Honeymoon Ends as Joan Crawford Chooses Film Star Life
Hollywood icon Joan Crawford returns to Columbia for The Way We Are and declares she will not quit acting. She plans six United Artists films next year, continues a traveling marriage with Al Steel, and discusses home plans and family, while asserting she remains a movie queen.
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood
Joan Crawford
al Steel
Joan
Columbia Studio
United Artists
New York
Florida
Oveta Hobby Named To Education Conference
Denver AP report states President Eisenhower named Oveta C. Hobby to the committee for the White House Conference on Education in November in Washington. He also reappointed seven members and named five new members to the International Development Advisory Board for two-year terms starting Sept. 25 to guide the Point Four technical assistance program abroad.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Oveta Cnip Hobby
White House
Washington
International Development Advisory Board
Berry Reappointed Texas Dimes Head for 1956 Campaign
Maj. Gen. K. L. Berry, renowned Texas figure and polio fighter, is named state chairman for the 1956 March of Dimes in Texas by Basil O'Connor. Berry, a former First Division commander in the Philippines and 25 year Texas adjutant general, vows continued effort to aid patients, research, and education while lauding the Salk vaccine as a major victory.
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K. L. Berry
Texas Dimes
Texas
Evan
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For
Berry
O'Connor
Texas March of Dimes
Comtat
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Gen. Berry
Manila
Gion
Phippine
Bataan
Gen
Texas National Guard
Grandparents Turn Clowns Touring United States
Roy and Joy Thomas of Columbus City aged 59 have spent about two decades in free dance clowning. They travel the United States Canada Mexico and Hawaii in a trailer performing with tumbling acts learned since childhood and showcase a lifelong show business passion. The piece notes the 1955 car era difference in length from 1941 models.
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Columbus City
Roy
Joy Thomas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Hawaii
Joy
Quotes From Public Figures On Radio Film And Politics
United Press reports on- and off-air quips from Lucille Vogeler about talking with people on Make Up Your Mind. Joe DiMaggio jokes about Dodgers Yankees matchups calling brainwashing the cure. Davis Niven riffs on Hollywood headlines as entertainment. Horace Hanes touts a world speed record at 822.1385 mph with a forecast of future records. Adlai Stevenson criticizes Eisenhower farm policy as worsening. Senator Langer questions Dixon-Yates deal and White House integrity.
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United Press
Lucille Vogeler
Robert Vogeler
Red Hungary
Horace A. Hanes
Air Force
William Langer
White House
West Texas Farmers Assured Labor for Cotton Harvest
West Texas cotton farmers were assured by state and federal officials that enough labor will be available to harvest the crop. If domestic workers fall short, Mexican nationals may be imported to complete the labor force. The Texas Employment Commission and the U S Bureau of Employment Security outlined recruitment and contracting options for farmers, including hiring through a farm association or individual TEC contracts.
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Austin
West Texas
W. H. Farmer
Texas Employment Commission
Ed McDonald
U. S. Bureau of Employment Security
Department of Labor
TEC
Mexico
McDonald
Child United Us Says Korean Enouch Arden
Airman Danny Schmidt and his wife Una appeared on a national telecast to recount their reunion after more than two years apart in a Red Chinese prison. They credited their son Danny Jr. with bringing them back together and noted Schmidt was believed dead before their marriage.
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Hollywood
Danny Schmidt
Enoch Arden
Una
Bert Parks the Quiz King of TV News
Bert Parks has spent about 4.5 million dollars as a quizzmaster on TV radio shows. He emceed Break the Bank for 10 years and Stop the Music for ABC TV, with prizes totaling millions. Parks recalls early quiz origins, praises the first big money shows, and notes his skill at easing contestants, especially kids, by meeting them at their level.
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William Ewald
New York
Bert Parks
Parks
Abc-Tv
Ian
Bud Callyer
CBS
Fildie Carter
Collyer
Ara
School OKs Negro Boy Enrolls in Rural Bushland District
In Potter county, Bushland’s Bush land school accepted eight year old Robert Wright, son of Bart and Mrs. Wright, as a second grade student. Amarillo’s public schools, spanning city limits and portions of Potter and Randall counties, opened on a segregated basis. Superintendent Herbert Wilburn said there will be no integration until legal rulings on pending test cases.
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Amaring
Bushland
Potter County
Robert Wright
Bart Wright
Charles M. Davis
Amarillo Independent School
Fotter
Raneball
Herbert Wilburn
Amarillo
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