All Americans Affected by Foreign Trade Reach
Editorial notes Harper's Magazine article based on Library of Congress study for Rep Merrill of Indiana showing inland districts like Evansville benefit from foreign trade. It links tariffs and currency controls to farm and factory jobs, exports of wheat soybeans tobacco dairy products and refrigerators, auto assembly and other industries, and argues inland districts gain from expanding trade.
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Harper's Magazine
Carroll Kilpatrick
Library of Congress
Legislative Reference Service
Merrill
Indiana
Evansville
Kilpatrick
United States
Mieten Y
Ondine and The Winner in Broadway Playwrights lineup
The Playwrights stage two new works this week with Ondine Maurice Valency’s French Gireudoux adaptation featuring Audrey Hepburn in a lavish production. The Winner by Elmer Rice as a flawed farce with a cigarette girl heroine and a court fight over an estate. Hepburn’s charm boosts Ondine though Mel Ferrer lacks romantic casting. critics note strong supporting turns and stunning design by Larkin Whorf.
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Elmer Rice
Ondine
Maurice Valency
Jean Gireudoux
Audrey Hepburn
Giraudoux
Hepburn
Broadway
Knight
Mel Ferrer
Peter Larkin
Richard Whorf
Alfred Lunt
John Alexander
Edith King
Alan Hewitt
Lloyd Gough
Marian Seldes
Robert Middleton
William Podmore
William le Massena
Rice
Snake bite story sparks Florida tall tale talk
A humorous clipping describes a 17 month old boy biting a snake and the snake dying, with debate over whether the tail was swallowed. The piece then mocks Florida tourist tales about sea monsters and giant reptiles, noting locals doubt visitors from New York and small towns. It pokes fun at exaggerated Florida wildlife myths.
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Shreveport
Florida
New York City
Everglades Legend of a 60 Foot Serpent Tale
Erich Brandeis recounts Shark and Harney Rivers legends of a colossal alligator or serpent terrorizing Cape Sable Indians. Buster Farrel tracks a trail, fires, and finds a massive jawsed carcass after buzzards reveal the size. A later resort anecdote adds a bold breakfast-moment with a 150 pound woman in swimsuit and mink.
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Shark
Harney
Everglades
Buster
Oscar Derby goes modern in Hollywood TV style show
Hollywood reports a bold shift for the Oscars as NBC plans a star studded TV program with on stage cameras clips for technical awards and production numbers. The producer says 50 million home viewers will see the ceremony March 25 with glamour girls and revolving stages. A Phoenix man adopts the stage name Lank Rivers to promote himself via ads, hoping for film work.
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Isd4
Motion Picture Academy
Hollywood
Academy
Pantages
Bill Kayden
NBC
Kayden
Paramount
MOM
Phoenix
Ariz
Lank Rivers
National Hair-Do Week Highlighted by Mobile Coif Trend
Washington dispatch notes National Hair-Do Week and the rise of the mobile coif as a style interpretation for individual faces. Beauty operators reported over 215000 free fixes for hospital, old folk homes, and asylums patients during the week, while lamenting a shortage of hairdressers. The column humorously reflects on household chaos from constant hair fashion activity and jokes about a potential law to regulate bobby pins.
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Philip Parker
Gary
Ind
Parker
Marcel
First Antarctic Pole Quest and Shackleton Ad Read
In 1900 Robert F. Scott led expeditions toward the South Pole and failed to reach it, while Amundsen beat him in 1912. Shackleton recruited crews via a London Times ad promising danger, harsh conditions, and honor for success, contrasted with today’s TV ad chatter.
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Robert F. Scott
Antarctic
South Pole
Amundsen
Sir Ernest Shackleton
London Times
Sir E. Shackleton
Quick Knowledge Quiz From A Curious Era
A mixed trivia page asks about Aristophanes, a brainless headstand joke, Joseph Zangara, a President sending troops to protect mails, prestissimo in music, historic dates from 1750 to 1950, and a rising star from Santa Fe. It includes biographical notes, a historical explorer who stopped the Trent, literary puzzles, language notes, and rapid-fire Q A summaries.
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Aristophanes
Joseph Zangara
Trilingis
Prestissimo
Washington split seen in Dulles Knowland clash
Washington senator Knowland challenges Secretary of State Dulles during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, highlighting a GOP divide between isolationists and internationalists. Pearson notes Eisenhower must choose a side to prevent extremists from gaining control amid past Republican splits and rising tensions within the party.
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Knowland
Dulles
Drew Pearson
Washington
John Foster Dulles
Senate Foreign. ‘Relations Committee
Secretary of State
Eisenshower
Senate
William Knowland
California
McCarthy
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Hig
Dulles-Knowland
State Department
London
Henry L. Stimson
United States
Stimson
Herbert Hoover
White House
GOP
Manchuria
Stemson
Asia
Pacific
Repulican
Better Citizens From Small Schools, Letter to the Editor
Baytown March 4 1954 a Baytown Sun letter argues against school merger claiming small schools produce better citizens and noting notable alumni from smaller classes. The writer urges constructive youth work during merger debates and warns against pressuring schools while criticizing unscrupulous efforts to push merger.
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Baytown
Houston
Chicago
United States
A. A. Draeger
Kloh
Meter
Sun
Cedar Bayou School
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