TV debates between Nixon and Kennedy spark new frontier in politics
Historical note on the first presidential TV debates between Nixon and Kennedy. It highlights potential savings in campaign TV casts, the public’s ability to compare poise and candor, and NBC’s role in initiating the experiment. Also mentions concerns about showmanship versus statesmanship and potential changes in equal time rules.
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Nixon
Kennedy
White House
Senate
Esther van Wagoner Tufty
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
Huntley
Brinkley
CBS
Fidel and Raoul Castro exposed as a pitiful pair
The piece condemns Fidel and Raul Castro for their illness of mind and betrayal of Cuba's people. It accuses them of seizing American properties, fostering hatred of the United States, and aligning with the Communist bloc. The author urges Cubans to expel Castro and his aides to restore true freedom.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
United States
Raul
America
Seasonal snippets and small-town quips mix of oddities
A collage of light anecdotes from daily life includes a Cincinnati man noting 561 seeds in a watermelon, talks on public image and privacy, pleas for distant TV crooners, rain by garden hose, vacations changing people, peaches preserved beyond beauty parlors, alcohol in trees turning leaves red, a pharmacy course leading to shakes, a Ohio family reunion with 75 people and seven uncles, a bonfire stair theft in Ohio, police steps, animals and a new baby asleep standing, lunch timing troubles with kids, wildlife decline from lack of food, and a joking cover charge reference.
Washington News: Experts and Best Dressed Man
A collection of light items from Washington including Murray Snyder the Pentagon press chief known for style remarks on his family buying his clothes Their jokes about a multi generation shopping team His wife and daughters. Also notes on a German food reception and a conga of light anecdotes about Congress and diplomacy.
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Jerry Bennett
Four major left overs shape Hart McNamara talks
Senator Hart labels four bills as the key items for action minimum wage school construction housing and medical care for the aged Michigan’s Pat McNamara backs measures on wage increases aged care and school building He is on reproductive committees while Bentley lacks housing duties Hart also comments on Kennedy Swainson and the Democratic ticket during a press meeting He notes Hart and Swainson resemble each other in youth and vigor and declines to confirm his vote for Swainson.
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Esther van Wagoner Tuft
Senate
Philip Hart
Dmich
Pat McNamara
McNamara
Alvin Bentley
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
South America
Owosso
Washington
Hart
Owosso Republi
Bentley
Kennedy
Swainson
Michigan
Television pioneers and TV shows mirror past hits
Hollywood notes that many new series resemble earlier programs as producers recycle seven core plots. Examples include Lassie echoing a boy and his dog, National Velvet with a girl and horse, and Stagecoach West recalling Overland Trail. Angel emerges as an American man with a French wife in a new comedy.
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Hollywood
Cummings
Tab Hunter
Liz wiTTLe producer linked to I Love Lucy tale
A note recalls Liz wiTTLe as a producer tied to a situation comedy about an American girl married to a Cuban man titled I Love Lucy. The remark clarifies this genealogical aside does not claim the shows cannot be wonderful.
Biddeford Saco Journal Directory Information
Local Biddeford Maine daily paper lists Adams Street address and staff, including publisher Paul Casavant and editor T J Mahoney. It notes subscriptions in advance with rates for 1 month 1.85 six months 10.50 and 1 year 21.00 and states AP membership and republication rights.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Paul Casavant
T. J. Mahoney
Associated Press
Post Office
First Lady Aspirants Get The Fish Bowl Scrutiny
Women discuss and dissect wives of presidential nominees to gauge candidates. The piece argues voters assess a man by his choice of wife and the couple’s dynamic, noting the influence a politician’s wife can have and the improbability of a woman becoming president.
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United States
White House
Questions and Answers on Social Security Payments and Taxes
A Q and A column covers who may receive a deceased relative’s Social Security check, beekeeping income tax status, widow benefits, underage newspaper sales tax, disability waiting periods, and Civil Service annuity age. It notes returning a death month check, when earnings are taxable, how widow payments switch, and rules for minors selling papers.
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B.P
New York City
Treasury Department
T.J
Annapolis
S.E.J
Oklahoma City
Summer at the Shore Poem and Munich Zoo Gift
A Milwaukee article notes poet Sarah Bridge Graves reflecting on children at the shore while a separate report recounts Herr Heinz Heck visiting Milwaukee County Zoo in October 1956 and sending a large gesture a half-ton European bison valued at over
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Milwaukee
Munich
Germany
Herr Heinz Heck
Milwaukee County Zoo
Letters on civil rights and a Dame Judith Anderson honor
A Journal letters column discusses John T. Flynn’s stance on civil rights, federal power, and constitutional limits, warning against government overreach and praising minority protections. The page also reports Dame Judith Anderson being named Dame Commander of the British Empire and her London filming schedule.
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Journal
John T. Flynn
American Union
Supreme Court
Charles Parsons
Miss Anderson
London
Judith Anderson
Order of the British Empire
Judith
Flming
Macbeth
Queen Elizabeth
Australia
America
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A compiled list of crossword clues spanning across and down entries. Includes various subjects from anatomy to geography, languages to music, with many two word and proper noun answers noted in typical newspaper puzzle style.
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Mulford
Fidel and
Raoul
Cincinnati
Ohio
Gosh
Room
Washington News
National Housing Center
Pentagon
Office of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Air Force
U. N
Congo
Capitol Hill
Sen
John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
French Riviera
U. S
Mary Stuart Price
Sixth Fleet
Adm
George Anderson
Mary
Army Quartermaster Corps
Congress
Television Needs Pioneers
Biddeford -Saco Journal
Heath Willett
By Ray Henry
Mrs
Oakland
Calif
H.R
Washington, D. C
Ray Henry
Bridgeport
Conn
Sarah Bridge Graves
People’s Forum
Abbi
Iran
Glacier
Alaska
Hector Hugh Munro
Sir Lancelot
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