Hollywood Debut and Film News Highlights
Paramount opens The Fleet's In with Jimmy Dorsey and Dorothy Lamour leading roles. The Ghost Of Frankenstein starts at the State, Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard star in The Lady Has Plans opening soon. A features column lists many film tidbits and a student profile from Amarillo High School.
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FLEET
Jimmy Dorsey
Hollywood
Paramount
Dorothy Lamour
William Holden
Bette Davis
Ray Milland
Paulette Goddard
Brenda Marshall
Robert Young
Fred Astaire
Holiday Inn
Bing Crosby
Tripoli
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CLUES
A dense set of crossword clues across horizontal and vertical entries with standard abbreviations. The puzzle lists numbered clues for popular singer Johnson variations parent and many more across and down with missing letters indicated by wordplay and abbreviations.
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Johnson
Geography class teaches live world changes in seventh grade
A writer goes undercover as a seventh grade geography student in New York to observe how current events shape lessons. He notes lively Latin America study, the Good Neighbor policy relevance, and teachers balancing old and new facts with student engagement.
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New York
Senate
House
Katherine Moesser
Wheeler
Atlanta
Sissy
Latin America
Andes
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Bolivar
Argentina
Mamma
Henry
War Department Camouflage Booklet Admits Rubber Shortage
The article notes a War Department guide on camouflaging cities and airfields, recommending rubber sprinkled on runways amid a tire shortage. It cites a large rubber firm offering grinding and supplying about 15 tons daily, while other divisions favor rubber for aircraft wheels. It covers labor shifts, railroad strife, and efforts toward a unified military command, plus global wartime shortages and politics.
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Washington
Landis
Office For Civilian Defense
War Department
Air Corps
War strategy across time from Sun Tzu to Maisky
Dorothy Thompson surveys military thought from Sun Tzu to Soviet Ambassador Maisky. She argues strategy hinges on deception and geography, not numeric arms, and warns against Axis moves toward Russia and the Caucasus while stressing unity with Allies to prevent concentrated Axis offensives.
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Sun Tzu
Mr. Maisky
London
Maisky
Russia
Henderson fuel tire jokes stir postwar policy debate
General Douglas MacArthur says solving international issues needs more than pictures of Leon Henderson with a cigarette in his mouth. He argues tire shortages and broader economic strain require real action, not slogans, as he credits Australia’s officials and soldiers in a dinner with the Australian Parliament.
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Leon Henderson
Australia
Wwe
Douglas RineArthur
Portrait of Nellie Coffman Desert Pioneer in Palm Springs
ERNIE PYLE profiles Nellie Coffman owner of the Desert Inn and mother to Palm Springs desert development. The shy, energetic hostess loves walking, talks with guests, and funds desert haven while enduring heat and poverty before rising social status.
War Quiz Answers from Editorial Page Mention Combat Roles
The quiz on Editorial Page 1 lists answers: Servier as army chemical warfare wearer, Baron Mannerhelm as a Finnish field marshal, and Tmim and Kexkili located in Libya.
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Dasturnia
Army
Baron Mannerhelm
Tmim
Kexkili
Libya
Dale Carnegie Found Second Path To Success
The story follows Dale Carnegie from enrollment at Ohio University in 1930 to shifting from medical ambitions to booking college dances. He builds a band, moves to Cleveland, then lands a New York hotel booking after a radio breakthrough, proving the value of pursuing a second strong path when first options fail.
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Blue Barron
Ohio University
Cleveland
Ohio
New York
Add New Vitamins
Howard Blakeslee reports findings from the Rockefeller Institute on three new vitamins added to the known fifteen. Experiments with guinea pigs show linseed oil and dried grass components extend life and support growth when other nutrients are supplied. Separate notes cover vitamin B1 offering cobra venom protection in mice and safety of alkaline beverages with no harm observed in humans.
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Boston
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
D. W. Wooley
Rockefeller Institute
New York
Wooley
India
David I Macht
Elizabeth C. Spencer
Alfred H. Free
Dean F. Davis
Gordon F. Gustafson
Victor Cc. Myers
Western Reserve School of Medicine
Cleveland
Profile of Bruce Humberstone the Lucky director
Bruce Humberstone known as Lucky for his golf skill built a film career starting in Westerns and horse operas. He rose from actor to director, worked on In Old Chicago and To the Shores of Tripoli, and handles epics and musicals with a steady temperament. He raised tropical fish in Toluca Lake and is married with a seven year old daughter Nat. Born in Buffalo New York, he studied at a military academy aiding his marine tribute film.
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United Press
Bruce Humberstone
H. Bruce Humberstone
Hollywood
Toluca Lake
Nat
Humberstone
Laura la Plante
Z2asu Pitts
Chicago
Buffalo
N. Y
Tripoli
U. S
Movie Mama Mrs McDowall Shapes Roddy's Valley Presence
Hollywood profile of Mrs Winifred McDowall mother to Roddy McDowall star of How Green Was My Valley. She stays off set camera ready and trusts directors while guiding Roddy to study, health, and discipline. She calls crew by first names and shows calm influence on the set. Roddy respects adults and calls Mr Pichel sir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Foster
Hollywood
Winifred McDowall
a_ sturdy
Scot
Roddy
Green
My Valley
Ruth Withers
Jane
0Th Century-Fox
Tyrone Power
Gene Tierney
McDowall
Irving Pichel
Mr. Pichel
Wth Military School Precision
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Amarillo High School
Glenn Miller
Jodie Simmons
James Chisholm
Mary Ann Dudley
Dick Cline
Barbara Boyce
Janie Edwards
Nell
Nelda Reed
Claud L. Elkins
West 10Th
Evan
North Dakota
Louisiana
Royal Canadian Air Force
Lach
Currie
Fin
McLemore
Dryden
Aaa Anaes
Naka
Sahore Hel
Kasino
Soryu
Akagi
Yamasiro
Kadekuru
Ene Ea
TAKAO
Hiryu
Kongo
Fala Ole Ilo
Koryu
Nissin
Ryuzyo
Syokaku
Takamatu
Kaga
Tenryu
Mer
United Nations
Haruna
Paul Mallon
Craft Headquarters
Peoria
Tional Brotherhood
White House
Admiral King
General Marshall
General Arnold
Langer
Hitler
Europe
Berlin
Ukraine
John Winant
Miss Perkins
Burma
Dorothy Thompson
Clausewitz
Japan
Philippines
Siberia
Germany
British Isles
Africa
Turkey
Syria
Near East
Sir Halford Mackinder
Sir Halford
Haushofer
Asia
Americas
Black Sea
Tran
Baku
Caucasus
Pacific
Ernie Pyle
Mother Coffman
Palm Springs
Calif
Nellie Coffman
Southwest
Picuire
Earl
Mother Coffiman
Desert Inn
Coffmans
Wall Street
Hudson
Tennessee
Virginia
WAR Quiz
Dale Carnegie
By Howard Blakeslee
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