Rumor of Sinatra Leaving Dorsey Aides New Columbia Deal
Reports say Frank Sinatra will soon part ways with Tommy Dorsey and sign a Columbia recording contract with a prominent network slot. Billboard charts list Sleepy Lagoon by Harry James and Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree by Glenn Miller among top records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly Bilgin
Emmett Rockwell
Frank Sinatra
Tommy Dorsey
Columbia
Harry James
Kay Kyser
Merry Macs
Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Dinah Shore
Jimmy Dorsey
Johnny Doughboy
Jersey Bounce
Music Machine
Ireland
Hlolse
War manpower ABCs outline war labor needs
Washington detail on how many workers and in which sectors are needed to sustain war production. It covers total labor force aims, numbers in the armed forces, women in war work, sources of new workers, leadership by Paul V. McNutt, and where to apply through the U S Employment Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Labor and Agriculture Departments
Selective Service
War Labor Board
United States Employment Service
Puzzler Horizontal and Vertical Word List Challenge
Puzzle lists across and down clues with numerous entries including famous actor, medical prep, compass point, metals symbol, and many others. Clues cover persons, objects, places, and abstract terms across a 1 2 grid style crossword style set.
War production limits heat small plants as war orders dwindle
Peter Edson explains war production cannot absorb every factory as materials and skilled labor run short. Many small firms face shutdowns due to WPB limits, with only a minority retooled or relocated into suitable war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EDSON
War Plants Corporation
War Production Board
SWPC
Army
Chambers of Commerce
WPB
Manners Quiz on Social Etiquette and Young Lovers
A series of etiquette questions and authoritative answers on courtship rules for young people. Topics include who speaks first, writing from army camp, parental objections to soldiers, telling a fiancé about new partners, and dating across cities. The piece ends with a “What Would You Do” scenario about giving a child a gift without the mother’s consent.
Old Caldwell home regains cheerful look as Hines buy
In Amarillo, the Caldwell house at 3201 Hughes Street is remodeled by new owners Mr and Mrs J B Hines who moved in after purchasing from the Harringtons. The piece notes local moving patterns and community life with dozens of brief mentions of residents at nearby streets and events.
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Caldwell
Hughes Street
Don Harringtons
J.B. Hines
West Twelfth Avenue
Jim Beal
Colorado
Denver
Colorado Springs
Cave of the Winds
Garden of Gods
Seven Falls
Will Rogers Shrine
B. M. Britain
Ong Street
Austin
D. O. Lafferty
Dallas
FE. P. Kile
Taylor Street
Navy Air Corps
Corpus Christi
M. G. Voris
W. C. Dine
van Buren Street
J. O. Dumas
Madison Street
Muskogee
Okla
Carl Seastrand
Margaret
Edna Marie Tipps
Theo Tipps
Oscola
Corp
George R. Pearce
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo
River Road
D. T. Pearce
North Taylor Street
Dean Robinson
Portales
N. M
Dorothy Jean Fox
Memphis
Tenn
Mary Lu Hamlett
Polk Street
Miss Fox
Patricia Jones
Harrison Street
Betty Ann Fine
Tyler Street
Donda Dodson
Betty Ruth Ravey
Mr. Prescott
Fillmore Street
B. V. Blackwell
Harison Street
Tribune
Kans
Buddy Wilcoxson
Childress
John J. Halley
Florida Street
W. H. Childers
Minnemucca
New
Lenora Savage
Lincoln Street
James A. Bush
The
Globe News and
Cunningham Flora Company
Bush
Tommie Hutchins
Vernon
West Fifteenth Avenue
Hutchins
Pantex
D. D. Woodall
West Sixth Avenue
Durwood
Navy Hospital
C. E. Baker
Pierce Street
Roy Wadsworth
Houston
George Baker
W. B. Gunn
Nell
Arch Road
Tres Ritos
W. W. Gibsons
Amarillo
Lily Sims
J. J. Murray
Gainesville
S. C. Houston
Stanton
Nona Ballew
Pioneer
Charles D'Spain
David
D'Spain
H.R. Owens
J. N. Benesch
Forest Street
Byrd VanNoy
Benesch
Frank Downs
Belmont Apartments
Guy Bennett
Rex
North East
Sixth Avenue
Mountains
Arkansas
Dorothy Jean Cody
North
R. S. Vail
Eleventh Avenue
Lubbock
A. B. Ferguson
Pioneer Hotel
Carlsbad
Bobbie Vance
Hammond
Ind
H. H. Hutson
Mary Young
Polk
Buying Bonds to Fund a World Tour in 1952
A humorous piece urges citizens to reinvest War and Defense Bonds, imagining lavish tours and postwar travel. It jabs at consumer dreams from sugar to white wall tires, then pivots to fantasies of touring Europe and Asia, including a satirical Tokyo visit, to show how bonds finance postwar leisure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
United States
America First Committee
Washington
Yellowstone Park
Japan
Chicago Tribune
Europe
Hambureg
Hitler
Goebbels
Quislin
Lidice
Czech
Roosevelt Hotel
Berlin
Kaiserhof
Doolittle Avenue
Tokio
MacArthur Hotel
Hotel
MacArthur
Tokyo
Hirohito
Russians trap German infantry division on unknown front
United Press reports entrapment of a German infantry division on an unidentified sector with German losses around 6,000. The German communique cites the double battle of Bialystok and Minsk and notes 323,898 Russians captured or affected. Roosevelt seeks 4.77 billion dollars for the War Department. Iceland approves US forces occupation. Harry Bridges proclaims deportation impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Bialystok
Minsk
Roosevelt
Congress
War Department
Iceland
Sympathy by Dale Carnegie in Chile Shows Power of Kindness
A Chilean reader Werner G Holzbeck recounts a railway mishap near Santiago. He describes a delayed train, a strict controller, and how polite sympathy earned him upgrades and comfort, illustrating Carnegie’s principle that the world yearns for sympathy and appreciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Carnegie
Chile
Werner G Holzbeck
Casilla Santiago
Santiago
Liolleo
Carnegie
Maccer
Control Beccause
Attu Kiska Agattu Fortifications Rise in War News
The column notes Japan fortifying Attu Agattu and Kiska as submarine bases to threaten Russian trade and cut sea routes, while warning against overestimating their military value. It also reports on Leon Henderson price controls, farm protests, and a sugar shortage correction from Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Mallon
Washington
Japan
Russia
Ogawa
Manchuria
Aleutian
Attu
Agattu
Kiska
Petropavlovsk
Kani- Mallon Chatka Peninsula
Siberia
Vladivostok
Alaska
Pacific
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Pepper
Florida
Connally
Texas
Agriculture
Wickard
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
Farm Bureau
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Skylark
Idaho
Jersey
ABC
Jack Stinnett
Donald Nelson
Tin Can
Roo
Esther
Guinea
Virginia
Vvay
House of Commons
Skinner
T. Ela
Peter Edson
Wendell Willkie
Soldier Boys
Charlie Austin
Julian Boulevard
C. E. Weymouth
O. B. Jacksons
Plainview
Olive Childers
Red Cross Motor Corps
Peacock Beauty
Lone Star
Fisk Building
State of
Texas, Ga
Texas, Ky
Texas City
Ill
Tex
Texas Creek
Colo
Texas Junction
Simon Bolivar
Elizabeth Waugh
10Th Ave
Bruce Campbell
J. P. Moore
E. C. Ochsner
David W. Britain, Jr
Novus Livingston
William
Boyce C. B. Rittenberry
Charles J. Grant
Charles and
Richard
Fl Paso
Grant
J. W. Cheney
Ed M. Watson
Tohoka
Wayne Prescott
Betty Jane Long
New Leon Theater
Betty Jane
Red Cross
New York
Georgia
Riddle
Harry Bridges
West Coast
Ruscee
Britain
Normandie
Sugarland
Galveston
Orange
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