WEALTHY MEN SERVE
AMERICANS IN PACIFIC MILLIONAIRE WITH MARINES. Members of multi-millionaire American families, and men whose names are household words in their own country, are serving in the United States lorces in the South Pacific, reports Winston Turner, Sydney Sun yvar correspondent. Lieutenanr-Com-mander Gene Markey. Hollywood pro ducer, and ex-husband of screen stars Joan Bennett and Hedy Lama r r, holds a senion post in Navy Inceib.gencc. For a time he was on Guadalcanar. Suave and polished, he is a.i excellent organiser, and immensely popular with officers and men. In Navy Operations is youthful Lieutenant Clifford Mallory, he ; r to the Mallory Steamshin Line, wh’ch operates a big fleet along the North and South American coasts. Young Mai lory’s sister is running the line in his absence. Marshall Field, of Chicago young heir to the Marshall F'Nd fortune, which includes America’s biggest de nartment store and the r°wsnaper Cnicago Sun. is a junior officer o,i an American airoraft-carrier. Another millionaire doing his bit is Captain Waiter F. Mclfheny. United States Marine Corns, a v.>u:i> 7 member of the American sauce and salt t rmly A daring officer and a crack he took command of a unit ol snipers on Guadalcanar.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 2
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201WEALTHY MEN SERVE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 2
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