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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur played prominent roles in the Pacific theater of World War II and in the Korean War. He was designated to command the invasion of Japan in November 1945, and when that was no longer necessary he officially accepted their surrender. MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951 and is credited for implementing democratic changes.Gen. MacArthur is entombed in a memorial in Norfolk, Va.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur played prominent roles in the Pacific theater of World War II and in the Korean War. He was designated to command the invasion of Japan in November 1945, and when that was no longer necessary he officially accepted their surrender. MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951 and is credited for implementing democratic changes.Gen. MacArthur is entombed in a memorial in Norfolk, Va.
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On this day in history
On Aug. 30, 30 B.C., by some estimates, the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt known as Cleopatra committed suicide. In 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein," was born in London. In 1862 Union forces were defeated by...Tags: Road Accidents, CBS Corp., Crimes, Drug Trafficking, Meteorological Disasters
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Cruises drive baseball way out of the park
Special to the Chicago TribuneAs Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously put it: "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." Apparently so it is, too, for old baseball players. Only the boys of summer turn into temporary sailors. They turn up on cruise ships galore, where they show...Tags: Music, Bob Feller, Major League Baseball, Baseball, Sailing
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Maurice Benewitz, local arbitrator, dies at 84
joshua.seidman@newsday.comMaurice C. Benewitz, a labor arbitrator and opera enthusiast from Levittown, died Saturday at North Shore University Hospital after a long struggle with heart and kidney problems. He was 84. "He had passions that he fulfilled," said Earl Pfeffer, a...Tags: Collective Contract, Michigan, Music Theater, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Death and Dying
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Old legal feuds divided, linked McCain and ex-wife
Associated Press WriterAn old lawsuit on record at the city courthouse reveals a moment of friction between John McCain's mother and his ex-wife. Years later, McCain and his former wife presented a united front in a lawsuit of their own. McCain, the Republican candidate for...Tags: Family, Ronald Reagan, National Government, Court Administration, Beach Vacations
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Tony Daly reflects on his many Olympic moments
Tony Daly has had an Olympic moment or two. More like 200. That's why it was fitting and special that he was able to comfortably watch Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony from his home in Los Angeles. The 74-year-old doctor and sports medicine...Tags: Employees, Herb Brooks, Medicine, Bill Russell, Awards and Prizes
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Sherman E. Lee, 90; former director of Cleveland art museum gave it international prestige
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSherman E. Lee, a former longtime director of the Cleveland Museum of Art whose keen-eyed collecting of old European and Asian masterpieces gave it international prestige, died of natural causes July 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90. Lee took the helm of...Tags: Family, Libraries and Museums, Los Angeles, Jackson Pollock, Death and Dying
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U.S. witnessed massacres
The associated pressThe American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining...Tags: Police Investigations, Crimes, Massacres, Prisoners and Detainees, Defense
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On July 8, 1822, English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off Livorno, Italy; he was 29. In 1889 The Wall Street Journal began publishing. In 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" show in New York. In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson...Tags: New York, Satellite and Cable Service, Florenz Ziegfeld, Woodrow Wilson, Ojai
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River battle near Quincy
Tribune correspondentsOutside this river city, a battle raged Thursday to save what so far has been spared from this week's Mississippi River floodings. As he stomped his way to the top of the levee in nearby Pike County, levee board president Russ Koeller towered over his...Tags: Vehicles, Natural Disasters, Mississippi, Floods, Clarksville
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Wes Clark hits McCain landmine, again
The Swampby Frank James What was it that Gen. Douglas MacArthur said about old soldiers not dying but merely fading away? It's safe to guess that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign would like Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.) to fade away right......Tags: West Point, Barack Obama, National Government, Defense, The White House
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Merrick artist sheds light on WWII mystery
Special to NewsdayThe concept of time has always inspired artist Andrea Davide. Her home in Merrick is filled with elaborate, hanging sculptures she has created out of brass, glass, gears and other parts of old clocks. "I'm really into time," she says with a chuckle....Tags: Transportation Accidents, Awards and Prizes, Air and Space Accidents, Health and Safety at Work, Defense
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