Sunday, January 16, 2022

Friday, January 16, 1942. The death of Carole Lombard.

Elizabeth Peters, mother of Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, and Carole Lombard in 1939.

Carole Lombard, 33-year-old actress and wife of Clark Gable, died in an airplane crash, along with her mother, and fifteen soldiers. The TWA flight crashed into a mountain outside of Las Vegas, Nevada on its way back to California.

She was the first Hollywood star to die in World War Two.

You can read more about this tragedy here:

16 January 1942

The US created the War Production Board.

In other aviation related news, Prime Minister Churchill returned to the UK by plane, the first Prime Minister to do so, and undoubtedly a safer way to make that trip, given the ongoing Operation Drumbeat.

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Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

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