Davis Returns Ignites Debate on All-Time Athlete Rank
Column argues Glenn Davis could join an elite list of multi sport stars. It cites Davis at West Point and compares him with Jim Thorpe Elmer Oliphant Barry Wood Jackie Robinson and Klarry Fisher while noting spring football practice and Notre Dame Army Michigan and other programs shaping the upcoming season.
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Glenn Davis
Red Blaik
Grantland Rice
Glenn
Blaik
Davis
West Point
Jim Thorpe
Jim
Red Man
Carlisle
Elmer Oliphant
West Pointer
Purdue
Oliphant
Elmer
Doak Walker
Charlie Justice
Leon Hart
Emil Sitko
Arnold Galiffa
Midwest
Notre Dame
Michi-gan
Ohio State
East
Army
Cornell
Princeton
Dartmouth
West Coast
California
Washington
Southwest
Michigan
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh
Texas
Frank Leahy
Tragic Vienna Couple's Carousel Tale Comes to New York
Billy Rose recounts a Viennese surgeon and his wife who fled Nazis with their son on a carousel in Vienna. Captured, the boy rode free after grabbing a brass ring, while the parents were taken to a slave labor camp. Surviving and later immigrating to New York, they spend summers near the Central Park carousel, the husband now fragile but the wife devoted to him.
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Central Park Zoo
Vienna
Storm
New York
Central Part
Otto
Frances Gif ford Makes Return To Paramount Screen
Frances Gif ford recovers after a serious auto crash and returns to film in Paramount's Riding High opposite Bing Crosby. The race track story features a troubled owner and a strong supporting cast including Coleen Gray and Oliver Hardy. Jean Simmons reportedly seeks better terms for Quo Vadis leading role with other stars discussed.
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Paramount
Bing Crosby
Capra
Crosby
Bing
Coleen Gray
William Demarest
Jimmy Gleason
Gene Lockhart
Charles Bickford
Oliver Hardy
Jean Simmons
Stewart Granger
M-G-M
Robert Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Perplexing riddle in Civil War spy tale unfolds
Lt. Boynton of Massachusetts volunteers suspects Alice Struthers of leaking Confederate information. After weeks of questioning, Lt. Boynton drums up a plan to deport her, hoping to stop the leak. A hidden cipher in Alice letters is found decades later on a faded postage stamp.
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T. Jeff Boynton
Massachusetts Volunteers
Finn Lacey
Boynton
Lacey
Ieak
Alice Struthers
Lt. Boynton
Johnson
Miss Struthers
Georgia
Savannah
Sammy Kaye Plans Navy Recruiting Radio Series
Sammy Kaye will record two series of fourteen radio shows to boost U S Navy recruiting. The programs will air on about 1500 stations nationwide starting in July with George Hicks as the announcer. Ben Grauer reports strong reader letters praising his bachelor stance. over 60 percent from women.
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Sammy Kaye
United States Navy
George Hicks
Ben Grauer
Ben
George Fisher to Star in Dupont Film The Dungeon
George Fisher known for CBS Hollywood Whispers and NBC Confidential Closeups will debut on the screen in E A Dupont’s The Dungeon. He co stars with John Ireland Mercedes McCambridge and Emlyn Williams in this new project.
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George Fisher
Fisher
Hollywood Whispers
CBS
West Coast
NBC
E. A. Dupont
John Ireland
Mercedes McCambridge
Emlyn Williams
Sharing News With Your Home Town Newspaper
This advice column urges readers to tip the hometown paper with news from their lives. It stresses that reporting social events, illnesses, and local happenings strengthens community ties and fosters friendship, rewarding both guests and residents with a sense of civic duty.
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A compact list of crossword hints mixing across and down entries. Clues range from fragment and vestige to percolated and bead of a rosary with misprints and partial names such as Constella Gon and Anamah.
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Ireland
Last Week's Wordplay: Short Sleep and Eskimo Toot
Puzzle entries from last week include a clue about a brief rest and a playful term for an Inuit wind instrument. Isthmus in Southeast Asia appears as a cryptic hint.
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Isthmus
SE Asia
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