Asleep the Character and a Mindy’s Run In On Broadway
Damon Runyon recalls a summer night near Mindy’s on Broadway when a night manager hurls a character in a brown suit at him and reveals Asleep the famed character who once dominated Broadway’s underworld. The tale traces Asleep’s rise and quiet ways after years of notoriety and a 1931 incident ending with his college exile.
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Mindy’s
Broadway
Mindy's
Short Mail
Asleep
Dave the Dude
Big Mocy
Moey
Chances
Mike Seal
Puty
Bladders
Admiral Byrd Flags the South Pole for United Nations
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole and planted the United Nations flag, marking a second pole crossing after his 1929 flight. He returned to Little America after nearly 13 hours aloft, with the pole temperature at four degrees below zero at about 12 000 feet.
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S. MT. Olympus
Antarctic
U.P
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
U Nations
Little America
Byrd
Pole
Jester Plans Dallas Trip for Jaycees Convention
Gov. Beaufort H. Jester said he would fly to Dallas to attend the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce event and the Jaycees international gathering. He will participate in a noon radio broadcast and return to Austin for the governor's reception, despite letters urging him not to fly.
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Austin
U.P
Beauford H. Jester
Oak Cliff
Postpone Action on Dooley Nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed until next Monday action on President Truman's nomination of Joe B. Dooley of Amarillo to be a federal district judge for Northern Texas. Senator Connally of Texas announced the delay after a closed-door meeting.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Truman
Joe B. Dooley
Amarillo
Texas
Senator Connally
Committee aims to vote on nomination with absent members noted
The committee meeting was adjourned due to several members' absence. Chairman Wiley emphasized maximizing attendance amid a dispute between Connally and Senator O'Daniel of Texas over the nomination, a position Connally has supported.
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Wiley
Wisconsin
Connally
O'Daniel
Texas
Potter County to hire architect for Tri State Fair arena
Commissioners name J. Roy Smith as architect to design a sports arena and exhibition hall at the Tri State Fair grounds. The plan calls for a 150 by 130 foot building with seating for at least four thousand and an open center unobstructed for basketball and similar events.
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Potter County
J. Roy Smith
Weekend Amarillo crime includes hijacking and burglary
A busy weekend in Amarillo featured a hijacking and an attempted robbery with a cash register hold up at the Papoose Cafe on North Fillmore. The belt theft from Bobby Burns near Park Lane Apartments also marked the weekend.
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Amarillo
Bobby Burns
Park Lane
North Polk
St. Anthony's Hospital
Polk
Burns
North Fillmore
Earl Hisan
Hisaw
Flo Morgan
Mr. Hisaw
Mr. Hisan
Marvin Richardson
Florida
City
San Jacinto Park
Richardson
West Sixth
Municipal Golf Course
Mead’s
West Seventh
Amarillo Considers Federal Aid for Hospital Expansion
The commissioners court formed a committee led by Gene Klein to study federal funds for planning and building a Northwest Texas Hospital expansion adding 100 beds with at least 30 private rooms. A. P. Hancock said planning funds may be available as an outright grant if the project proceeds.
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Commissioners Court
Northwest Texas Hospital
Gene Klein
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Hospital
Buck Berringer
John Crudgington
Chamber of Commerce Hospital
Berringer
A. P. Hancock
Amarillo
Britain Faces Week-Long Cold Spell and Power Shortages
Britain braces for at least another week of frigid weather and ongoing fuel shortages that disrupt factory output and daily life. Power rationing continues, leaving homes and businesses with limited electricity while miners work overtime in support of the Labor government’s nationalized mines promises.
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London
Carrie Hammer Wins News Tip Contest in Local Poll
The weekly News Tip contest awards Carrie Hammer a 5 dollar prize for the baby birth in a truck tip. Barbara Wiseman receives 3 dollars for the Wolflin school odors tip. Lloyd Reynold earns 2 dollars for the firemen and hat incident. Other tips from numerous residents are listed with addresses. Checks will be mailed. Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes-Insurance.
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Carrie Hammer
Johnson
Wolflin School
Barbara Wiseman
Madison
Lloyd Reynold
Central Fire Station
Dock Coffey
Joe Brown
Jack
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas
The Amarillo region shows scattered high thin clouds and a mild warming trend this afternoon with continued mild conditions tonight and Tuesday. Strong southwesterly winds are expected Tuesday, with highs around 67 this afternoon and 70 tomorrow. lows near 31 tonight.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Southwest
Dallas Tops List of Cities with Pure American Speech
New York ranked 13th as the Lin guaphone Institute of America released a poll showing Dallas at number one for the most perfect American speech due to its large multilingual population. Los Angeles, Chicago, Mason City, Atlanta, New Orleans, Ashtabula, Providence and Washington followed.
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New York
U.P
Dallas
Linguaphone Institute of America
New York City
Max Scherover
United States
Los Angeles
Chicago
Ashtabula, C
Providence
R. I
Washington, D. C
Bricks Fly at Tennessee Clothing Plant Strike
In Dickson on February 17 a clash erupted as more than 100 workers and struck women faced 16 truck drivers and officers trying to enter the Henry I Siegel Manufacturing Company plant. The one hour melee left at least three injured before a U.S. marshal deputy and 20 state patrols halted the violence.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Mob removes prisoner Willie Earle in Pickens County
A mob attacked the Pickens County jail at dawn and moved Willie Earle 25 of Greenville from custody. His body was found later in Greenville County with stab wounds and a shotgun wound to the head. Governor Thurmond ordered state police aid to local officers in pursuing those responsible.
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Pickens
S. C
Willie Earle
Greenville
Pickens County
Greenville County
J. Ed Gilstrap
J. O. Turner
Gilstrap
Columbia
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina Constabulary
Tax Slash Hearings Delayed by Knutson
Congress postpones consideration of tax cuts as Knutson delays hearings on his 20 percent across the board income tax cut plan. Senate prompts constitutional tenure limit debate while unions face calls to curb powerful industries. Taft questions the size of a six billion budget cut.
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Congress
Knutson
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wiley
Wisconsin
Senate Committee
Senate
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Rolla Campbell
Huntington
W. V
Island Creek Coal Co
House Labor Committee
Campbell
Nixon
California
Republican
Taft
Ohio
U S Radio Post To Russians Stresses Truthful Life In America
The State Department launches the first daily Russian language broadcast from the United States to the Soviet Union. From New York the hour long program explains life in America, federal state relations since 1776, and current issues with music and news summaries. It stresses the broadcasts will present only pure un adulterated truth.
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Washington
U.P
New York
Slushaite
Peredachy Golos
Soedinennykh Statov Ameriki
Soviet Union
United States
United States of America
State Department
Amarillo
Moscow
Munich
Germany
Moscow- Leningrad
America
Turkey
U. S
England
Union
South
Hospital Letter Wins The Globe's Letter Contest
The Globe Amarillo announces D. D. Smith's letter on hospital expansion as last week's top commentary and $10 prize winner. It invites entries from adults or students up to 500 words on platform topics with payments of $2 per published letter and a weekly cycle through several weeks.
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The
Globe
Judece
Crete
D. D. Smith
Amarillo
I Place Myself Above the Animals
D. D. Smith argues during a 10 day visit to Northwest Texas Hospital that Amarillo hospital facilities are inadequate with rooms housing two to four patients. He urges expansion despite costs, criticizing park spray ponds and livestock housing as misaligned priorities and warning that better convalescent care prevents epidemics.
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D. D. Smith
Northwest
Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Panhandle
UAW Chief Reuther Blames Thomas Actions In Wage Talks
Detroit February 17 Walter P Reuther head of the CIO United Auto Workers charges that vice president R J Thomas acted irresponsibly during the Allis Chalmers strike and jeopardized union efforts in wage and contract negotiations. The remark appears in letters to union members and to Thomas, inflaming a feud among top officials.
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Detroit
U.P
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
R. J. Thomas
Allis-Chalmers
Reuther
Thomas
U S Launches Shortwave Broadcasts to Russia
The United States starts an ambitious plan to counter Soviet censorship with daily Russian language shortwave broadcasts from noon CST aimed at giving the Russian people the unadulterated truth about America. The first transmission marks a broader State Department effort to pierce censorship and reach Moscow.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Moscow
Russia
State Department
Duel in the Sun Premiere Details Revealed Soon
City officials announce final premiere details for Duel in the Sun to be shown Monday at Paramount and State Theaters with eight stars in attendance. Jack King of Interstate Theaters will release times and ticket info after returning from Dallas where producers’ reps met. The Technicolor western stars Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck and others. King Vidor directs. filmed in Arizona.
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Hollywood
Paramount
Jack King
Dallas
Fort Worth
Texas
the Panhandle
Arizona
Postwar Army Top Heavy
Washington reports that peacetime Army has too many high ranking officers. There are 6489 colonels in a 1,070,000 enlisted force, vs 10,590 at wartime peak, a ratio of one colonel to 165 men versus 755 wartime. Officers outstrip needs with no demotion plan since mid 1946.
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Saies
Robinson Suspended For Missed Weight Offer
Ray Robinson of New York world welterweight champion was suspended 30 days and fined $500 by the New York State Athletic Commission for failure to report a $25,000 offer not to make weight for his title match with then champion Marty Servo last September.
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New York
Ray Robinson
New York State Athletic Commission
Marty Servo
Decision in John L. Lewis Appeal Delayed Again
Supreme Court delays ruling in the government contempt action against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers until at least March 3. The case was not decided today and the court has a two week recess before the next opinion day.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Lewis
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