Broadway Express Memoir of Midnighter Reflections
A collage of gossip and blurbs on Broadway names, nightlife, and industry quirks. Notes Fritz Kuhn in Germany, Mead as liquor czar prospect, Patti Clayton Dodgers fan, Durocher inspiration, and a string of theatre and city vignettes with quirky observations and sensational headlines.
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The
Broadway Express
J. L. Lewis
Virginia
Fritz Kuhn
Germany
Senator Mead
Likker Czar Post
San Antonio
White House
3 Wonan
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Santa Claus
St Nicholas
Hooper
Vince Curran
Leo Durocher
Lera the Wolf
H'wood
Leo the Lion
Patti Clayton
Dodger
Durocher
Laraine Day
Patti
Fred March
Ruth Gordon
League of N. Y. Theaters
Oay
Stalin Health Update and Rent Control Lobby Shifts
Diplomatic dispatches from Moscow report Marshal Stalin’s health setback with a November heart attack. He rests in the Crimea at 87, the reports note his long, arduous life and political endurance. In Washington the real estate lobby plans to shift rent control to states, framing it as states rights and economy, while OPA decontrol proceeds.
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Leighton’s
Peter Lind Hayes
Movietown
Wassamatta
New York
Jolson
Stalin
Washington
Moscow
Marshal Stalin
Crimea
Atate Department
Russia
Truman
Department of Commerce
Republican Congress
Messure
Prize Winning Crocheted Runner and 1948 GOP Site Talk
The column mixes a crochet prize story with political chatter. It notes a prize winning crocheted runner pattern number 5308 and a request for instructions. It also covers GOP convention site notions with Rep George Bender proposing Cleveland and other regional quips. It mentions a possible postmaster general seat and Sen Jim Mead as a potential confirmation. The piece frames Truman’s commission appointment hints and shadowed delays amid campaign politics.
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Truman
Joe O'Mahoney
Louisville
Wyoming
Kentucky
Louis O'Marr
Stigler
Oklahoma
Buffet
Hart Welch
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Chickasaw
Commission
Wienler
Will Robinson
Utah
Jed Johnson
U.S
George Bender
Ohio
Cleveland Republican Committee
National Committee
Cleveland
Bender
Werner Schroeder
Tllinois
Almanacs Grow Oldest Publications in U S History
The piece notes long lived almanacs in the United States with Grubers Hagerstown Almanac in its 149th year Old Farmer's Almanac in its 154th Cabell's New England Almanac in its 174th and Foulsham's Almanack in its 250th year, stressing farmer focused content.
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U.S
United States
Col‘Hier
Gruber
Hagerstown
Cabell
New England
Foulsham
Telegraph Office Tease Tra La Message Ends In Laughter
A tipsy gentleman in a telegraph office writes a playful message to a St. Louis friend, pays 64 cents for eight words, and debates adding more words with the clerk. The banter ends with a witty exchange over whether adding “tra la” would make it sound silly.
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St. Louis
Surprising Home Cough Relief from Your Kitchen
A old fashioned home remedy for coughs promises quick throat and bronchial relief. Make a syrup from sugar and water then mix with Pinex and honey or corn syrup to yield a pint of cough syrup. It claims no spoilage, pleasant taste for children, soothing of irritated membranes, eased breathing, and restful sleep with a money back guarantee.
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Manhattan
Kerrickter
Missouri Way
Sith Street
42Nd Street
Fifth Avenue
Georgia
Broadway
Gogels
Big Tall
Wincheilebribes
George Washington Kavanaugh
Walking Mint
Estelits
Embassy Clubeaut
Jose Ferrer
Doug Corrigan
Royal Air Service
Ray Bolger
America
Edison Institute School
Dearborn
Mich
Greenfield Village
Peggy Anne White
Joseph Eschback
Patricia Hoodl
Lake Pend Oreille
Sandpoint
Idaho
Layrence Hagution
Reardon
Wash
Nippon
V. L P
Tokyo
Robert J. Smithdas
Pittsburgh
Lef
William J. Mahoney
St. John's University
Brooklyn
Ralph W. Barnes
Stockbridge
Mass
Charley Trippi
Georgia University
Maxwell Memorial Football Club of
Philadelphia
Siberia
Churchill
Potsdam
Molotov
Cain
South Wells St
State of
GOEF
Miami
Jim Mead
Bob Hannegan
Republican Senate
Senate
Sen
Mead
Nea
T Heels
Osullivan
Ices Oe
Burt
Pula
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