Soviet Break With Australia Threatens Olympic Representation
Inside Washington reports a break in diplomatic ties after a Soviet embassy official and her refugee husband prompted Canberra to sever relations. The split endangers the USSR’s participation in Melbourne Olympics, despite past strong showings. Russian propagandists expected a high team score to trump the United States at the Italian Olympiad.
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Baytown Sun
Washington
Australia
Cay
Ussr
Soviet Union
Melbourne
Muscouwr
US States
City Center marks first decade with strong attendance and balanced losses
The New York City Center of Music and Drama wrapped its first decade with 962,487 attendees across 498 performances, generating 1,895,750.50 dollars in revenue. A 227,135.27 dollar operating loss offset by inventory and depreciation, plus a Rockefeller grant of 20,000 dollars focused on creation rather than production costs, are noted. Since 1943, 22,073 performances drew 7,176,069 attendees, employing over 1,590 people with payroll exceeding 1.25 million annually.
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New York City
Rockefeller Foundation
City Center
Trio plans far reaching Oklahoma tour for live towns
By Jack Gaver United States and Canada bias and Jean Barrere , Richard Rodgers and of Oklahoma for the State Maso, Philli have just be Qsear Hammerstein. The three men formerly were stage Managers of the New York and national companies of South Pacific. They plan to take Oklahoma on an extensive tour of towns in this country and Canada not served by main rail lines, using a caravan of buses and trucks starting in Bridgeport Conn. They will visit upstate New York, Eastern Canada, Northwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas with mostly one night stands. The producing firm says the show will feature every note and word written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. If successful they may tour South Pacific, Carousel, and other works.
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Canada
Bias
Jean Barrere
Richard Rodgers
Oklahoma
Maso
Philli
Qsear Hammerstein
New York
South Pacific
Bridgeport
Conn
New York State
Pennsyvania
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Iinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Arise men. Women wrestlers threaten masters of households
A Dayton reader shares a letter from “one real woman” about a Wichita case where Eula Storey, 22, a professional wrestler, allegedly grabbed her husband by the neck and tossed him from a window after he claimed rule of the home. She posted bond at $1,000. The note argues such incidents may start an era where women wrestlers outrank men.
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Nate
Wichita
Kan
Eula Storey
Women respond to abusive husbands rant in newspaper letter
A reader scolds a columnist for praising male dominance and urges acknowledgment that many women endure decades of abuse. She insists most men are not the master race and calls for sympathy and accountability, arguing for respect and safety for wives.
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America
Australia may bar Russia from Olympic Games
The piece notes Australia could bar Russia from the Olympics, but invitations depend on the host nation. It discusses potential diplomatic moves, political capital for Democrats, and GOP concerns amid Army-McCarthy controversy, plus a color TV forecast and quirky items from Hungary and England.
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Australia
Russia
Hollywood playboys form private club to cut party costs
Aline Mosby reports a group of movieland playboys opened a private nightclub to fund their parties, buying a club and charging members lower prices. The Table Hoppers Club counts Spike Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald OConnor, Jerry Lewis, and Gregg Bautzer among 234 members, who seek privacy and value.
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John Carroll
Bob Calhoun
Geary Steffan
Steffan
Dang Powell
Peble
Movie Colony
vTabie Hoppers Club
Spike Jones
Ginny Simms
Elizabeth Taylor
Donald O'Connor
Pierre Angeli
Jerry Lewis
Vicky Hilton
Scott Brady
Bob Stack
Gregg Bautzer
Nora Haymes
Dick Haymes
Ree
Cane
Weather, candy, signs and jokes from a scattered column
A flurry of quirky notes covers weather in New Delhi spiking past 112 degrees, U S candy consumption claims, a boast about England's marbles price, a dusted river line, a producer’s forecast hoarded to a redacted last line, and a quip about a Keep Off the Grass sign reads Weeds can't read. An Oxford Maine budget tweak and a Canadian fishing tale round out the miscellany.
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New Delhi
India
Zadon Wambopf
World Balance Sheet For Week Summary Of News In Hot And Cold Wars
Foreign policy strains between the United States and Great Britain ease as five power talks on Indo China begin in Washington. Churchill open to Southeast Asia security talks if Geneva progress by week’s end. Hope surfaces for freeing several Americans held in Chinese prisons. France shifts Morocco policy to curb Nationalist terrorism as US bases there loom. A British Labour delegation accepts Peiping invitation, prompting government-made disclosures. Dulles discusses arms shipments to Guatemala amid ongoing foreign affairs chatter.
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Great Britain
Indo-China
Washington
Winston Churchill
Geneva
Peiping
France
Morocco
Francis Lacoste
Toush
Augustin Guillaume
Lacoste
China
Labor Party
Revel Aneurin Bevan
Clement R. Attice
Laborites
John Foster Dulles
Guatemala
Milieu of Distant Conflicts and Local Barroom Tale
A fragmented text blends a Western barroom scene with Cold War era notes. It mentions a mild hero averting danger, a Communist threat near the Panama Canal, US arms shipments to Central America, B 26 bombers visiting Nicaragua, and France’s fragile Vietnam ceasefire talks amid Red River Delta violence. The cabinet turmoil around Indo China is noted.
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Indo - China
France
Red River
Joseph Lanjel
Quick Knowledge Quiz From a Fragment Puzzle
Five trivia questions span philosophy, quotes, literature, poetry, and geography. Answers reference Pythagoras, Will Rogers, Bram Stoker, Samuel Coleridge, and the Mackenzie River direction northward.
Mundt urged to run for president or hole
Washington column recaps Drew Pearson satire on Senator Mundt facing McCarthy inquiries and TV publicity. It also covers Frankie Costello tax case, his U S citizenship, and alleged shielding by officials, plus Pearson notes on Ochsner, cigarettes and lung cancer, and a Washington pipeline of Nixon Halleck Strauss TVA tensions and diamond smuggling ring.
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Washington
Kurt Mundt
South Dakota
Senate
Capitol
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Arizona
Marl
McFarland
Sen
William Fulbright
Arkansas
Karl
Fulbright
Hisenhower
Congress
Dick Nixon
House
Charlie Halleck
Atomic Energy
Lewis Strauss
Oak Ridge
Tann
Paducah
Tennessee Valley Authority
Strauss
TVA
Belgian Congo
Tanganyika
Johannesburg
United States
New Yore
Canadian
Quotations greet mother on Mother's Day
A note from Bob Batt, a Tu Lane University student, to his mother expresses warm wishes for many more Mother’s Day celebrations.
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Bob Batt
Tulane University
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