Compromise Talk Aims to Extend 90 Percent Parity
Washington insiders say House members seek a one year extension of the 90 per cent parity rule on major crops despite Eisenhower resistance. The issue follows Senate approval of Ezra Taft Benson's flexible price support plan with leaders debating a political compromise to ease farm policy for another year.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Capitol Hill
House
Congress
Eisenhower
White House
Tombstone inscriptions and their stories from stone
Aunt’s death prompts inscription ideas as author recalls Stories in Stone by Dr. Charles J. Wallis and cites humorous and pointed epitaphs from 18th and 19th century stones. The piece suggests a Connecticut grave marker with the succinct inscription Well done.
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Stone
Charles J. Wallis
Kenks College
Upstate New York
Dr. Wallis
Oxford University Press
Connecticut
Ah Wilderness tribute on Boston Arts Festival program
Eugene O Neill memory honored with Ah Wilderness in Boston Common June 16 to 18 starring Gene Lockhart. Philadelphia Playhouse in the Park to present the same play the following week as part of a 13 week season with directors Morton da Costa Martin Ritt and Albert Marre. O Neill widow cooperates with festival paying tribute to modern New England contributions in theater music literature and dance.
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Boston
Eugene O'Neill
Gene Lockhart
Playhouse In the Park
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Samuel M. Handelsman
Theron Bamberger
Morton da Coste
Martin Ritt
Albert Marre
O'Neill
New England
Boston Common
Telling Me Atom Research In Infancy Say Scientists
Fragmented OCR text reports varied items from Pacific events to local politics and consumer trends. It mentions Merrick residents complaining about tap water tasting like beer, a Tennessee mayoral race with voting oddities, and England's cheese and cracker sales rising as TV snack popularity grows.
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Pacific
Sails and Signals of a Floating Telephone Chief
Mrs. Helton Reynolds, grandmother and chief operator of a 90 line floating switchboard aboard the liner United States, spends most trips at sea and describes life aboard. She notes the board keeps busy as ships approach land and that storms can flood the system with signals from empty cabins.
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Vivian Sande
United Press
New York
High Sea
Helton Reynolds
United States
Raynolds
James Ferley
Margaret Truman
Chief of Mighty Cannibal Tribe Demands TV Conie
The chief orders a trusted operative to capture a television comedian at all costs, driven by a strange craving for a ham sandwich. Jock Meveth, spurred by reckless love, sends a five word telegram to his sweetheart in Aberdeen, twenty miles away, proposing something unclear.
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Jock Mevetgh
Aberdeen
Birthday Blurbs and Historic Queries From a Fragmented Page
A collage of trivia and notices asking Who was all things to all men in the Bible, who followed Wordsworth as poet laureate, and meanings of musical terms, plus birthday mentions for Harry Truman and other figures, with brief biographical prompts and dated allusions.
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New York
Marion Brando
Marilyn Monroe
Joan Fontaine
Rebecca
Peggy Wood
Mama
Miss Wood
Miss W
Miss Fontaine
Marie Wilson
Hollywood
William Wordsworth
England
Punjab
President Changes Subject On TVA Topic At White House Meet
Washington report describes a Tennessee Valley delegation pressing for Gordon Clapp’s TVA reappointment. President Eisenhower deflected, praising Bob Weyland briefly, then pivoted to broader TVA views, stressing state and local control and a local partnership as preferred solutions.
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Washington
TVA
Drew Pearson
Tennessee Valley
White House
Jere Cooper
Tennessee
Eisenhower
Gordon Clapp
Cooper
Percy Prient
Clapp
Joe Evins
Tom Abernethy
Mississippi
Henderson Lanham
Georgia
Ine
Jamie Whitten
Bob Weyland
Tennessee University
Bob Neyland
Jeter
Corps of
Egineers
Bob
Tice
Ochsner Links Cigarettes to Lung Cancer in TV Broadcast
Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane recounts a 1950 Denver cancer conference analysis showing rising lung cancer with cigarette use. He notes AP recall backlash, cites international studies from Holland to England, and warns early smoking starts raise risks. non inhalers face lip and mouth cancers.
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Alton Ochsner
Tulane University
Associated Press
Denver
Dr. Ochsner
United States
Ochsner
Washington University
St. Louis
Holland
Denmark
England
Questions and Answers on Mountains and Veto Powers
The set asks about mountain systems and unemployment benefits. It notes the Uintas belong to the Rocky Mountain system and that the Uintas are the highest mountains running east to west in the United States. It states Wisconsin has the maximum unemployment compensation at thirty three dollars weekly. It explains that when a president vetoes a bill he must send a message to Congress stating his reasons.
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Eisenhower
Congress
United States
House
Daniel A A. Reed
New York
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Finance Committee
Ava Gardner
Jackie Gleason
Marlon Brando
Butler
Lauren Bacall
Uintas
Wisconsin
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Mirna Loy
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Vanessa Brown
Humphrey Bogart
el Morocco
Margie Hart
Mary Martin
Macdonald Carey
Springdale
Ohio
Jane Smith
By Erich Brandeis
Cooperatown
N. Y
Susannah Ensign
James Ewing
Knight's Corner Burying Ground
Pelham, Tass
Warren Gibbs
Mary Felton
Wm. Gibbs
Jones Beach Marine Theater
Sume
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Hippodrome
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Rattle
Guy Lombardo
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Jones Beach
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