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Morning ya Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, wishin' ye were all wee Irish Lads and Lassies on this St. Patrick's Day! If'in you drink enough green beer and Irish Whiskey today you to can become a true Irishman! Afters, you're wee mum will sing you this touchin' Irish lullaby... Over in Killarney, Many years ago, Me mither sang a song to me In tones so sweet and low. Just a simple little ditty, In her good ould Irish way, And I'd give the world if she could sing That song to me this day. Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Hush, now don't you cry! Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish lullaby. Oft, in dreams I wander To that cot again, I feel her arms a huggin' me As when she held me then. And I hear her voice a humin' To me as in days or yore, When she used to rock me fast asleep Outside the cabin door. Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Hush, now don't you cry! Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish lullaby.

1941: The 11th African Division captures Jijiga in central Abyssinia, having advanced 744 miles up the Italian built Strada Imperiale in just seventeen days. 1942: The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec begins. *Martha Vickers 1942: General MacArthur arrives in Australia from the Philippines. 1943: Bulgaria states opposition to deportation of its Jews. Martha Vickers 1943: The Japanese attack British positions in Arakan, western Burma. 1944: The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna. Martha Vickers 1944: New Zealand troops take Cassino railway station. Martha Vickers 1944: The British blow up the Manipur bridge South of Imphal. 1945: The U.S. Third Army takes Koblenz. The Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, seized by US troops on the 7th March, suddenly collapses, killing dozens of US Army engineers working to reinforce it. Martha Vickers *Lovely, auburn-haired Martha Vickers (nee Martha MacVicar) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 28, 1925, the daughter of James S. and Frances MacVicar. After attending schools in various states - Florida, Texas and California - she and her family settled on the West Coast. A raving beauty, she broke into the entertainment field as a model for still photographer William Mortenson. This attracted the interest of David O. Selznick and she signed a starlet contract with him, but nothing came of it. Universal took over her contract where she was groomed in inauspicious bit parts such as her corpse/victim in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943), and in such low-level entries as "Captive Wild Woman" (1943) and "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944). In between assignments, Martha earned WWII pin-up exposure in such magazines as "Yank: The Army Weekly." RKO gave her some higher-level billing chances with "Marine Raiders" (1944) and "The Falcon in Mexico" (1944), but it was Warner Bros. that put her officially on the map. The enticing Martha earned celebrity status and a new stage moniker when she generated some real heat as Lauren Bacall's wild, thumb-sucking sister Carmen in the film noir classic "The Big Sleep" (1946), which also starred Humphrey Bogart, playing the teenage nymphet "bad girl" for all it was worth. This major success quickly led to other "B" roles and not necessarily all "bad girl" parts. Highly appealing as the second femme lead in the pleasant musical "The Time, the Place and the Girl" (1946), Martha looked radiant but was overlooked for bigger things. She continued on and disrupted the proceedings again in the atmospheric film noir "The Man I Love" (1947) with Ida Lupino and finally earned leading lady status in "That Way with Women" (1947) opposite Dane Clark. Very much a part of the Hollywood dating scene, which included actor James Stewart and director Frederick De Cordova, Martha finally married producer A.C. Lyles in March of 1948, but the marriage was over within a couple of months. Post-war films included "Love and Learn" (1947), another film noir piece "Ruthless" (1948), and the melodrama "Bad Boy" (1949), which was Audie Murphy's first starring role. She ended the decade top-lining the "Poverty-Row" drama "Alimony" (1949). Surprisingly, Martha's high-profiled second marriage in 1949 to film star Mickey Rooney (she was his third wife) did not advance her career. In fact, Martha was not seen in films at all during this period. Despite the couple having a son, Teddy Rooney, the next year (1950), Rooney had already hit the nadir of his career and had turned excessively to the bottle. Her marriage to Rooney would be short-lived as well. Martha married a third time in 1954 to Chilean polo player-turned-actor Manuel Rojas, best known for his co-starring role in "The Magnificent Matador" (1955), and she finally returned to the screen in "The Big Bluff" (1955) co-starring with John Bromfield. The momentum, however, was gone and the movie did nothing to generate new interest. She did move, however, into TV and performed effectively in a number of dramatic showcases. She and Rojas had two children, Tina and Tessa. In 1960, Martha did her last filming with the western "Four Fast Guns" (1960) and after guesting on a couple of episodes of the TV series "The Rebel," ended her career. Not much was heard from this sultry beauty until her death from esophageal cancer in 1971 at age 46 in Hollywood, California. Trivia: Height - 5' 3½" Performed under her real name through 1944.

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Wartime Nash Kelvinator Ad 1939: Germany occupies the rest Czechoslovakia. 1940: The Luftwaffe attacks the British Fleets anchorage at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This raid causes the death of a British civilian, the first of the war. **Elaine Shepard 1941: The Kriegsmarine loses two of its most successful U-boat commanders, Kretschmer (U-99) and Schepke (U-100) to British escorts from convoy HX112. 1941: British troops from Aden, land at and capture Berbera in Italian occupied British Somaliland. 1943: Wolfpack 'Raubgraf' attacks convoys HX-229 (37 ships) until the 19th March, sinking 12 ships for 86,326 gross tons damaging 4. Another wolfpack, named 'Stürmer', attacks SC122 and over a period of four days and nights sinking 11 ships (54,740 tons) for the loss of just one U-boat, U-384 (Oblt. von Rosenberg-Gruszinski). Elaine Shepard 1944: Oswald Job, a British subject, is hanged for spying at Pentonville Prison. 1944: The British Eighth Army continues to batter itself against Monte Cassino. 1944: A Japanese advance through Burma isolates the British garrison at Imphal. During the three-month siege, 150,000 men had to rely entirely on air supply for their survival. More than 400 tons of stores had to be flown daily into a heavily guarded valley, with only three squadrons of Spitfires available for air defence and six squadrons of Hurricanes for attack. Elaine Shepard 1944: The 'Chindit' ‘White City’ base at Mawla severs Japanese communications in northern Burma. 1945: The US 8th Air Force launches a massive attack (675 bombers) against the HQ complex of the OKH at Zossen 20 miles south of Berlin, but with minimal effect. 1945: The German Heavy Cruisers Schlesien and Prinz Eugen give supporting fire forces of Heeresgruppe Kurland in their defense of the Kurland pocket. Elaine Shepard 1945: Two fresh Soviet armies of the 3rd Ukrainian Front counter attack the German offensive towards Budapest. 1945: Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist. *1935: Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty. Elaine Shepard **Elaine Shepard was born on April 2, 1913 in Olney, Illinois. She was a Broadway and film actress in the 1930s and '40s. She was also the author of "The Doom Pussy", a semi-fictional account of aviation in the Vietnam War. Shepard's first film appearance was in the 1936 Republic serial "Darkest Africa", in which she played Valerie Tremaine, the heroine of the film. This was followed with a series of leading roles in other minor films. She then had several minor roles in major films, including playing a secretary in "Topper" and uncredited roles in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and the 1946 "Ziegfeld Follies". A more prominent role came in "Seven Days Ashore", a musical in which she plays the principal love interest for the band of sailors on shore leave. Shepard also had some minor appearances on Broadway, including a part in the 1940 Cole Porter musical "Panama Hattie". Shepard abandoned acting and turned to freelance journalism. She is best known in this role for her Vietnam War coverage, which became the basis for her 1967 book "The Doom Pussy", recounting her experiences with aviators in the early part of the war. This book is commonly cited as originating the phrase "the whole nine yards", though it is likely the source is older. Her presence in the press party for a 1959 European tour with President Eisenhower provided the occasion for a libel suit against Dorothy Kilgallen. Kilgallen wrote that a female member of the press on the trip had had an affair with a member of the White House staff; Shepard, however, was widely known to be the only woman on the trip. The suit dragged on for years. Elaine Shepard died on September 6, 1998 (aged 85) in New York City, New York.

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Stans must still be in bed with his dreams. Sunny and may reach 60F today! Have a few Crocus blooming out by the side of the house. All snow kaput except for the mountains left by the plows. Rivers still rising.

And he was "Price", the "German spy" planted in with the prisoners in "Stalag 17", one of the best WWII movies made. He was the younger brother of James Arness, Marshal Matt Dillion from the "Gunsmoke" TV series.

LIFE Magazine Hollywood Pinups - February 1943... 1939: Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia. 1941: Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation announcing the end of compromise with tyranny. YANK Magazine RKO Pictures Starlets 1941: The British 'Northern Force' having concentrated the 4th and 5th Indian Divisions begin their offensive for Italian fortress of Keren in Eritrea. 1942: U-503 is sunk near the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland, by another aircraft from the US squadron, VP-82. Elizabeth Daily 1943: Germans re-capture Kharkov. 1944: The heaviest RAF raid of war is made against Stuttgart, with 3,000 tons dropped from 863 bombers, for the loss of only 36 planes. Betty Reid 1944: The allies pound Cassino, dropping 1,250 tons of bombs dropped and firing 195,969 in 7 and a half hours, but the troops make slow headway. 1944: The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front breaks through German defenses and reaches the Bug river, the starting point in 1941 for Operation 'Barbarossa'. Helen O'Hara 1944: The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division lands on Manus in the Admiralty Islands. 1944: The Japanese begin crossing the Chindwin for an advance against Kohima. Elaine Shepard 1945: Attacks by troops of the US First Army to expand the Remagen bridgehead further, meet with little success. 1945: The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front begins an offensive in the Ratibor area of Upper Silesia. Carole Claire 1945: U.S. troops report slow progress on Luzon in the Philippines. *1935: Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda bans four Berlin newspapers. **1949: Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.

Graves died of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home I guess it's really over for Captain Oveur. Rest in Peace Peter Graves. You were one of the good guys in Hollywood.

I use Thunderbird 3. I think 2 was better. And Hotmail.

Oh shit. Nope. Went to be early. Forgot. Wife didn't either, no surprise there. Screwed out of another hours sleep. Cloudy and windy. 50F today. Won't seem that warm though as the winds are out of the Northwest. I blame the Canadians.

Happy Birthday to my favorite Marine friend! Semper Fi!

Wartime Goodyear Ad 1939: The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia. 1942: US troops arrive in Australia in force. **Karin/Kay Booth 1943: The Germans armored forces recapture Kharkov. 1943: The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. Karin/Kay Booth 1943: The Royal Navy Submarine Thetis, now renamed Thunderbolt is sunk by the Italian corvette Cicogna, off Sicily. 1944: The British are forced to withdraw towards Imphal in Assam, while fighting a bitter rearguard action. Karin/Kay Booth 1945: RAF Bomber Command make its first use of the 22,000lb ‘Grand Slam’ bomb, wrecking the Bielefeld viaduct. 1945: The US 15th Air Force, taking off from Italian airfields, launches a heavy raid (500 bombers) against Regensburg, while the RAF attacks Wuppertal with 400 aircraft. Karin/Kay Booth 1945: The U.S. Third Army crosses the Moselle, Southwest of Koblenz. 1945: German counterattacks to recapture the oilfields near Lake Balaton come to an end. The Red Army cuts all communications between Königsberg and the German forces fighting in the Braunsberg pocket. Karin/Kay Booth 1945: U.S. troops begin mopping up on Iwo Jima and launch heavy attacks in the North of the island. *1936: Adolf Hitler tells a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself. Karin/Kay Booth **Karin Booth was born June Francis Hoffman on the 19th of June, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Under the name of June Francis, she becomes a Hollywood photographers model, then in April 1941 is signed by Paramount. They change her name to Katharine Booth. She will go into the acting school at the studio. Moving to MGM in 1942, she changed her screen name to Karin Booth and was given the standard studio "star" build-up. On April 30th, 1942 is among the show people of the "Hollywood Victory Caravan"(1) hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House, Washington, D.C. The others are Oliver Hardy, Joan Blondell, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Boyer, Rise Stevens, Desi Arnaz, Frank McHugh, Matt Brooks, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Juanita Stark, Alma Carroll, Merle Oberon, Eleanor Powell, Arleen Whelan, Marie McDonald, Fay McKenzie, Frances Gifford, Frances Langford, Elyse Knox, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Bob Hope, Joan Bennett, Bert Lahr, Jack Rose, Stan Laurel, Jerry Colonna, and Groucho Marx. In April 1948 Booth announces plans to marry Allan P. Carlisle. Carlisle is one of three sons of socially prominent New Yorker Jay F. Carlisle, head of Wall Street brokers Carlisle, Mellick & Company, and his wife Mary P., and a grandson of the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. In March 1932 he hit the news when the press learned that he married New York taxi-dance Cinderella Romaine Fleming against his family's wishes in December 1931. The marriage ended in Reno in November 1935. In September 1946, as Kay Booth, she's one of 12 "fortunate girls selected to appear as 'glorified girls,' in true Ziegfeld tradition," in the upcoming "Ziegfeld Follies". In May 1948 the exclusive social set of Palm Beach, Florida, is reported abuzz over her romance with Carlisle. "Carlisle, recently divorced, is a noted yachtsman. The 27-year-old actress will wed under her legal name, June Francis Hoffman." On June 1st, 1948 marries Allan Pinkerton Carlisle, sportsman of Palm Beach, Florida, and East Islip, New York, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Ramsing in Palm Beach, Florida. He’s 36; she’s 32; the press gives her age as 27. Carlisle will sell the big yacht on which they honeymoon off Florida, and he will settle with Karen in Hollywood. She wants to continue her movie career. After acquitting herself nicely in MGM's The Unfinished Dance (1947) and The Big City (1948), Karin was dropped by the studio for reasons that remain unclear. Karin Booth continued working in films into the 1950s, usually in such lower-berth programmers as The Cariboo Trail (1950), Tobor the Great (1955) and The World Was His Jury (1958); she retired in 1959. As Karen Booth Carlisle, she dies on July 27th, 2003 at age 87 in Jupiter, Florida. (1)The Hollywood Victory Caravan was a three-week railroad journey of 1942 that brought a number of famous performers across the United States to raise money for war bonds. Along the way there were numerous stops, which coincided with parades, performances, and other events. Some performers were present for the entire journey, others joined or left as their schedules permitted.

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Willys Ad - February 1943 1940: Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence. The Finns have lost 25,000 killed and 45,000 wounded, while the Russians have lost an estimated 200,000 killed and an unknown number of wounded. 1941: The Luftwaffe carries out a heavy raid against Clydebank, near Glasgow. 35,000 of the towns population of 47,000 are made homeless. 1941: Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union. *Lorraine Miller 1942: Three German spies in New York get a total of 117 years imprisonment. 1942: Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army. 1942: 50 aircraft equipped with Gee receivers attack Cologne. This is the most successful attack to date with the device; estimates put it is being five times more effective than non-Gee equipped aircraft. 1942: The Red Army launches an major attack against Army Group B from the Kerch peninsula in the eastern Crimea. Lorraine Miller 1943: An assassination attempt is made on Hitler. 1943: A Chinese counter-attack throws the Japanese back across the Yangtze River. 1943: Japanese forces end their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. 1944: The Russians announce the capture of Kherson in the southern Ukraine. 1944: British troops take the ‘Golden Fortress’ (Razabil) in Arakan, Burma. 1944: A U.S. submarine, Sandlance sinks a Japanese troopship convoy en route to the Marianas. Lorraine Miller 1945: Following a 600-bomber raid by the US 8th Air Force, the RAF with 800 bombers attacks Swinemünde North of Stettin, a major port of disembarkation for German refugees from eastern Germany, causing heavy damage to the docks and killing hundreds of civilians. 1945: The 2nd Belorussian Front launches an offensive against the Braunsberg pocket to the South of Königsberg. 1945: A surprise armored thrust by the British in central Burma, cuts off 3,000 Japanese in Mandalay. *Lorraine Miller was born on January 5th, 1922 in Flint, Michigan and attended schools in Flint, where she excelled in many areas including debate, singing, acting and numerous club activities. After graduating in May of 1940 from Flint Northern High, she worked as a telephone operator for Michigan Bell until she won a contest as "Rodeo Queen". The prize was a contract with MGM in Hollywood. When she arrived in California she stayed at the "Studio Club", a residence for young actresses. Her roommate there was Donna Reed. She made her screen debut as one of the Goldwyn Girls. In 1941 Flint celebrated "Lorraine Miller Day", and Life magazine ran a story with pictures about her work in Hollywood. Lorraine was known for her beauty, and she was often referred to as The Poor Man's Rita Hayworth and the Ball of Fire Girl. After a couple of years of mostly cheesecake layouts, Miller performed in a skit with Bob Hope in Paramount's "Star Spangled Rhythm" (1942) and then settled in as a popular B-Western heroine, appearing opposite such low-budget cowboys as Eddie Dew, Jimmy Wakely, and the constellation of Tex Ritter, Dave O'Brien, and Guy Wilkerson, aka PRC's Texas Rangers. Today, Miller is probably best remembered for playing one of the sexy hatcheck girls in the seminal film noir "The Big Sleep" (1946). Lorraine Miller died on February 6th, 1978.

Morning all. RDF. Flood Warning in effect until Wednesday. Yippie.

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