. She and Mr. McCrary had lived apart for many years but remained friends. He died on July 29, 2003, just 29 days before Jinx passed away.
TRIVIA:
Jinx Falkenburg was one of the highest-paid cover girls in the United States during the Second World War.
While on a modeling trip to Honolulu she fell through the roof of a hotel and during hospital treatment for her injuries she met Al Jolson, who was convalescing. Jolson offered her the part of a cowgirl in his Broadway show Hold on to Your Hats (1940). His wife Ruby Keeler had been set to co-star, but his affair with Falkenburg further weakened the already crumbling marriage, and Keeler left the show during its tryout tour.
Two sons with Tex McCrary: John Reagan McCrary III and Kevin Jock McCrary.
Sergeants Dog Medicines Ad - May 1944
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16 hours ago, Stans said:
Yea! The great president Joe Hiden says fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks. He said we have earned the right to go maskless! Let's run down to the Green Vinyl Seating Lounge, grab all the beer, liquor, and wine, bring it back to CSim HQ and have a bender and...
Sounds like a plan to me! I'm a little nervous about going into the Green Vinyl Seating Lounge though. Do we have protection? Like backwards facing Chastity Belts?
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Cripes. The New World Oder being heard from this early in the morning.
Idiots. Well it is 54F under partly cloudy skies. Clouds will start building through the day which may lead to an isolated shower in a few locations very late this afternoon. If you happen to get under one, it might be enough to wet the pavement and that would be it. Overnight, a better chance of rain exists, but even that looks very light and scattered at this point. High today of 66F.
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Tide Water Associated Ad - May 1944
1940: The British Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden calls for volunteers to form the Local defense Volunteers force (LDV).
1940: Admiralty order requires all owners of large boats to send in particulars within two weeks.
1940: German forces break through the French front at Sedan.
Anne Gwynne
1940: British and French aircraft are unsuccessful in destroying the German-built bridges across the Meuse and 50 bombers are shot down by AA fire.
1940: 60 Luftwaffe He-111 bombers not having received the countermanding order attack besieged Rotterdam, devastating the center of the city.
1940: Germans take Rotterdam as the Dutch government arrives in London.
Jeff Donnell
1941: Admiral Darlan reports back to Vichy after meeting Hitler and von Ribbentrop. Vichy Cabinet approves German concessions and French counter-concessions unanimously.
1941: British aircraft launch attacks against airfields in Syria which have been put at axis disposal by the Vichy French authorities.
Veronica Lake
1941: 3,600 Jews arrested in Paris.
1941: Large Royal Navy and Royal Air Force reinforcements arrive in Singapore.
Julie Reding
1942: The U.S. Congress establishes The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), under the direction of Oveta Culp Hobby, editor of the Houston Post.
1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India.
Marilyn Johnson
1943: The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft, destroying 3 U-boats.
1943: SS day is celebrated in Oslo.
1944: French troops in Italy break through the Gustav Line.
Mona Knox
1945: U-858 surrenders off Delaware, USA, becoming the first German warship to surrender to U.S. forces after the war ends.
1945: Vienna radio announces the re-establishment of the Austrian Republic. The Anschluss with Germany is declared null and void. British troops occupy the German island of Heligoland in the North Sea.
Bridget Carr
1945: The Norwegian resistance movement (Milorg) is officially disbanded.
1945: USAAF B29's firebomb Nagoya, the heaviest raid on the Japanese homeland so far, with 3,500 tons of bombs being dropped, which destroys the Mitsubishi works.
How to Ditch a B-17 - Life Magazine- May 1944
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23 hours ago, Donster said:
Morning all. 44F under clear skies. Sunny today with a light SW wind and a high of 62F. Road crew has just arrived to fix all the potholes and cracks in our street, then next week they will put down the overcoating on the driveways and street. I live on a private street, so this is a job we have to pay for.
Seems our maintenance guy was wrong on the overcoating (seal coat). That won't get done until 30-45 days after the asphalt repairs, so it has time to cure.
Idiots. Well it is 54F under partly cloudy skies. Clouds will start building through the day which may lead to an isolated shower in a few locations very late this afternoon. If you happen to get under one, it might be enough to wet the pavement and that would be it. Overnight, a better chance of rain exists, but even that looks very light and scattered at this point. High today of 66F.
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That and throw in the shortage of microchips.