Hollywood Stars Jumping Into Business Ventures
Studio gossip notes that Alan Ladd bought into a Santa Monica restaurant while Bill Holden co-founded Hickox Productions, a radio transcription firm. Joyce Reynolds returns to Warner Bros, Nanette Parks lands the lead in Catalina, and Sterling Hayden and Olga San Juan lead in early production chatter.
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Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Alan Ladd
Santa Monica
Bill Holden
Dear Ruth
Arthur Treacher
Carl Hoff
Andrew G. Hickox
Hickox Productions, Inc
Nanette Parks
Paramount
Broadway Express Notes on Hype and High Life
Gossip column fragment recounts Tex Beneke returning funds to promoters after a Southeast tour finishes. It rails at charity campaigns by titled figures and references a 1948 Berlin photo, Nashville's Grand Ole Opry crowd, Emily Post sales, and various literary and entertainment tidbits across New York, Atlanta, Florida, and Washington.
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Tex Beneke
Berlin
Alaska
Florida
Grand Central Station
H'wood
Nashville
Tenn
Grand Ole Opry
Emily Post
Polan Banks
Margaret
New York
Juliet Lowell
John la Cerda
Japan
MacArthur
Rutgers Univ. Press
Drowned Tugboat Worker Remembered With Festive Wake
Mike Clancy, who spent 50 years on New York harbor tugboats, drowned after falling overboard. A ceremonial wake followed with high praise and traditional observances. A widow’s friend asked about her finances. the widow humorously notes he left her fifty thousand, and she ironizes on his illiteracy as she reflects on his death.
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Mike Clancy
New York Harbor
Mike
Shure
Button Trimmed Dress Pairs Figure for Date Night
A youthful figure party dress features three glowing buttons atop soft bodice gathers and hip. It showcases season cap sleeves and can be styled in brilliant wool or navy or black crepe with white accents.
Fello Henry Divides House After Divorce
Joe greets Henry after months apart. Henry declares he is divorced and explains the house was split fifty fifty with the inside for his ex and the outside for him. The exchange captures a humorous, low-key anecdote of shared property after separation.
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Henry
Joe
Burning Orbs by the Irate Cop Rhyme
A terse verse frames an exchange where an irate officer asks about the fire and a bold speaker teases back about beauty in the officer’s eyes, delivering a cheeky punchline in a compact exchange.
Pattern No 114 Comes In Various Sizes And Lengths
Pattern No 114 comes in sizes 12 14 18 and 20 with a size 24 cap sleeve. Listed fabric yardage appears as 34 or 29 inches inelt, indicating multiple length options.
Pig Lass: Fifteen to Twenty Percent Die at Birth or Early Life
A study notes a about twenty percent of piglets are born dead or die within the first days after birth, indicating significant losses in early pig production.
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Michell Leisen
Paulette Goddard
Olivia de Havilland
Home Made Cough Syrup Claims Quick Relief and Savings
A vintage ad touts a home mixed cough syrup using sugar or corn syrup with Pinex to create a pint of medicine. It promises rapid relief from coughs due to colds, loosens phlegm, soothes irritated membranes, and claims the blend lasts long and is loved by children. Money back if not satisfactory.
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Waleh
Dodger
Gels
Ham Fisher
Florida
Joe Palooka
Happy Chandler
Durocher
Whirlaway
Jock Whitney
Jock
Food Value Defies Cost in Nutritional Worth
Food value equals nutrition not price with cheap cuts and costly cuts from the same animal sharing the same nourishment. Brown and white eggs provide equal food value, illustrating value rests in nutrients rather than cost.
Pillowcase Designs For Nimble Fingers
Exquisite butterfly and pansy pillowcases make a gift to treasure. Five crocheted butterflies are sewn to the edge of the pillow case and joined in a lace row. Pansy bouquets are embroidered in blues yellows and pale pinks with green leaves. Use the same design on guest towels.
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Sigma LI
JV Venere
Virginia Vale
Joyce Reynolds
Warner Bros
Ture
Janie
Robert Hutton
Jack Baker
Cbs
Errol Flynn
Todd Karns
Lou Hafely
Louis Oliveira
Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Norman McLeod
Daniel Dare
NBC
RKO
Universal Pictures
Archie” Gardner
Duffy's Tavern
Larry Haines
Winecoff
Atlanta
Luckie Street
West 45Th Street Theater
Russel Crouse
Washington
State of the Union
Tom Stokes
Crouse
Stokes
7Th Avenue
Jack Smith
Mark Nelson
John Lewis
Dorothy Parker
Marulyn K. Johnson
Maugham
Thurber
Wedith St
New Yaork
N. Y
Ing
Western America
Peer Eta Coca
Business & Invest
P. G. Box Th
Oaklanr
Calif
Goisu School OF Beauty
Salt Lake
Broadway
Salt Lake City
Utah
South Wells
Chicago
Lydia F Pinkham
Farrot
Pinkham
Hou E. Pinkham
Niga
Scott
Srcous Voisroor
Gaigy Fkest Co
WKS
Vatro-Nol
Elt
Prince Albert
South Wells St
Fune
Bill
Berkeley
Denver
Helena
Ft. Worth
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Seattle
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