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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1940
Page
5
An Amarillo Globe News editorial argues against defeatist thinking in military preparation. It cites General Marshall and a bold Marine landing force as examples of making do with current assets and training, urging leaders and recruits to pursue tasks deemed impossible and complete them.
In a tense wartime household Julia and Sandra hide a breach of propriety as Felicia arrives battered and disheveled, wearing a pink satin girdle and torn stockings. The trio improvise to avoid alarms while tensions among the lodgers, including Jeff, rise over the intruder and the club’s noticed presence.
In a tense nocturnal scene at a military post Julia and Felicia discover a raging fire near the target range. A car lies wrecked in the gulley as soldiers fight the blaze while a shadowy occupant remains inside the conflagration, drawing closer attention from Adam.
A New York Telephone Co advertising push spotlights how phones tempt people to exaggerate vacation tales and daily life. Executives led by Pitt F. Carl Jr discuss campaigns to boost toll calls and shopping by phone while promoting a Leave Word service trial in five East Side offices.
The eighty four birthday piece recalls Diamond Jim Brady born near a saloon, who turned social flair and flamboyant wealth into a fortune. He started with a hacksaw sale, bought diamonds and fine clothes, impressed customers by theatrics, and built a vast network through parties, friendship, and publicity.
Five questions test knowledge of landmarks. Locate Taj Mahal Arc de Triomphe Sphinx Trajan Column Parthenon and answer when Washington Monument was built identify the Italian painter and sculptor also architect of St Peter's Church in Rome name the cradle of liberty public market place pre revolutionary era and name the first public building erected in Washington DC.
Washington columnist recalls the Duke and Duchess of Windsor moving to Nassau where the Duke will serve as governor general. The piece reflects on past weddings, trousseaus, and lavish travels, contrasting wartime fears with the calm in the Bahamas and noting no Stuka bombs in the flower gardens.
A manners quiz asks if lowering head to drink coffee is proper, whether a fork handle may rest on the table, if stirring coffee to cool is polite, and if blowing on coffee is rude. It also covers how to eat a club sandwich and how to handle cheese and crackers for dessert, with the recommended actions including using knife and fork and placing the fork prongs up on the plate.
A crossword style puzzle with horizontal clues from 1 to 63 and vertical clues from 2 to 61. Includes terms like grave grief tragedy and various wordplay hints about letters, prefixes, and common puzzle language. answers reference classic crossword vocabulary.
Fourteen Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany work a half‑interest farm near Saltillo, Mexico, harvesting their first crops. Former dentists doctors musicians and others adapt to rugged, sunburned labor after escaping concentration camps and relying on pooled possessions to buy the land with minor government help.
The Time excerpt describes how daytime dramas use baby plotlines to remove characters, including Alice Frost in Big Sister and Sandra Wilson in Meet Miss Julia. It notes Marjorie Bartlett’s plan to burn a tenement to return Big Sister, and Roslyn Silber’s Hawaii farce masking Gertrude Berg’s Rosie.
In a Collier's piece, customs officers on the U S Canada border require cattle to stay on their own side. When livestock stray into the foreign sector, their tails are washed with a soda solution causing Canadian cattle tails to turn bright red, signaling crossing animals.
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