Durante Memoir Recalled With Elephants In Jumbo Retelling
Hollywood recalls Jimmy Durante memory of Jumbo stage act and his return to elephant film work. He recounts original show antics with the elephant at the Hippodrome and the backstage pressures from Billy Rose Hecht MacArthur Rodgers and Hart while noting he now has a stricter contract and limited elephant involvement in the MGM movie.
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Billy Rose
New York
Old Hippodrome
Jimmy
Doris Day
Stephen Boyd
Martha Raye
Durante
MGM
Jimy
Hecht
MacArthur
Rodgers and Hart
Jumbo
Elephant
Santa Claus Gives Way to Diapered Babe on TV New Year
AP reports Santa Claus yields to a diapered infant on air as New Year installments debut across networks. NBC NBCs Fred Waring program praised. ABC critiqued Enchanted Nutcracker and Roaring 20s schedule gaps. Khrushchev Berlin crisis doc White Paper noted on NBC.
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Santa Claus
Babe
New York
Fred Waring
ABC
NBC
Khrushchev
Berlin
Christmas card mixup in Sawtry leads to Noel mix up
In Sawtry England Mrs P R Fielding a Christmas card dealer reports a customer returning a card bought for a brother named Fred because the card read Noel. The incident highlights a name confusion over holiday greetings.
Television as Educational Aid Improves Teaching Not Replaces It
A USC professor argues television enhances education by expanding access to expert teaching. It aids medical and science instruction, supports large classes, and helps teachers adopt new methods, but cannot substitute flesh and blood teachers or the classroom.
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U.S. Office of Education
Franklin Dunham
Office of Education
Tennessee
Indiana
Big City
Two Holiday Deaths On N H Roads
New Hampshire reports two Christmas weekend fatalities raising the 1961 road toll to 97 a drop from 103 a year ago. Bedford resident Joseph Chartier 56 died in a head on crash with a mail truck on Route 101 in Dublin. Cora Marcotte 31 of Littleton died in a two car collision on Route 101 in Bedford. Her daughter Donna 10 and husband Leopold 36 were seriously injured.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Joseph D. Chartier
Bedford
Dublin
Cora Marcotte
Littleton
Donna
Leopold
Trading Stamps Provide Bus For Mentally Il
Northville Michigan AP reports that Northville State Mental Hospital received a bus as a Christmas gift funded by more than 4,000 contributors who sent 2 301 600 trading stamps. The bus will transport patients to Hawthorn School and to the Detroit zoo and other local sites.
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Northville, Mich
Northville State Mental Hospital
Hawthorn
Zoo
Detroit
Hawthorn-Northville
Reina Cerezo Names Baby in Honor of Jacqueline Kennedy
Mrs Reina Cerezo in Caracas welcomed President and Mrs Kennedy and named one of three newborn girls Jacqueline in honor of the U S First Lady. The baby’s name honors Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and reflects a tribute from the crowd in Venezuela.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Reina Cerezo
Kennedy
Jacqueline
U.S
Michigan association helps patient earn bus for Christmas list
The Michigan Association for Emotionally Disturbed Children included a bus on the patients Christmas list last May. Mrs. Charles E. Dell Jr. said the bus was listed as a joke, and the plea spread by word of mouth and newspaper articles.
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Michigan Association For Emotionally Disturbed Children
Charles E. Dell Jr
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Allen
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University of Southern Calif
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