Local Music News and Social Highlights from Amarillo
Ace Estes reports Bob Sylvester in Downbeat full page ad and notes his rise from $30 weekly pay to a leading musician. St. Patrick's dance at the Nat, Dolly Lynch plugs Sinister House at the High School Auditorium, and Theta Chi Theta elections. Many society events, theatre, and campus happenings across Amarillo with families, clubs, and musicians featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ace Estes
Bob Sylvester
Downbeat
Sylvester
el Taos
Canyon Highway
Clyde Campf
Ace
Bob
Jack Lloyd
Houston
New Orleans
St. Louis
Wilson Forister
Howard Forister
Big Spring
Score
Wilson
Samweston
Louise Elliott
Dorothy Ann Dooley
Roy Snodgrass
Gene Fleming
Theta Chi Theta Fraternity
Archie Woodlief
Jack Hays
Charlie Harper
Wayne Byers
Horace Watkins
Joe Buzze
Amarillo Country Club
John C. Fain
Stanley Marsh, Jr
John Ballard
Dawn Adkins
Lawrence Hagg
George Tucker
Jack Ellis
George Cultra
R. K. Morrison, Jr
M. T. Johnsson
L. K. Patton
Bill Honey
Carbonic
Ovella Aishman
Follies
Debettes
Herring Hotel
Martha Nell Stack
Hollywood
Faye Nicklaus
Betty Caldwell
Vesta O'Dell
Jim Jackson
Amarillo College Musicians
Texas Federation of Music
Lubbock
Panhellenic Council Athletic Committee
Alpha Kappa Chapter
Nu Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Government and politics quotes sweep the headlines
A collection of remarks from public figures spans topics from Puerto Rico governance to democracy’s renewal. Includes quotes from Guy J. Swope on governors, Gabriel Pascal on Shaw, Chase Clark on economy, R M Evans on farm labor costs, and George Cutten likening democracy to daily manna.
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Guy J. Swope
Puerto Rico
Cardiff Wartime Dispatch Before Cardiff Bombing
In Cardiff Wales Editor Ernie Pyle notes the city’s large stadium and defenses as he tours the area before heavy bombing. He observes a mix of modern parks clean streets and bicycles, mentions Welsh coal mining and population centers like Newport, and details street shelters and urban layout amid wartime readiness.
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Cardiff
Wales
Britain
Newport
What Are Vitamins Anyway What Are Vitamins Anyway
The piece explains vitamins as organic compounds in foods that aid absorption and nourishment. It notes they are not minerals or animals and cannot be seen or weighed, yet are essential for health. It traces discovery, understanding, and ongoing research, stressing education in home defense.
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Ted
Today's puzzler horizontal and vertical clues
A crossword style list of numbered hints for across and down entries including map references, measurements, verbs adjectives and items such as bronze cudgel bed and pocket knife clues with answers implied by cross letters and themed vocabulary across the puzzle grid.
Gardening for Happiness: All-America vegetables for 1941
Henry Pree outlines a family friendly garden plan with long north south rows, soil prep and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. He highlights All-American Selection 1941 varieties like Sweet Banana Pepper Yankee Hybrid Squash Victor Tomato Allegheny Hybrid Sweet Corn Tender Pod Bush Bean Honey Gold Cantaloupe Cos-Type Bavarian Endive and Spancross Hybrid Sweet Corn with notes on suitability and cultivation. Next: Latest in flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Pree
Canada
Connecticut
Victor
Allegheny
Public opinion split 56 27 on lease-lead bill polls
Gallup finds 56 percent definitely favoring the lease lead bill and 27 percent opposed as Senate passes the measure. Over four surveys from Feb 1 to Mar 8 public sentiment shows gains for passage and a rise in definite opposition, with qualified opinions shrinking.
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George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton
N. J
Senate
Institute
Congress
Cleveland
England
Roosevelt creates office of emergency management
The February 25 letter to William H. McReynolds outfits an old bureau with power to coordinate defense funds and personnel. A new policy commission is planned alongside Knudsen and Hilman to handle production and lend lease decisions. The piece mocks smear tactics and defends tempering criticism of administration policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William H. McReynolds
Office of Emergency Management
McReynolds
O. M
Defense Health Bureau
Defense
McReynolds-Roosevelt
Knudsen
Hilman
FDR
Manners Quiz On Social Etiquette Answers And Context
A reader questions polite conduct in public and private spaces. The piece discusses offering seating on transit, sharing near a seat, avoiding full names in overheard conversations, and proper telephone etiquette when a married woman calls a friend and a servant answers. It concludes with a quoted political remark by Senator Sheridan Downey.
Penney story mirrors old time minister father lessons
A Callaway County Baptist minister made a boy learn responsibility by requiring him to earn his own clothes. J C Penney grew from that lesson into a founder of 1554 stores, starting with chores and later buying pigs to build capital. Penney credits self reliance to his father’s tough approach.
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Callaway County
Penney
Jim
J. C. Penney
Wyoming
Easter Sunday at West Point satire on murder plays
The piece reviews West Point's Easter Sunday program featuring Arsenic and Old Lace and Life With Father, noting the Gothic humor of mass murder on stage and comparing the plays to classical catharsis. It sketches broader reflections on theater, realism, burlesque, and cultural shifts in taste amid wartime era sensibilities.
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National Broadcasting System
Maureen Trolinger
Lloyd Boxwell
Eddie Deus
Lloyd Snyder
Monterrey
Denver
Kay Frances
Dorothy Morgan
Pi Omega
West Texas
Alpha Delta
Herbie
Clovis
Edward G. Robinson
Herman Wright
Houston
Ernestine Ballard
Virginia Bussey
Evelyn Wallace
Martha Cox
Mary Edna Alford
Dorothy Hoppin
J. B. L. Club
West Point
Howard Lindsay
Russel Crouse
Aristotle
New York
Owen Davis
Mrs. North
Richard Lockridge
Damon Runyon
Miner's Bowery Theater
Mure
Messrs
Crouse and
Lindsay
Rabelais
Somerset Maugham
Elliot Paul
Mickey Finn
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Ise
York
Bill
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Jean Ravey
Jean Tomberlin
Katie Heket
Connie Roberts
Mildred Latham
Wilma Redus
Florence Gristy
Katherine Kirk
Horace Wilson
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Paramount
Art Wagoner
C. G. Feierabend
Maurice Dye
Kathryn Harrison
Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Mary Holman
Junior Philharmonic
Kathryn Roach
Dorothy Neuhardt
Texas Tech
Amarillo College
Bettie Jean Mead
LaGioconda
Gabriel Pascal
George Bernard Shaw
The
U. S
Chase Clark
Idaho
R. M. Evans
AAA
George Cutten
Colgate University
Ernie Pyle
Hitler
Daniel Fisenberg
By Sigrid Arne
American Republic
School of Whales
Vascode
Kim
U.S.A
Panama Canal
Atlantic
PHE Gallup
Europe
Cobeke
Paul Mallon
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Ickes
Wheeler
Bennett Clark
Hiram Johnson
Holman
Germany
Robert la Follette
LaFollette
Ralph Smith
Mrs. Jones
Sheridan Downey
California
Dale Carnegie
By Edwin C. Hill
Bob Chandler
Looney
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Ezra Pound
Marinetti
A. L. Wirin
Civil Liberties Union
Reinhold Niebuhr
Union Theological Seminary
Admiral Nomura
U. 6
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