Editorials Runoff Absentee Voting Begins Monday
The article urges voters in the gubernatorial runoff between Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough to use absentee ballots starting Monday. It outlines in detail how Harris County residents can vote in person at the W. D. Miller office, or by mail with required poll tax and a 15 cent mailing fee, and notes not all ballots can be mailed to Baytown. It emphasizes civic duty and the value of the right to vote.
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Allan Shivers
Ralph Yarborough
W. D. Miller
Harris County
Miller
Houston
Baytown
Deer Park
Supreme Court
Pasadena
la Porte
Second Look at Fashion and Local Church News
A Baytown area column mixes fashion quips with parish life notes. The Presbyterian church plans a ground breaking and picnic for next Sunday on Market Street led by Rev. Ewing McPhail, with organizers urging mothers to bring meals for families and the pastor. The piece also flags Deer Park’s growth and legal moves to annex the Snell Refinery, plus regional migration pressures from La Porte and Baytown as Cedar Bayou Methodists celebrate mortgage burning and local towns brace for development.
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Baytown Presbyterians
Market Street
First Presbyterian Church
Ewing McPhail
Presbyterian Church
Cedar Bayou
Pasadena
Deer Park
Snell
Texas Supreme Court
Houston
San Jacinto Battleground
la Porte
Baytown
Moses and Heston See Changing Times From Sinai to Skies
The piece contrasts Moses climbing Sinai on foot with Charlton Heston flying to the summit for The Ten Commandments. It questions progress speed and comfort, laments erosion of hard work, and imagines a future of reduced human effort through machines and even mechanical love and marriage.
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Moses
Sinai
Charlton Heston
Cecil B. DeMille
Heston
Moscs
Albany
New York This News on ad agencies and shopper aisles
Cunningham and Walsh, a prominent New York ad agency, reveals a policy requiring creative staff to spend a week yearly learning about clients’ products in stores and service stations. The piece satirically critiques advertising culture and intrusive marketing tactics prevailing in Madison Avenue.
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Cunningham and Walsh
Dadison Avenue
Russell Jones
W. Veep
Indy
Stuyvesant Town
Manhattan
Mr. Jones
Veep
Midat
Gli
T Waa
New Yorker
Madison Avenue
Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow Bible Verse
A compact verse draws from Proverbs 27 7 urging humility since a day’s fate remains unknown. The line cautions against self praise for future events and emphasizes the limits of human foresight. The concise message resonates across generations.
Columns of satire and jests on ads and oddities
Mel Heimer notes the public’s demand for plain may be bent by critics, while C and W’s clever education in stores irks ad men. The piece riffs on attire, sleeves, and basic shopping, then pivots to quirky global glimpses from patcher Scotland to sea serpents and a snow white hen turning black.
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Hereford
England
Britisher Says So American Women's Hair Like Sheep
Washington dispatch reports Private Sidney Morris a Britisher at Fort Dix New Jersey who mocks American women’s hair comparing it to sheep wool He is a professional hair dresser by trade trained in England and once earned Third in a New York all American hair styling contest He jokes about Army life and his side business at Fort Dix while planning to return to his spaghetti duties.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Fort Dix
N.J
Sidney Morris
Jolly Old England
Morris
New York
Milady
Fifth Avenue
Army
Gleason Undergoes Minor Operation Sees Crowded Room
Jackie Gleason recently underwent a minor operation and was visited by many people. An exasperated nurse informed Guest Number 192 that Gleason had checked out of the hospital and gone home, noting he wasn’t feeling well.
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Jackie Gleason
Quick Knowledge Grab Bag Answers
A compilation of Q A style items covering aviation aileron inventor piano naming Irene Dunne married name Salvation Army Angel of Broadway ocean meaning high seas origins of terms and a mix of biographical notes referencing figures like the Wright brothers and Hitler era authors with scattered trivia and prompts to identify names and roles.
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Irene Dunne
Salvation Army
The
Broadway
High Seas
Wright Brothers
Francis Griffin
Reba Crawford
Hormay, Rausehning
Donald A. Williams
Senate Wives Denied Front Row in McCarthy Rile
Washington column reports a row over the family gallery front-row seating in the Senate. Rules allow only a senator’s wife in that row, yet three wives were barred while Mrs McCarthy and guests seated there, prompting controversy and reminders of past McCarthy investigations including Malmedy, Rosenberg, and State Department charges.
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Washington
Senate
Drew Pearson Washington
McCarthy
Senator McCarthy
James Diff
Pennsylvania
Pau Douglas
Illinois
William Fulbright
Arkansas
Constantine Brown
Washington Star
Ike
Joe Taken & Young Library
Senate Committee
State Department
Dean Acheson
Wheeling, W. V
Benton
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
annti-McCarthy
Justice Department
Bedell Smith
Eisenhower
Europe
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