Amarillo Highlights From The Nat And Local Scenes
Red Sievers opened a new stint as maestro before a sizable crowd at the Nat. Local events include marriage announcements, theater showings at the Paramount and State, dances, sorority activities, and civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Sievers
Red
Joan Carter
Doris Vineyard
Marvin Lee Hodde
Canton Cafe
Jane Austin
Louis Clarendon Willoughby
Sadie Clark
Henry Kellner
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Paramount
Galloup ‘Otes
Jimmy Moore
Amarillo
Maxine Robison
Austin
C. R. Garner
Kapna Tau Peta
Nat— Dan
Maxine Higgins
Martha Nell Stack
Hollywood
Jimmie Sullivan
Charles Underwood
Mary Fdna Alford
William Holden
Martha Scott
Our Town
Fred Patterson
George Tucker
Charlie Snyder
David Yates
Interstate
Ideas for Amarillo readers spark civic thoughts and plans
A flood of letters from Amarillo residents proposes city improvements and social ideas. Writers urge traffic flow fixes, tree planting, shared utilities, a noon citywide prayer, affordable pricing for all ages, and safer streets for children while calling for health and water quality actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Union Utilities Office
Marguerite Norman
Council Bluffs Exposed as a Pocket of History and Hypocrisy
Ernie Pyle tours Council Bluffs Iowa a city across the river from Omaha noting mixed laws and a lively lore. He highlights gambling options at dog tracks a liquor scene and a tax on cigarette papers while praising local history landmarks and a strong volunteer military tradition anchored by The Nonpareil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Missouri River
Towa
Midwest
Salt Lake City
Abraham Lincoln
Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Union Pacific Railroad
Grenville M. Dodge
Union Pacific
Mrs. Dodge
Daniel Chester French
In Brief Isaac Griffin home nest for hawk
Letters dropped daily in the mailbox of Isaac Griffin near Malcolm Iowa attract a wren that has chosen the site as a nest. The quiet rural scene contrasts with wartime rails and steel conversion in a period of war production.
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Isaac Griffin
Today's Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical Clues List
A filled crossword with 71 horizontal and 67 vertical clues across varied definitions and word lengths. Answers include common nouns verbs and adjectives covering everyday items and abstract terms to complete the grid.
On the Record from London War Impressions
The Archbishop of Canterbury recalls Lambeth Palace ruins yet notes untouched altars as bombed England endures. Firefighters, workers, and scholars recount resilience, food shortages, evacuations, and civic defiance while wartime Britain braces for invasion and sustains a sense of unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Thompson
London
Wirelss
of Canterbury
Lambeth Palace
Church of England
Quotations On Morals And Mindset From Classic Texts
A compact collection of lines from Bible verses and Shakespeare reflecting virtue contentment and the human condition. The excerpts reference restraint gentleness labor prayer and inner peace across religious and literary sources.
Nazi casualty claims and U S political shifts examined
The article critiques Nazi casualty figures in the Russian campaign, contrasts them with expected losses, and notes confidential estimates around 1.5 to 2 million German deaths. It also covers U S political maneuvering, New Deal figures for attorney general, military spare parts shortages for Britain, Transocean News Service operations, and a proposed brigadier general appointment amid war noise controversies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Paul Mallon
Washington
Hitler
Pyrrhus
Francis Biddle
Roosevelt
Norman Littel
Littel
John Lewis
Tommy
Cork Corcoran
Biddle
Britain
Egypt
England
Hemisphere
Transocean News Service
South America
Messrs
Zapp
Tom
Transocean
Latin
Zeesen
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
War Department
Senate
From Gym to Big Business Monty MacLevy’s Modernization
The piece chronicles Monty MacLevy inheriting a gym at 122 Fast 42nd Street New York and transforming it into a national slimming empire. He creates a women’s sliming salon, opens a Parc Vendome branch, and expands to 100 salons. He then refines the business with slenderizing machines cosmetics and home use units, urging continuous innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parc Vendome
West 56Th Street
New York
Brooklyn
Westchester
Long Island
Boston
Philadelphia
Monty MacLevy
Lazy plants bend to light in Venezuela study
A Venezuelan experiment showing pho tropism explains why some plants lie flat. D G Langham found lawn plantains and eight other species raise leaves in dim light and lie down when exposed to sunlight, with similar results under artificial and reflected light.
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Howard W Blakeslee
Science
New York
Venezuela
D. G. Langham
Agriculture Experiment Station
el Valle
Caracas
Plantain
Dr. Langham
Washington lawyers ride defense boom as business wakes up
Law and industry are reshaping. while defense contracts surge, firms seek waivers of priorities to fit orders into defense batches. Seven cases show how priorities clash with private contracts, prompting lawyers to mobilize as industry realizes defense reshapes business.
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Jack Stinnett
United States
Washington Lawyers
Washington
National Defense
Army
Navy
Seattle
Pittsburg Steel
CHUCKLES FROM CAMP FEATURES AND PRISONER PIGEON TALES
A composite World War I era column notes the Army rejecting a Confederate flag background for a quartermaster insignia at Camp Lee Virginia. It also reports Kaiser a German World War I carrier pigeon at Fort Monmouth and a Haan California scene where a lieutenant fires at a photo electric target while a boy mocks the effort with a sharp remark.
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Associated Press
Lee
Robert B. Lee
War Department
Traveller
General Lee
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Kaiser
Meuse- Argonne
Clifford A. Poutre
U. S. Army Corps
Camp Haan
Calif
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Bill
France
Shirley Temple
The
Amarillo News-Globe
Mother Nature
Johnnie Mize
Hoover
Capistrano
U. S
Rogers
Pdaniel
Pampa
Ward Garrison
Mildred Lytte
Theta Chi
Alpha Beta
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Maxine Cartwright
Ann Smith
Darrell Grundy
Fred Gerard
Elza Reynolds
Ben Turpin
Alpha Delta Sorority
Palisades
Ariane Borg
Janie Eslick
Jean Harlow
Spencer Tracy
Texas
Vesta O'Dell
Bobby Baker
Williamson Sisters
Paramount Theater
Junior Business Women's Club
Ellwood Park
Herbie Holmes
Nat
Anne Hurst
Amarillo College
Betty Blake
Naomi Stroud
Charles Ware
Neal Ware
Mary Evelyn Gould
Gib Howard
Floy Howard
Lionel Barrymore
Fort Worth Frontier
Faye Cotton
Margaret Woodruff
Childress
Kathleen Alexander
Virginia Lee
Dude Vance
Crown Bar
George Raft
Globe-News
A. R. Jones
Bryan Street
Grace Obryant
Buchanan Street
Panhandle
Beauford Hill
Tyler Street
Mary Miller Beard
Sixth Avenue
Rex Theater
Jane
Roberta Wright
North Mirror
J. Francis Brown
Harrison Street
America
Malcolm
Wren
Henry Wallace
Pierce
Abraham
House of Commons
Oxford
East End
Ernest Bevin
Cambridge
Rosy Cambridge
Gray Oxford
Chips
Arthur Eddington
Herbert Richmond
Toynbee
Adolf Hitler
Auxiliary Army
W. Sackville-West
Robert
Archduke
Hapsburg
Christopher Wren
Thames
John S. Dwight
Dale Carnegie
Maurice Boyd
Italy
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