Editorials on oil spending and shipping policy in the U.S.
The article discusses a 46 billion dollar annual oil industry investment, including 600 million abroad, and analyzes production, equipment, and marketing spending. It cites Eisenhower on merchant shipping and contrasts private merchant marine funding with subsidies, urging a choice between maintaining a strong U.S. fleet versus foreign dependence. It also includes a Baytown column praising Senator Searcy Bracewell and critiquing a local Optimist Club speaker selection, plus a letter from Colon Pettewnay describing overseas work near Bombay and impressions of life abroad.
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Searcy Bracewell
Austin
Searcy
Texas A
M. T
Baytown
Optimist Club
Sen. Bracewell
Robert E
Dan Stallworth
Col
Ed J. Stolle
Optimist International
Texas as religion and pride in a Lone Star state
A columnist recalls a letter from Lubbock publisher Charlie Guy about population growth and a New York visit. He muses that Texans treat Texas as a religion, praising state loyalty and humor while noting pride, unity, and the risk of conflict within the state.
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Charlie Guy
Lubbock
Charlie
Texas
New York
Eisenhower
United State
Scandals to Return to Broadway After 18 Years
George White plans a Broadway return in October with Scandals inspired by It’s Nice To See You. Irwin Carey is lined up as the first engagement, with Jack Yellen and Irving Caesar expected to write material. The original Scandals last played in 1938 at the Alvin Theater and helped launch Ann Miller’s film career.
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George White
Broaday
Versailles
White
Jack Yellen
Irving Caesar
Irwin Carey
Broadway
Alvin Theater
Ann Miller
Lukather and Wynn audition for Anniversary Waltz staged at Broadhurst
By Jack Gaver Lukather son of Beverly Hills residents and Miss Wynn of Brooklyn auditioned among many for Wayne with a large cast. Backers of Anniversary Waltz earned 20 percent return after three weeks since opening at the Broadhurst Theater starring Macdonald Caves and Kitty Carlisle. Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith plan Ballet Theater’s 15th season with Nora Kaye rejoining her home company. Misa Kaye will debut with Ballet Theater after the current national tour ends in Boston May 22. Kaye danced opening night at Center Theater and spent 10 uninterrupted years with the company.
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Jerome Chodorov
Joseph Fields
Macdonald Caves
Kitty Carlisle
Broadhurst Theater
Lucia Chase
Qllver Smith
The
Ballet Theater
Nora Kaye
Misa Kaye
Boston
Missaye
Center Theater
Vampira Hollywood Queen Wears Gothic Gown in Midnight TV
Dateline Hollywood profiles Maila Nurmi known as Vampira, ABC TV mistress of ceremonies for a local midnight horror program. The feature highlights her macabre persona, past as a Topland dancer and model, and notes her self described oddness and fame.
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Hollywood
Vampira
Charles Addams
Abc-Tv
Thene
Topland
Maila Nurmi
Rehearsal Was Enough Nichols Franks First Time Out As Actor
Washington May 14 UP I signed a contract for a movie career but flunked during the rehearsal of a National Tuberculosis Association tribute film titled Within Man's Power. Nichols Franks recounts dressing as a 1907 Philadelphia land owner, failing to spark the part, and ending with a backstage quip about being the only proof of a possible screen career a photo on set.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
National Video Productions, Inc
National Tuberculosis Association
Philadelphia
Earth
Herman Buckman
Ther
Try And Stop Me Prather in Children's Hour
A humorous column sketches a boy asking why a man may have only one wife and a father answering that the law protects the weak. A Hollywood director praises Bing and Bing after a New York trip and jokes about a child’s psychoanalysis fund. A father distributes a belt and a nickel offering in church with a quip about cheerful giving.
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Prather
Dad
Aister
Quick Knowledge Grab Bag and Trivia Mix
Five trivia items answered include inhabited Hawaiian islands count two by two and a half. Antonin Zapotocky is the Czechoslovak premier. Aaron Burr served as vice president under Thomas Jefferson. James Gordon Bennett was a prominent newspaper editor and publisher. the quote about “To hold as there, the mirror up to nature” is from Hamlet.
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Hawaii
Czechoslovakia
Aaron Burr
James Gordon Bennett
Antonin Zapotocky
Thomas Jefferson
New York
Boston
Hamlet
Washington Merry Go Round on Mundt Dirksen and McCarthy Ties
Washington gossip notes Karl Mundt faces private pressure as wife Mary Mundt allies with McCarthyites. Dirksen allies with Eisenhower despite Chicago battles. Rainville attends secret hearings, raising questions of propriety. Lyndon Johnson, Oregon GOP fears and Morse-Neuberger race loom with public power themes.
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Washington
Mundt
Wfe
Joe McCarthy
Drew Pearson
Karl Mundt
South Dakota
Mary Mundt
Jean Kerr McCarthy
Bary McCormick Tankersley
Chicago Tribune McCormicks
Joe
Senator Mundt
Texas
Clint Murchison
McCarthy
Karl
Mondt
Army
John G. Adams
McCarthy Committee
Harold Rainville
Dirksen
GOP Elections Committee
FBI
Colley
Rainville
Fort Monmouth
Ralph W. Zwicker
Dirksen-McCarthy
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Butler
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Stallworth
Bombay
Colon Pettewnay
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Pelly
Baton Rouge
Baltimore
St. Louis
Canada
South America
Billings
Mont
Shell
Paris
Cairo
Suca Canal
Bob Matherne
Prof. Sanders
Colon
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Geneva
David Wayne
Phyllis Wynn
Paul Lukather
Robert Portersfield
Abington
Wayne
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Aline Mosby
God
Jesus
Marly
Beilhop
Mike ‘Todd
Dean Reisner
Addams
USC
Styx
Peni
Nichols Franks
al Smith
By Bennett Cerf
Metropolitan Opera Company
Bing
Atti
Madame Butterfield
Tve
Central Press
Dre
Katherine Elizabeth McBride
Bryn Mawr College
Patrice Munsel
Metropolitan Opera
Les Moss
John Kissett
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Gabriel] Fahrenheit
Paraguay
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Volcano
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Golden Coach
Ballisima
New York City
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Naval Post-Graduate School
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Mass
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Internal Security Subcommittee
W. S. Plumer
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Robert C. Sprague
Ike
Taft
Hisenhower
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Dirkaen
Triol
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Wader
Eyverett Dirksen
Galt
Tuinely
White House
Nixon
Dewey
Philadelphaa
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Johnson
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Estiny
Lyndon
Sophie Jackson- Jefferson Sizzler
GOP
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National Committee
Guy Gordon
Richard Neuberger
Ralph Cake
Dave Simpson
Portland
Cordon
Frank Sever
Cordon’s
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Portland General Electric
James Polhemus
Interior Department
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Neuberger
Wayne Morse
University of Oregon
Morse
Republican Party
Willie
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