Christmas Card Boom Hits Amarillo in 1948
In Amarillo 1948 Christmas business surges with heavy card purchases. Designers debut local flavor cards with Panhandle themes and festive lyrics. Notable trends include personalized engravings, masterworks reproductions, and cards for friends, family, and even service workers.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Natonal Gallery of Art
Raphael
Renoir
Salvador Dall
Pablo Picasso
Christmas Greeting From Outpost Town
A holiday message from a distant town wishes recipients a blessed season with prayers for greenery and grace.
Atom Targets Ruined Forever
Dr. David Bradley, a radiological monitor at the 1946 Bikini tests, says areas poisoned by underwater atomic blasts remain unlivable for eternity. He cites contamination of ships and cities and notes decontamination of large structures is practically impossible. Bradley discusses findings in a book No Place To Hide published today.
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Washington
David Bradley
Bradley
Hiroshima
Bikini
Plane crash kills stunt star and pilot near Dallas
Miss Louise Fernandez, 44, a Hollywood stunt performer, and pilot John Anderson, 25, died when their plane crashed in a ploughed field near Second Avenue Airport southeast of Dallas after a attempted upside down roll from 150 feet. Miss Thompson, flying school owner, said the roll failed as the wing struck the ground.
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Dallas
Hollywood
Louise Fernandez
Second Avenue
John Anderson
Miss Fernandez
Rubye Thompson
Thompson
Anderson
Miss Thompson
Espertisement
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Hermans
In Cleveland Fred Herman a 36 year old landscape gardener paced outside the maternity ward as 22 percent of his last 12 years of fathering resulted in five births. Reports swung between boy girl boy girl with his nerves and excitement growing as he jokes about needing a new job.
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Cleveland
Fred Hermans
Fred
Chorus From Panhandle to Sing Handel Oratorio
A chorus of 75 voices joins the Amarillo group for the December 12 presentation of Handel's oratorio. Other choirs from the Panhandle area participate in the event.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
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Amarillo College
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