Dancing Shoes Tie Buddy Ebsen to Career
Hollywood columnist recounts Buddy Ebsen’s lifelong love of dancing and his antique brown and white dancing shoes. He recalls childhood training, vaudeville days, and rise to Broadway and Hollywood, noting the shoes symbolize his 20-year career and personal history.
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Hollywood
NEA
Jed Clam
New York
Wilma
Belleville
Ill
Southern Illinois Corn Belt
Orlando
Fla
Cavsthias the Nijinsky
Everglades
Dixie Four
Chicago
Atlantic City
Jed Clampett
Davy Crockett
Teri Thornton rises to fame through NBC Tonight exposure
Detroit singer Teri Thornton, after two years of recording, gains major recognition thanks to nationwide NBC Tonight Show exposure. She credits TV exposure and a redirected, more commercial style for her breakthrough, plans to stay in New York three years then move to California.
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Nea
Teri Thornton
Teri
Miss Thornton
Detroit
Woody Herman
Australia
Noth
California
Dick’s
Anita Bryant
Columbia
Peggy March
RCA
Patti Page
Mercury
Harry Simeone
Glen Campbell
Capitol
Jo Ann Castle
Dot
Jed Clampett
Simon Crum
Homer
Jethro
Chet Atkins
Spoken Arts
Robert Donat
Daedmon
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Folkways
Franz Werfel
Jacobowsky and
the Colonel
Dear Kathy Peterson on hand confidence and relaxation
A reader asks about large hands causing shyness. Kathy Peterson urges accepting oneself and practicing relaxed hand posture, using a mirror to compare tense versus relaxed positions and ignoring teasing.
Democratic president who died in office and female suffrage vote
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only Democratic president to die in office. Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the only woman in Congress to vote for women's suffrage.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Freckles Across and Down Puzzle Clues
A compact clue list with across and down entries covering aquatic carnivore food fish and other terms. Includes a mix of common words and named items, some with language notes and diacritical hints.
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New England
Switzerland
Latvia
India
Gertrude Berg May Star in Musical Comedy
Gertrude Berg plans a Broadway return in a musical comedy. She is in talks with Leonard Spigelgass and Theater Guild officials about a tune show following her current play Dear Me The Sky Is Falling.
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New York
Gertrude Berg
Comedienne
Leonard Spigelgass
Theater Guild
Spigelgass
Kaufman on a Bridge Hand and the Christmas Tree Effect
Oswald Jacoby explains how a good hand in bridge is revealed by facial reaction then a misplay. A player opens with spades, South overbids, and the slam collapses when West shows four trumps, leaving South to lament the wreck. If South had counted trumps earlier, he could have saved the hand through a sequence involving dummy and careful finesses.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
George S. Kaufman
South
North
West
East
Bridge bidding puzzle with South hand and four clubs
In a four club four level auction four clubs by partner after 34 double pass, South holds 44 YK I97T AQ86 and K743. If South passes and West doubles, what is the correct action after North and East pass.
Want to Play Better Bridge by Oswald Jacoby
The Herald offers Oswald Jacoby’s latest bridge book to help you win at bridge. Copy available at the Herald for 50 cents in person or 60 cents by mail.
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Oswald Jacoby
the Herald
Jacoby
Austin Daily Herald
Manners Keep Peaceful Neighborhood From Pets
A well-trained pet stirs up few neighborhood squabbles, illustrating how good manners reduce disputes and maintain harmony among residents.
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Masor
Charley
Pasco
Papa
Peru
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Miss Calhoon
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U.S. Air Force
Mariner
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Mr.worth
James Wright
James
Jimmy Wright
Muriel
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U.S
Pot, OF
Dprice
Gertrude May
Encyclopaedia Britannice
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Florida
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