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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1942
Page
6
A compact newspaper notice describes John Steinbeck related founding dates February 20 1924 and publication details for Amarillo Texas. It lists The Globe News Publishing Co with Gene Howe as president and publisher and associated staff notes including McCarty as associate publisher. Circulation department contact is given.
The piece urges immediate civilian action in wartime, listing needed items such as scrap metal and rubber and urging thrift in driving and packing. It notes a possible sugar shortage relief but warns that scarcity remains until more ships return from the Far East with cargoes.
The piece argues a shift from 60,000 ton dreadnoughts to aircraft carriers as decisive in warfare. It notes land based planes breaking invading fleets and praises the navy decision while previewing a scene in a town under occupation with a staff of officers planning from the mayor’s palace.
Hollywood star James Cagney recalls his unmet ambitions to be a doctor and an artist while noting his enduring rise since 1929. He describes a New York upbringing in the Gas House District, early stage work with Max well Anderson, and his current favorite role as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He is 38, 5'9", 155 pounds, and favors a conservative style, gym workouts, and vegetables except spinach.
A review discusses George Palmer Putnam’s Wide Margins as a brisk autobiography of a publishing figure who shaped American letters and adventures. It also covers Napoleon’s 1812 invasion, noting similarities in routes and timing with Hitler’s Russia campaign and praising Eugene Tarle’s Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia 1812 for its Russian perspective and critical insight.
Hunter Dent faces Judge Elkhart after Tracy Hannings advises waiving preliminary hearing. Ballard’s possible connection to the 17 000 theft and the Bank messenger mystery rises as Hunter contemplates life in jail and the web of local finance implicated in the ordnance plant scandal.
In a tense scene Red Ballard banters with Hunter as she visits him in his apartment jail. They spar over the Ballard family’s sport of risk and a looming legal peril, while Hunter outlines Junior’s dangerous entanglement and a suspected money scheme. The sheriff plans to move Hunter to the hot-seat as the chapter ends with a dramatic threat.
The article recounts Nazi intimidation in Norway with arrests deemed unwarranted and officials facing pressure or threats. It notes Nazi attitudes amid population sympathy, a teacher resigning from a Nazi group after a Judas-for-silver message, and harassing mail to officials. It also discusses Harper’s Magazine analysis of trailer migrants, detailing the Tolan committee hearings on industrial migration, wartime displacement, and the shift of workers to mobile living for defense needs.
Margaret Kernodle recalls attending a wartime White House press conference with Mrs. Roosevelt. The article describes entry, security, and the Monroe room setting, the hostess’s poised manner, interactive questioning, and a gracious, musical goodbye as the session closes.
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