Eugene Kinkead
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PROFILE of Edward T. Townsend, game warden of Westchester County. The greatest problem of Townsend's career was the crow-invasion of the winter of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Roosevelt stamp collection. Like Roosevelt, King George derived a beneficial relaxation from stamps. The King, however, was a …
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Eugene Kinkead’s 1946 interview with Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Talk story about Dr. John R. Dunning releasing atomic energy by splitting uranium. It was on the night of Jan. 25, 1939. That morning, Dr. Enrico Fermi had…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the surrender of U-805, A German submarine, the second to be brought into an east-coast post under the terms of the Reich's …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about New York's naval training school. Its classrooms & dormitories are tucked away aboard the U. S. S. Prarie State, a craft which …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about winding up and demolition of World's Fair. Tells what happened to buildings, exhibits, etc. Most of the Futurama destroyed …
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Talk story about Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and the most harried of Communists these days. Not only does he have to explain, over and …
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PROFILE of Rita Ross, who since 1919, has almost singlehandedly rid the city of half a million homeless cats, turning them over to the SPCA for painless …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a train trip to the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Sayre, Pennsylvania, chartered by the N. Y. Chapter of the Railway & …