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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1941
Page
13
Braniff district manager Barney Ogle will wed Martha Callan of Dallas, Braniff hostess, in Dallas on August 16. The couple will marry after mutual vows and the event is announced with local social anticipation.
The Gallup poll shows 51 percent in favor and 45 percent opposed to extending the draft training beyond one year with final state results 53 percent keepers vs 47 percent release if no opinion is removed. Regional splits note East Central and West Central against extension while New England and others favor it.
Clyde J. March and others urge city action to limit road noise near hospitals, pave all hospital roads, and curb trucks and motorcycles on Polk Street east of the hospital. George Gall proposes a Britain friendly slogan, while Mrs. Howey warns of speeding taxis on Fourth Avenue toward the Santa Fe Station. Leslie Willson suggests residents carry small change for incidental bills. Wayne Thompson calls for stronger English and speech emphasis in schools and community.
The piece notes German panzer columns near Moscow wrapped around Smolensk with heavy fighting and a large Soviet counterpocket. It discusses American perceptions of Moscow news, U S price controls policy shifts, inflation fears, and Japan oil stocks in six to twelve months of supply amid wartime restraints.
A reader quiz presents four etiquette questions with authoritative answers: avoid pointing out lipstick in mixed company. ages should only be asked of children or job seekers. when declining a telephone invitation give a brief apology without forced reasons. a hostess should not appear hurt when a friend declines due to other plans.
A puzzle listing many clues across horizontal and vertical lines with numbers for each entry including animals plants metals and common words. Answers span various parts of speech from adjectives to nouns and require cross filling.
In a fourth installment, H. O. Thompson describes postwar Tokyo life as harsh for foreigners. Imports are limited, permits required, and rationing strict. Police harassment and crowded, unreliable transit complicate daily routines, with a shrinking American community and scarce goods from whisky to flour.
Hollywood star Olivia de Havilland discusses her post operative weight gain of 26 pounds after an appendectomy and recent loss of 10 pounds. She talks about wearing a gravity defying dress on the Warner Bros set for They Died With Their Boots On where she plays George Custer's wife opposite Errol Flynn.
In Salida Colorado Wilbur Foshay the prominent booster presses the city as “The Heart of the Rockies” with slogan campaigns and yellow heart signs along routes. He built the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis and after a prison spell Roosevelt commuted his sentence.
Answers to CRACKERS on Editorial Page list August facts: Augustus Caesar reign 31 BC to 14 AD after Julius Caesar, Columbus sailed from Palos August 3 1492, Orville Wright born August 19 1871, Charles G Dowes born August 27 1865, Benjamin Harrison born August 20 1833, Herbert Hoover born August 10 1874, Panama Canal officially opened August 15 1914.
Dale Carnegie recounts real stories from How to Get a Job and Win Success in Advertising. Young applicants used bold stunts like homing pigeons, portable phonographs, matchbook ads and blotter résumés to attract attention and clinch interviews with top agencies.
United Press outlines Burton Wheeler known as Bee Kay and his lifelong anti Roosevelt foreign policy stance. the montanan veteran politician reflects on defeats gains and a four term senate career marked by progressive farm relief and public enemy labels along with early fire eater notoriety.
The piece surveys Anna Reiner’s The Coward Heart about European refugees in prewar Paris and profiles biographies Bolivar the Liberator and Gomez the Tyrant by Thomas Rourke. It also previews Sodom by the Sea, The Keys to the Kingdom, Jungle Jim, and Safety in Flight with notes on tone, themes, and reception.
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