Susanna Foster theater choices draw questions in Hollywood
In Hollywood notes Susanna Foster reportedly refused the Magnolia role in Showboat signaling a shift toward grand opera. The column argues her career needs direction and notes Orson Welles new camera ideas and Paul Henreid’s payroll suspension at Warner Brothers. Gig Young returns from service meeting Clifford March, the set janitor, highlighting war era changes in studio life. Clark Gable signs a $7000 weekly MGM deal with profit percentage. Gloria Vanderbilt and Leopold Stokowski are teased over aging references.
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Hollywood
Susanna Foster
New York
Universal
Carmel
Magnolia
Grace Moore
Miss Foster
Warner Brothers
Gig Young
Coast Guard
Clifford March
Cliff
Guadalcanal
379Th
10Th Army
Auto workers strike crisis sparks last minute talks
CIO Auto Workers vice president Walter Reuther announced a meeting with General Motors was canceled by mutual agreement and said he would fly to Buffalo to address strikers. The UAW and Chrysler negotiations collapsed over 30 percent wage demands amid calls for further union action.
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Detroit
U.P
Walter P. Reuter
CIO Auto Workers
Harry W. Anderson
General Motors
Reuther
Buffalo
N. Y
Anderson
UAW
Corporation
Philip Murray
CIO
Pittsburgh
R. J. Thomas
UAW International
Washington
Auto Workers
Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Norman Matthews
Shared education for veterans families urged in GI Bill era
Ruth NER argues in favor of both spouses pursuing schooling under the GI Bill to diversify income and secure long term stability. She notes short term needs push wives to work, but shared studies better prepare for future family life and child rearing, urging part time work and classes for both. The piece ends with a call to break gendered kitchen roles.
Dear Tack Lost Purse Report and Club Call
A letter asks readers to return a black envelope style purse containing identification a Sheaffer pen glasses a red compact and about fifteen dollars in cash lost on Polk Street between Fifth and Sixth. Mrs Steve Johnston Dumas Texas provides contact details. A second note invites Amarillo ladies to care for children for Newcomer's Club meetings on the first and third Tuesday. contact Mrs Welter at 2 2917.
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Polk Street
The
Globe News
Steve Johnston Dumas
Tex
Tack
Amarillo
Mrs. Welter
Hat Lost at Daniels and Fischer Store Denver
A reader asks for the return of a brown and green turban-style hat lost near Daniels and Fischer Department Store in Denver. A reward will be paid if the finder returns it to the Globe News office.
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Daniels and Fischer Department Store
Denver
Globe News
About Your Baby and Camp Benefits for Different Child Types
The article argues camp can aid various children including the only child the spoiled child and the bully. It outlines how camp life fosters independence self reliance and social restraint while teaching empathy and admiration for positive role models.
Camp Life For Children Promotes Confidence And Play
The article describes camp as a paradise where children learn self control, teamwork, and resilience. It stresses praising effort over perfection and choosing campers in good physical condition while advising quiet homes for nervous or underweight children. It ends with a note about a feeding schedule leaflet for babies and how to obtain it.
One Machine To Do Most of Housework
A 1946 gadget promises to perform dishwashing butter churning ice cream freezing and laundry with attachments for washing rinsing and drying. The feature envisions a future where machines replace much domestic labor and even lets a reader imagine casual chats with a neighbor while chores run.
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Susie
Electric Pied Piper Kills Rats
A 20th century rat trap described as an electric execution device by Electric Traps Inc. It uses a tunnel, a tingle on the feet, a death chamber and a dropping floor to kill rats with 110 volt current. The American Food Industries calls it a Pied Piper of pest control.
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New York
Food Industries
Electronic Traps, Inc
Indian Repeats Cobra Killing by Harvest Knife
Farmer Puluga Thevan of Bodinaikanur spent a day in prayer after killing fourteen cobras with a harvest knife. While working his field a hooded cobra rose from an ant hill. he struck and a chain of 13 more snakes came out to die on the blade. Thevan fainted after the last cobra was dispatched.
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Bombay
Puluga Thevan
Bodinaikanur
Subra
Thevan
Fireman on duty by alarm at own back door
Cairo Ill. city fireman Leonard Tanner, off duty, heard a station alarm less than a block away. He smelled smoke and found a fire at his back door, quickly taking charge until fellow firefighters arrived to control the blaze.
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Cairo
Ill
Leonard Tanner
Tanner
Bermuda's Poor Need Housing Plan Urges 400 Homes Now
Bermuda's study commission presented its first overall housing plan to the house of assembly. It calls for 400 low-price homes immediately and 600 more within five years. The report cites overcrowding and poor sanitation behind many stone houses and notes labor costs consume 40 percent of construction.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
House of Assembly
Housing Commission
Burghley
Sultan Returns to Throne in Halmaheras
Sultan is back on his throne ruling the Halmaheras. He governs one of the largest domains in the East Indies, encompassing all of the islands.
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Ternate
Halmaheras
East Indies
Islands
Palace of Halmahera Sultan Flee During War
A two story marble palace built by the British in 1812 stands in the Halmahera group. The sultan, a black man in his forties, fled Ternate as guerrilla bands intensified and Japanese forces began taking native hostages during the war.
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Halmahera
Islands
Ternate
Tyler Quashed Old Title in Early Presidency
Kent State University professor Mona Fletcher notes the creation of the acting president title after William Henry Harrison died. John Tyler refused to accept sounding like acting president, asserting he was the president, shaping later congressional practice.
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Kent, O
Truman
John Tyler
Mona Fletcher
Kent State University
William Henry Harrison
Tyler
Congress
Circuit Judge Flew 70 Miles for Murder Trial
Franklin Indiana special judge Grant Rogers flew in an airplane from Franklin to Bedford to preside over a murder trial. The trial began Monday at 10 A M, evidence finished after 24 hours, the jury convicted and sentenced the defendant, and Rogers returned home within 30 hours, resuming his Franklin court duties the next morning.
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Franklin, Ind
U.P
Grant Rogers
Bedford
Rogers
Franklin Court
Freak lamb with an extra front leg in Wyoming report
Rancher George Puller near Shoshoni reports a twin lamb with an extra front leg and shoulder above the right shoulder. The limb bears two hooves and he plans to bottle-feed the unusual animal.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
U.P
Wyoming
George Puller
Shoshoni
Fuller
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