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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1942
Page
12
The readable fragments show garbled text and missing context about a local event. Names, places, or dates are unclear, preventing a full summary of actions or outcomes from the fragment.
Fourteen famous swing musicians were named to the first popularity chosen All American dance band in a nationwide poll by the Saturday Evening Post and RKO Radio for the film Syncopation. The lineup includes Goodman James Krupa Duchin Dorsey Miller and more. The program notes also promote upcoming Paramount and State Theatre films and a Red Cross campaign linked to on screen dialogue slips.
Wide World Features writer Paul J. C. Friedlander reports on Nazi occupied Europe where underground newspapers printed in attics and cellars defy Gestapo. Yugoslav patriots financed efforts with a 20 million dinar bond issued through ads, then the bond sold out. La Libre Belgique resurges in Belgium as anti Nazi press endures.
Reports from the Inter Allied Information Center describe editors and staff in occupied lands facing execution but continuing. Subversive presses in Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, and Czechoslovakia publish bold content and smuggle micro films to consulates abroad. The Polish underground publishes comics like Lipa and Szpilka, with a 1940 note about laughing over graves.
U P dispatch details Errol Flynn struggling in mud on the Warner Bros. Desperate Journey set. Flynn and co stars Alan Hale and Ronald Reagan slog through a swampy stage under Raoul Walsh's direction as crew battle the three week old mud.
Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians find that living parents influence life span not as heredity, but through environment. Those with both parents living at policy apply show longer lives, yet the differences among three groups do not align with hereditary expectations, emphasizing upbringing and care over genes.
In a wartime piece from New York a writer argues rubber shortages fuel tire bootlegging. He cites high prices, cross state reports, and urges the government to impose severe, clear penalties to deter buyers and sellers and curb the market.
A historical etiquette snippet lists five scenarios with preferred answers: use the guest focused greeting by naming the James residence, avoid abbreviating a state, refrain from silly nicknames for a husband, allow a dog in presence of guests, and choose to discipline noisy children by removing them from the room. It ends with two quoted proverbs about guidance and light.
Amarilloans report a split weekend with heavy snowfall at the Singleton cabin in South Fork Colorado while others chase azaleas in New Orleans. Local births, birthdays, and visits fill the community page with names and street addresses across Amarillo.
Ernie Pyle moves from Palm Springs to Phoenix as California braces for potential bombardment. He describes hotel shortages, desert business thriving, soldiers traveling east, and odd army checks at state lines while revisiting Hollywood notes and Gene Autry draft talk.
Answers to three items: the insignia shows the officer attached to the Bureau of Insular Affairs. The Sea Otters are a cargo ship design to be built quickly and cheaply powered by gasoline engines with a vertical shaft drive propeller midship. McNaughton is the commanding officer of Canadian troops in Britain.
Lamar Johnson of Stephens College criticizes focus on luxury college prep courses as costly. Paul V. McNutt warns against reforms, while Albert A. Gore cites war plant executives’ inflated bonuses and salaries as signs of improper profits and tax evasion.
Dale Carnegie W Atlee Burpee learned a lesson about human nature from a catapulted publicity stunt. Burpee faced a larger than life tomato on a catalogue cover and, to maintain honesty, issued a challenge claiming no one could grow such a fruit. Growers worldwide rose to the challenge sending larger tomatoes, proving that setting a difficult goal motivates action.
Gallup poll of housewives nationwide finds average minimum sugar needed per person weekly is 94 ounces or about 6 pounds per month for rationing. Registration for family sugar rationing set for May 4 5 6 and 7 with ration books issued Where Americans compare international sugar allowances and see Britain 8 ounces Canada 12 ounces Germany 8 Belgium 8 Czech Slovakia 10 Norway 7 Poland 4 Italy Japan data unavailable.
John Curtin, 56, Australian prime minister and Labor figure, rose from printing and pottery work to union leadership in Victoria and Western Australia. He edited the West Australia Worker from 1917 to 1928, won Fremantle in 1931, led the party in 1935 by a one vote margin, and gained a reputation for austere dignity and sharp conversation amid global labor movements.
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