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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1948
Page
7
A wealthy woman and her husband, Burt Lancaster, are drawn into an underworld plot sparked by his drugstore fortune and narcotics dealings. The film uses flashbacks and a taped telephone chain to reveal motive and misfortune, culminating in a tense final twist.
A Colloquial appraisal notes Melchior’s singing as the film’s highlight while lampooning a thin plot about a girl boarding her father’s boat. Jane Powell is praised as endearingly cute. the article lightly critiques character dynamics and desires more fight scenes.
In Houston on November 11, W L Clayton former Under Secretary of State and a noted cotton financier contradicted Wall Street by saying the Truman administration and Democratic Congress would boost business. He praised single party responsibility and dismissed rumors about becoming Secretary of State while expressing a wish to remain in Houston.
A plane plunges into a basin Thursday night killing eight people. The sole survivor swam ashore. John Matthew Connor of Douglas is among the dead. The aircraft sent a fuel exhaustion message before going down near the Isle of Man.
Dr. W F Libby of the University of Chicago cites tritium as a powerful tracer atom to study odor behavior in the body and the flow of underground rivers. He notes its extreme dilution possible, with one gram enough for an entire lake, and that tritium is produced in Oak Ridge's AEC reactor.
Standard Oil Company of California announced a two tenths of a cent per gallon increase in tank wagon prices for automotive gasoline effective Friday morning. Stations may add their own boost resulting in local price variance. Diesel heating oil and fuel oil also rise to cover wage and supply costs.
More than 534000 business concerns or one sixth of all firms operate in automotive fields across the United States reflecting the sector’s size and impact on the economy.
A 68 year old Italian woman caused two hours of flight delays at Kansas City airports after refusing to reboard a Viking Airline flight to Los Angeles and then boarding a Trans World Airlines plane without tickets. Police escorted her to headquarters while officials contacted her son in California for guidance.
Sixty novices will be initiated at 5 pm Friday after a 3 pm performance by Eduardo Martinez and his Pan American Troubadours in the Scottish Rite Temple. Abe Swanson calls the floor show top notch with 15 acts and a fine orchestra before Director Charles McAden leads the degree team of Bedouins. Evelyn Oppenheimer reviews Tomorrow Will be Better at 8 pm in the Country Club lounge. free for Shrine ladies.
Eight year old Jack Hodges was returned to Wichita Falls with his father after being taken Wednesday from a public school and driven to Walters Oklahoma. His mother Mrs Margaret Hodges of Atlanta along with two Atlanta cab drivers faced kidnapping charges. Extradition proceedings were to start Friday to return the mother to Wichita Falls. An examining trial for the two taxi drivers was set for Friday morning.
David H. Rietz warned at Wilmington College that in 50 years industry will draw raw materials from the ocean and atomic energy will serve peacefully within 20 years. He noted a small atomic plant in Schenectady and predicted practical industrial use of atomic energy within two decades.
A downtown Sioux City display Santa Claus drew complaints from residents for making noise until about 10 thirty or 11 p m crowding put a burden on late night, with a parent noting most children should be in bed by 9 pm.
The piece notes that talking while fishing is harmless to the fish as long as no vibrations disturb the water. It emphasizes waterborne ripples as the only influence on fish behavior, suggesting anglers can converse freely without attracting attention from their quarry.
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