Sealed Cornerstone Ideas From Billy Rose Toast
A 1950 column lists items to seal in a cornerstone for future readers. It proposes a Congressional Record copy, a $20 gold piece, a paid tax stub, a New York telephone directory, a G string and rope, a Mule Train record, Thurber’s Sex Necessary, a Time magazine cover on cybernetics, an Ellis Island photo, a U N building image, a voting booth model, a Kinsey Report, a hydrogen balloon, and a Picasso print, reflecting era curiosities and fears about technology and society.
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Opy
Congressional Record
Europe
Asia
Yate
New York
Frankie Laine
James Thurber
Atndia
Kinsey
Picasso
Hollywood Dreams and the Almost Sellout Minute
Fiction BARON JORDAN quits a Chicago advertising post to chase screenwriting in Hollywood. He and his wife Sally chase money, living on hope as four scripts nearly sold but never did. After a failed stretch, Aaron cuts his finger. the store manager records the incident as they face an uncertain future in Tinseltown.
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Baron Jordan
Chicago
Sally
Aaron
Hollywood
Joe ‘Neal
Almost A Mistake Sparks Job Offer For Aaron
Aaron contemplates an insurance scam after a cut finger then accepts a writer job offer from a local paper. The adjuster visits, Sally disapproves, and the couple shifts from fraud to employment. The dialogue writer role pays 250 dollars to start, near 300.
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Aaron
Jackson
Sally
CROSSWORD PUZZLE AND DOVIN CLUES SUMMARY
A puzzle row compiling across and down clues with varied terms such as Begone, Cover with cement, Bird, Goddess of discord, and many more including numeric and abbreviations. Entries span actions, objects, and descriptors, combining common crossword fixtures with oblique abbreviations and historical spellings.
Word puzzle snippet hints last week’s answer list
A compact clue item listing several puzzle entries last week with numbers 34 35 36 38 42 and hints like Hurl Monkey Girl’s name Astern. The fragment suggests a crossword or cryptic style puzzle note referencing named answers and a specific order.
Hollywood Stars and Their Latest Film Moves
ENDELE COREY, hot in Hollywood, enjoys clout and choice roles after Thelma Jordan and No Lady Songs for Me. Ray Milland takes over a role Corey declined in A Life of Her Own, while Cary Grant gears for redecoration duties on his rebuilt home with Betsy Drake.
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Thelma Jordan
Lang Turner
New York
Corey
New Orleans
Cary Grant
Mr. Blandings
Betsy Drake
Early Chicago mayor helped start Elgin watchmaking
B W Raymoud an early Chicago mayor arrived from New York to begin a business career in 1536. Three years later he became chief executive of Chicago and later helped launch the watch industry at Elgin Illinois, where a timepiece bearing his name is still produced.
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B. W. Raymoud
Chicago
New York
Elgin
Ill
Elgin pioneers spark watch industry with land and stock
In 1864 Elgin Illinois grew as a watch center thanks to pioneer residents who donated 35 acres of land and subscribed 25000 dollars in stock to attract the infant industry.
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Elgin
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Broadway
Main Street
Billy Rose
Time Magazine
Harvard
Norbert Wiener
Ellis Island
U. N
First Avenue
Grace Noll Crowell
Jordans
Pacific Coast Studios
Pacific Coast
Aron
Thrash
Dovin
Nobleman
Sym
Inez Gerhard
Endele Corey
Paramount
Wendell
Ray Milland
Six Pictures
Metro
Elizabeth Taylor
Good Samaritan
Church World Service, Inc
Religious Overseas Relief Agency
Dean
Doan
Doss
Fred Baiay
Firestone
Lisson
Voice of Firestones
NBC
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