First USO troupe heads to Korea with veteran entertainers
The first USO entertainment unit bound for Korea is composed mainly of World War II veterans. Led by Jack Powell, the eight performers include a girl singer Elaine Lewis who has toured in Burma, India, Carina, and Japan, plus an accordionist and a mistress of ceremonies. They must endure heat aboard ships and in mess halls during a three month tour and undergo typhoid and smallpox shots before departure.
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New York
USO
Korea
Ghrt
Janan
India
France
Jack Powell
Europe
Hapag
London
Elaine Lewis
England
Burma
Carina
Japan
Bridge lessons warn against ill advised doubles in high suit fits
The hands and bidding analysis warn that a double by the defense can backfire when an opponent has shown a long high suit and previous pass. The article recounts a bridge hand where a quick double led to success only after precise play, but cautions that a thoughtful decision to double hinges on the odds and potential score swing.
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South
West
Daily Crossword 12 Gr the tides and flightless birds
A cryptic style crossword puzzle with clues listed for across and down entries. The page includes numerous wordplay hints such as divisions of flightless birds cleave and terms for earth as a goddess, plus directions for completing the grid and yesterday’s answer reference.
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Earth
Siferian Gulf
Vichy
Chice
Gas Main Explosion Throws Car Off Street in Pallas
Motorist Kern Harris chose a wrong moment to cross a street when an eight inch gas line burst beneath his vehicle. The car flew 45 feet, slammed into a gas station twice hitting two pumps, then rolled 33 feet away. Harris escaped with only a slight arm injury.
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Pallas —Ok
Kern Harris
Harris
Distant Guns Men Die But Spring Returns
War rape and waste in Korea give way to spring scenes as American troops on the peninsula find temporary relief in warmer weather. Soldiers roam and wash in rivers while battle fatigue and relics linger. Yet summer looms with new pests and heat as insects and odors threaten the air and fields.
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Spring
William Chapman
Soms
Y Peninsula
Ted
Spring Sun
Korea
Mew Movies Taste Bad The Studio Stand-In Has Peculiar Job
Hollywood item reports that film tasters like Billy Vernon, a daytime actor, complain some movies lack sound and visuals and now taste bad as the studio assigns peculiar tasting duties to stand-ins.
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood
I — Movie Bunzies
Billy Vernon
Vernon
Robert Young
Technicolor
Young
RKO
Wen
Betty Grable
Cecil B. Demille
Wfarth
MGM
Livestock Prices Fort Worth ICR Desdai Cattle
Fort Worth livestock market shows cattle generally steady to strong from last week with top slaughter steers and yearlings around 37 to 38.25, cows at 24, bulls 29, stocker yearlings 36, calves mostly steady to strong with slaughter calves 33 to 35 and stocker calves 26 to 50, hogs up with butcher hogs and sows 25 to 80 higher, tops 21 for butcher hogs, 18.50 for sows, 19 for feeder pigs.
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Fort Worth
ICR
Ibad
Cranford Returns Home From Fort Lewis on Furlough
Private James W. Cranford, stationed at Fort Lewis Washington, is home on furlough visiting his parents Mrs Rosa Wilkins and Jim Cranford. He had lived in Baytown for 12 years and enlisted October 11 1950. The text notes there are over 22 million home owning families in the United States, nearly twice the 1940 figure.
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James W. Cranford
Fort Lewis
Washington
Rosa Wilkins
Busch, Terrace
Jim Cranford
Ash
Cranford
Baytown
United States
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