Control boards take over 23 000 state wards care
The Youth Development Council and the Board for Hospitals and Special Schools assumed control of care for more than 23 000 wards from the former State Board of Control. Legislators pledged an extensive hospital and reform building program with improved staff and funding to support mental health and juvenile reform efforts.
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Opment Council
Walter Kerr
Board For Hospitals
Ments
Board of Control
Theater thrills recalled by peers at Mt. Kisco gathering
Gertrude Ederle and friends reminisce about their greatest theater thrills. Herman Levin cites Olivier in Oedipus Rex, Mary Martin in Leave It To Me, Deems Taylor recalls Jolson after Caruso, and Eleanor recalls the Aquacade at the New York World's Fair.
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Mt. Kisco
Metropolitan Opera House
Eleanor
Herman Levin
Lawrence Olivier
Jack O’brien
Associated Press
Texas
Mary Martin
Daddy
Deems Taylor
al Jolson
Caruso
Gertrude Hears the Crowd at A Swimmer’s Afterglow
Gertrude, a famed swimmer, finally tells Eleanor that she heard the crowd during a performance. She recalls a moment when something clicked inside her head and she listened, then cried for an hour, sensing the voices and signs around her.
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Gertrude
Eleanor
Trudy
Billy Rose
Questions and Answers from a World War II era quiz
A long reader Q A feature covers topics from aviation bomb drops in 1911 to food canning in wars. It includes biographies of Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand, Bach and Sunday, a primer on the Greek key pattern, and a tale of President Truman and Senator Morse visiting Leesburg with a mistaken grave marker.
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Tripoli
Paris
A. Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
Guards
Cyrano
Swift
Poe
M. Edmond Rostand
Rise of Capone and the Chicago Mob Chronicle
Lait recounts the birth of modern gangsterism led by Big Jim Colosimo in Chicago, with Johnny Torrio and Al Capone shaping a vast criminal network. Capone's rise, alliances across cities, and impact on crime history are traced to his imprisonment ending a volatile era.
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Big Jim Colosimo
Sicily
Chicago
Colosimo
Big Jim
Johnny Torrio
Torrio
al Capone
Brooklyn
Brown
St. Luke's Hospital
Johnny
New York
Italy
Capone
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Detroit
Miami
St. Louis
Kansas City
Cairo
New Orleans
West
Editor's Notebook: Texas Voter Groups Split Over Amendments
The article details how two major voter blocs were expected to back this year's constitutional amendments but clashed over the old age assistance measure. A Senate filibuster halted the pension plan, reducing elderly turnout. As the 21 district State Board of Education races loom, districts vary in interest and competitiveness, while a new secret ballot and double ballot-box system roll out.
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State Board of Education
House
Senate
Congress
State Board
Austin
Travis
Williamson
Bastrop
Burleson
Caldwell
Hays
Burnet
Blanco, Lee
Washington
Home Doctor Book booklet offer from American Information Bureau
Advertisement promotes a Home Doctor Book with health symptom and treatment guidance. It explains it is not a substitute for a doctor and is alphabetically organized for quick reference. Readers can order by sending 15 cents to American Information Bureau, 316 Eye Street NE, Washington DC.
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Bureau
Eye N. E
Washington
D. C
Austin American Information
Aanate
American Information Bureau
Eye Street
Washington, D. C
Truman Drives to Leesburg to Honor Oregon Senator Baker
President Truman visited the grave of Colonel Edward D. Baker in Lone Mountain Cemetery after Senator Morse of Oregon learned of the forgotten Civil War hero. Gen. Marshall had shown Lodge Baker's grave and urged action. The tale ties to Holmes’ wartime note of Baker’s burial journey.
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Gen. Marshall
Leesburg
Gen. Baker
Library of Congress
Col. Baker
Gen
Marshall
Sen. Morse
Washington
Sen. Baker
England
House of Representatives
Illinois
Oregon
US Senate
Massachusetts
George Marshall
Edward D
Baker
Truman
Senator Morse
Morse
Ball’s Bluff
Lone Mountain Cemetery
San Francisco
Oliver Wendell Holmes
West Coast
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