Bill De Sautell News and Campus Happenings
Amarillo notes feature upcoming events at the Paramount Theater and Nat with Wills Texas Playboys on March 27 and Ruth Chatterton leading a world premiere March 29. Local university items report Fraternity Night moved to the college gym with a 35 cent tariff, district one act win by Amarillo College Players, and WPA dance class efforts with student attendance.
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Tobacco Road
Paramount Theater
Wills
Bill
Fourth Street
San Antonio
Galveston
Sam Jacobson
Bob Bell
Kappas
API
Amarillo College
Hillsboro
Doris Gale Crownover
Gib Howard
Mae Jo Winn
Bill Browder
DeWitt Drury
Mary Stack
Donald Clark
Gardening For Happiness Practical guide to building a garden pool
Henry Pree outlines a practical series segment on garden pools describing origin, design factors, and construction steps. It covers sizing, coping options, bottom and wall thickness, reinforcement, excavation details, plumbing, concrete mixing and curing times, and cautions on materials before noting the next topic Summer Blooming Bulbs.
Pub crawl with longshoremen in wartime Shirehampton
ERNIE PYLE reports in Shirehampton on longshoremen sharing fears of bombing and war fatigue through a night of beer and stories. He meets Nobby Clark and Tom Woolacombe families, hearing tales of loss, shelters, bombs, and a stubborn belief that war must be fought on battlefields rather than civilians' doors.
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Ernie Pyle
Shirehampton
Eng
Obedience and Temptation Across Faithful Thoughts
A compact meditation weaving scripture from Deuteronomy Matthew and a quotation by Matthew Henry. It contrasts diligence in keeping commandments with dangers of temptations seen in appealing but skin deep colors.
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Matthew Henry
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CLUES
Puzzle clues mix historic stage star hints with wordplay. Multiple entries reference theater names, grafted terms, and poetic forms, while others list common nouns for components of wood, chemistry, and daily life.
Debate on Hobbs bill taps national police powers
Dorothy Thompson analyzes the Forum of the Air discussion from Washington on the Hobbs bill to repeal a court ban on wiretapping. The debate weighs civil liberties versus policing waves and wires, with Hays and Presson opposing, Hobbs and Holtzoff defending.
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Dorothy Thompson
Washington
Theodore Granick
Congressman Hobbs
Holtzoff
Arthur Garfield Hays
Lee Presson
C. I.0
Hays
Mussolini and German troop movements reported to Africa
The column describes Hitler sending up to 12 000 troops by sea from Palermo and Naples to Africa with light tanks, a second larger unit following, totaling potentially 30 000 to 100 000. It notes British setbacks in Greece and Suez, Rhodes air mines, and Mussolini’s health and presence at the front. It also covers defense publicity changes and a Nazi agent indictment.
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Washington
Mussolini
Palermo
Naples
Africa
Hitler
Italy
Mediterranean Sea
Tripoli
Greece
Rhodes
Suez Canal
Suez
Near East
Il Duce
Brenner Pass
Knudsen
Stettinus
Production Management
Defense Publicity Organization
Office of Emergency Management
Defense
Robert Horton
Lowell Mellett
OPM
The
Priorities Board
Horton
OEM
Roosevelt
William H. McReynolds
Manfred Zapp
Trans-Ocean News Service
Dies Committee
Manners Quiz From A Vintage Social Etiquette Page
A 1920s etiquette quiz asks behavior in social set pieces. It covers offering help to a struggling stranger, commenting on a friend’s haircut, praising appearance, discussing unread books, and reading a magazine during conversation, plus dinner invitation guidance and a Holmes Roosevelt quotation on wiretapping.
Guy Vaughan the orphan boy who rose through study
This column profiles Guy W. Vaughan born in Bayshore Long Island who, as an orphan at fourteen, rose from a two dollar weekly factory job to become a leading aviation executive. He studied by lunch box light, earned mechanical draftsman and engineering certificates, then joined Wright Aero nautical and later Curtiss-Wright, becoming president in 1935 and advancing aviation hardware and government manufacturing. His life emphasizes the value of disciplined study and time.
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Alice
Woolacombe
Eileen
Violet
Woolacombes
Bayshore
Long Island
New York
Guy W. Vaughan
Guy
New Rochelle
Guy Vaughan
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Curtiss
D Annunzio the fiery poet warrior and showman
March twelfth marks the birth of Gabriel D Annunzio a genius whose life spanned poetry drama and daring feats His career included flying in war raids seizing Dalmatian coast territory and shaping Italian postwar pride Mus solini paid him vast sums and Italy celebrated his grand theatrical persona at his villa Vittoriale a temple of art and war
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Italy
Gabriel D'Annunzio
Adam
Gabriel D’annunzio
Lake Garda
la Gaconda
St. Sebastian
Eleanora Duse
D’'Annunzio
Austria
Beffi de Buccardi
Fium
D’annunzio
Mussolini
Villa
Vittoriale
the Christ
Confucius
Buddha
D'Annunzio
Bella Italia
Getting Defense Jobs by Stinnett
An Army colonel explains how small manufacturers away from the coast can win defense contracts by pooling resources. A town with 22 plants found that collective arrangement created a capable belt line to produce guns, gun carriages, armor plate, and other defense items, attracting Army engineers. If reports confirm the plan, the town could secure contracts and jobs.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Army
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Catherine Manning
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Sonny Wegener
Billy Williford
Jack Triplett
Naomi Stroud
George McSpadden
Dora Kenyon
Frank Bonner
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E. C. Shearer
Henry Pree
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Nobby
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Tom
Anderson
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Star Chamber
Paul Mallon
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Dale Carnegie
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