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Kate Smith

1907–1986 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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November 13, 1942 Kate Smith broadcasts her network radio hour twice from Memorial Hall The Kate Smith Hour, with Ted Collins and guest stars Jane Wyatt and George Murphy, was broadcast coast to coast from the stage of Memorial Hall, first to the Pre-Flight School's cadets and officers in the evening and again at midnight to an audience of students, faculty and townspeople. The Pre-Flight glee club sang, and the film The Navy Comes Through, starring Wyatt and Murphy, had its southern premiere at the Carolina Theatre the same day. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ted Collins, Jane Wyatt, George Murphy · Also mentions: Carolina TheatreSearch the index · Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 14, 1942, p. 1

Indexed works

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R. B. House papers, 1916-1973.

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1916

R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Smith, Kate, 1907-1986.

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Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
Navy Pre-Flight School University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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