Hollywood bids farewell to Clark Gable
Hollywood says goodbye to Clark Gable with a private funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale. Pallbearers include James Stewart, Robert Taylor, and Spencer Tracy. Gable to be buried beside Carole Lombard in a crypt, honoring his wartime Air Force service with full military rites. Public not admitted. widow Kay Williams Spreckels confirms consent and last farewell remarks.
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Glendale
Calif
Hollywood
Clark Gable
King
James Stewart
Robert Taylor
Spencer Tracy
Gable
Carole Lombard
Air Force
March Air Force Base
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Miss Lombard
Kay Williams Spreckels
Thorndike man killed in Maine highway crash
Paul Work, 30, of Jackman died when a car struck a tree and overturned. Carl Davis, 29, of Brooks, was hospitalized with serious head injuries, while Lewis Higgins, 26, of Thorndike, escaped serious injury. Work’s death marks the 150th highway fatality in Maine this year.
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Thorndike
Paul Work
Jackman
Carl Davis
Brooks
Bangor
Lewis Higgins
Work
Maine
TWUA Appeals to Kennedy for Textile Development Agency
The Textile Workers of America executive council urged President-elect Kennedy to create a textile development agency to spur new industrial and consumer uses for textile products. They criticized Eisenhower era neglect and opposed tax depreciation relief, arguing it would mainly benefit corporations without boosting growth.
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New York
The
Textile Workers of America
John F. Kennedy
Eisenhower
Ghana Defies Mobutu Over Congo Expulsion Demand
Ghana’s charge d affaires Nath ianiel Welbeck says he will not bow to Col Mobutu’s order to leave the Congo. He reports no formal expulsion notice and asserts Ghana maintains diplomatic relations with Lumumba’s legal government. Welbeck cites UN assurances of protection as the Congo crisis continues.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Ghana
Nathianiel Welbeck
Joseph ‘Mobutu
Welbeck
Mobutu
Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations
Indarjit Rikhye
U. N. Congo
Court Edict Should Make Addict Happy
London re makes Maurice Hart happier than lying swathed in bandages on a hospital operating table. In the last decade, Aylesbury court heard the mortuary keeper bluffed his way into 500 hospitals. Hart, 25, has Munchausen Syndrome and was ordered restricted to a hospital under the Mental Health Act for about 10 years.
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London
Maurice Hart
Aylesbury
Hart
Participating Friday At W E I U Program In Saco
Members of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union gathered at Hamilton Memorial Hall in Saco for a Friday program. Left to right in the photo are Dr. Frank Lawler, guest speaker and superintendent of Saco and Old Orchard Beach, and other union members.
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Arundel Juvenile Grange
Grange Hall
Byron Lowell
Robert Burleigh
Linda Card
Douglas Card
Debra Card
Pomona
Cynthia Spence
Flora
Donna Vetterline
Esther Bragdon
Daniel Higgins
Robert Card
Linda Vetterline
Ceres
Shelley Higgins
Wardwell
Middle Street
Saco
Abbott-Verville Amve
Old Orchard Beach
Blanche C. Gilman
Toni Bill
Irene Griffin
Jean Blais
Irene Guarino
Jackie Griffin
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Hamilton Memorial Hall
Frank Lawler
Old Or
Wells High School
Reginald Chase
Constance Higgins
Gary Berry
Catherine Lyons
Douglas Filson
Judy Lynn Young
Sue Szczepanski
Charles Bourne, Jr
Red Hand Seen In Castro's Approach
Havana reports muting Castro rhetoric toward the United States points to Kremlin influence guiding a more moderate stance. Soviet signals and Cuban editorial shifts raise speculation that Moscow seeks a path to later conciliatory moves while Kennedy faces cautious expectations from Havana.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
United States
Moscow
Washington
Kremlin
John F. Kennedy
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
U. S. Navy
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Chain Furore
Tne
U. S
Kennedy
Cuba
Wives Reveal Real Character Of Gable
Hollywood aging star Clark Gable had five wives and many sweethearts shaping perceptions of his true self. The piece details first two wives Josephine Dillon and Rita Langham, their ages, marriages, and divorces, and notes how Gable’s early instability influenced his lifelong romance pattern.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Josephine Dillon
Portland
Ore
Rita Langham
Gable
Pappy
Mrs. G
Glendale
Mt. Charleston
Nev
Carole
Amarillo
Tex
Three killed in Wells head on collision on Route 1
State Police report a morning head on crash on U S Route 1 near Joseph Houston farm in Wells left Leroy C. Klinger 56 and his wife Alma 15 Pine Street South Portland dead and Nicholas George critically injured. The Klingers’ son Leroy Jr. 12 survived at scene. George from Portland on way home from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard rushed to York hospital. Traffic delayed while rescue crews untangled cars and washed fuel. Trooper Richard Kierstead investigating.
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Wells
Leroy C. Klinger
Alma
Pine Street
South Portland
Nicholas George
Klinger
Leroy, Jr
Oney P. Smith
Joseph Houston
George
Portsmouth Naval
Whitney Avenue
Portland
York Hospital
York Village
Wells Beach
Gordon Bridges
John Crabtree
Wells Corner
Ogunouit Volunteer Fire Company
Jacks
Route 1
Richard Kierstead
Education Improvements Fall Short of Dreams in New Mexico
At a three day meeting in Santa Fe state leaders and education commissioners weighed efforts to modernize high school curricula beyond old standards. J Lloyd Trump warned few major reforms since World War I have been adopted, noting lessons from radio and educational television while urging action despite limits on teachers, buildings, and funding.
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Santa FE
N. M
J. Lloyd Trump
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Council of Chief State School Officers
Trump
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Millicert Rogers
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Carole Lombards
Grace Kelly
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Carol Ricker
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