Battle over Oscar tune The High and the Mighty lyrics
Hollywood reports a heated Oscar dispute after The High and the Mighty was ruled ineligible for its whistled tune. Dimitri Tiomkin fought to keep the song realigned as eligible, highlighting industry jealousy and the push toward film score songs becoming Oscar contenders.
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Sy Aline Mosby
Hollywood
Oscar
John Wayne
Dimitri Tiomkin
Tiomkin
Wayne
Warmer
Uranium Claim From McCain In San Jacinto County
W B McCain of Oakhurst Texas writes to The Baytown Sun arguing a large uranium deposit exists in San Jacinto and adjoining counties near Houston. He cites pitchblende in creek beds and monazite sands on his two acre lease, claims ore thicknesses and high concentrates, and urges readers to visit and verify his claims.
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Thar
Baytonian
San Jacinto County
Texas
Baytown
Thar Plains
San Jacinto
Houston
Moab
Utah
Ladejinsky Named Foreign Operations Land Reform Aide
Wolf Ladejinsky, ousted by the Agriculture Department as a security risk, was appointed to assist the foreign operations administration with land reform in Vietnam. Harold E. Stassen said Ladejinsky is eligible for security certification and will retain re employment rights at the Agriculture Department while serving in FDA readiness for use of his special qualifications. Benson and Adams discussed the case with the White House, with no final presidential action disclosed.
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Washington
Wolf Ladejinsky
Agriculture Department
Foreign Operations Administration
Viet Nam
Harold EK
Stassen
Ladejinsky
FDA
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
White House
James C. Hagerty
Benson
Sherman Adams
Hagerty
Adams
Eisenhower
Tokyo
Britain
Secretarial pioneer uses Bible system at Interior
Alene Peg Phillips, executive secretary to Secretary Douglas McKay, types with a custom Bible system and shorthand. A former Oregon Journal correspondent, she writes weekly columns from Washington on McKay and his circle, focusing on offhand details others ignore.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Alene Peg Phillips
Department of the Interior
Douglas McKay
Peg
Mule
The
Oregon Journal
Portland
Ore
Marian Vischer
Capital Times
Oregon
Mabel Meays
Four Fridays 13th On Same Calendar Plan Stirs Controversy
Honolulu report on a Hawaii engineer Wizard EB Edwards pushing a perpetual calendar to replace the Gregorian system. He seeks UN review and cites a World Calendar Association with a rival plan. Edwards insists his calendar keeps New Year’s Day and ends Black Fridays while adopting a fixed 12 month year with 81 day quarters. Nebraska note details student Jerry Peach releasing a helium balloon after a Nebraska Pittsburgh game that traveled 425 miles in under a day.
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Honolulu
Eb, Edwards
Hawaii
United Nations Action
Edwards
World Calendar Association
Dag Hammarskjold
Lincoln
Neh
Jerry Peach
University of Nebraska
Lester White
Farmer City
Britain pressured over SEATO teeth at Bangkok conference
United States aims to harden SEATO with a mobile striking force while Britain resists. Dulles and Eden face heavy preconference negotiations as London navigates a conflicting East Asia policy. Britain recognizes Red China but supports UN actions and Formosa defense, risking a diplomatic jam.
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Charles M. McCann
United Press
Great Britain
Bangkok
Thailand
John Foster Dulles
Seato' Organization
Southeast Asia
Washington
Britain
United States
Dulles
Anthony Eden
East Asia
Korea
United Nations
Anthony Nutting
Nutting
Formosa
London
China
Peiping
Red
Chou En-Lat
Chen
Chiang Kai-Shek
East Texas Broiler Market Ends Month Steady
The Texas & Pacific Railway monthly crop report says the East Texas broiler market ended the month steady to firm with prices about 20 cents per pound. It predicts steady to higher prices until May or June, noting production is near a limit for sustaining current price levels. December prices fell to 18 or 19 cents, below production costs.
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Dallas
Jan
Texas & Pacific Railway
East Texas
Sheriff Jess Sweeten Retirement Commemorative Postponed
ATHIENS Tex Jan special edition of the Athens Review commemorating Sheriff Jess Sweeten’s 29 years in Henderson County is postponed indefinitely. The paper regrets the decision but cites no alternative. The delay follows an incident when Sweeten and his successor J W Brown exchanged blows as Brown assumed duties. Termite mounds in tropical regions reach 12 feet and are built sturdy enough to bear a person standing on them.
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Athiens
Tex
Athens Review
Jess Sweeten
Henderson County
Sweeten
J. W. Brownlow
Tropics
College and Career Separates from Nelly de Grabs
A black wool knit sweater pairs with an orange-plaided snows flake wool tweed skirt. A centered tweed tie accents the spreadaway collar of the sweater.
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Nelly de Grabs
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