Hurricane Tallulah Shakes Broadway With Dear Charles
Broadway opens the 1954 55 season as Tallulah Bankhead returns to New York in Dear Charles a farce that draws cheers and ten curtain calls Celebrities in the audience boomed with bravo and shouted encore while the cast led by Bankhead Keating Reilly Coote and Klemperer drove the laughs The show centers on Dolores and her three assorted fathers in a comic tale around a bargain painting and family secrets amid a lively stage welcome to the star back in town.
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New York
Tallula
Broadway
Charles
Bankhead
Etttoral
Tealiu
Saad
Dolores
Miss B
Pilar
Tallulah
Fred Keating
Hugh Reilly
Robert Coote
Werner Klemperer
Larry Robinson
Tom Raynor
Grace Raynor
Noel Coward
Autoist jailed after police chase on East Side
Edward Vincent, 20, of Success park, was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 30 days to be served, for driving with a suspended license. Judge Meyer Dworkin ordered six months probation. Patrolman Joseph Fitzpatrick said Vincent ran a stop sign and ignored commands before being captured in Success park.
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Edward Vincent
Apt. 10
Success Park
Meyer Dworkin
Vincent
Joseph Fitzpatrick
Success
Train Crash Kills 10 Students En Route to Civic Work
A New Delhi bound express train collided with a truck jammed with students at a grade crossing eighty miles north of the capital. At least ten people died and eighteen were injured as the students were traveling to a canal site for volunteer civic work.
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New Delhy
India
Solons Split On Senate Call On McCarthy Censure
Two Democratic Senators diverged on whether to recall the Senate before the November elections to act on censure charges against Senator McCarthy. Gore supported reconvening if the committee report is ready soon. McCarran urged delaying until the next Congress.
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Washington
Senate
McCarthy
Gore
D-Tenn
McCarran
D.nev
Knowland
California
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Flanders
R-Vi
Fulbright
D-Ark
Morse
Ind-Ore
Boothe Property Sold on Iranistan Avenue
Deeds filed in the town clerk's office transfer property at 989 Iranistan Avenue from Bridgeport City Trust Company executors of the estates of David B Boothe and Stephen N Boothe to 879 Fairfield Avenue Corporation. Louis E Schopick president and Samuel Schopick secretary were principals for the corporation. The deeds show $33,000 and a related $8,000 mortgage.
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Iranistan Avenue
Bridgeport City Trust Company
David B. Boothe
Stephen N. Boothe
Fairfield Avenue
Louis E. Schopick
Samuel Schopick
Iran Spy Chief Jailed In Sweeping Red Spy Purge
IRAN SPY CHIEF JAILED AS RED TEHRAN. Iran reports arrest of Capt Gholam Hossein Garagozlov alias Mr Blaghadam, top counter intelligence leader in Khuzistan, charged as a Russian agent. About 500 officers seized, potential total over 1,000 as purge widens. Spies extracted US wartime tank gun and uniform data.
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Tehran
Iran
Abadan Oit
Khuzistan
Gholam
Hossein Garagozlov
Abadan
Persian Gulf
Blaghadam
Garagozlov
United States
Tran
Mrs Knowland Recovers After Cerebral Seizure in Oakland
Mrs Helen H Knowland wife of Senator William F Knowland R Cal was reported recovering from a mild cerebral seizure after being stricken unconscious. She was rushed to Peralta hospital yesterday and her husband flew home from Long Beach where he had addressed the Rotary club canceling speaking engagements. She had not been in good health and had helped daughter Estelle depart for Palo Alto to enter Stanford University as a freshman.
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Oakland
Calif
Helen H. Wnowland
William F. Knowland
R-Calif
Peralta Hospital
Knowland
Long Beach
Rotary Club
Robert Mediver
Big Guns Duel North of Quemoy in Formosa Action
Taipei dispatch reports brief naval gunfire exchange between Chinese communist and Nationalist forces on two Tachens islands about 359 miles north of Quemoy. Nationalist and Communist units traded shells, with Communist guns going silent. Nationalist planes and ships continued strikes along the mainland coast near Quemoy for a 15th day, including minor ship and junk losses.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Quemoy
Tachens
Toumen
Gate
Alarm at San Francisco drug store rings after seven years
Ed Scott waited seven years for his home made burglar alarm at his drug store to ring. Yesterday it sounded when he found both back and front doors open. No culprits were in sight and nothing was taken, he said.
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San Francisco
Ed Scott
Four People Injured In Fairfield Car Crash
A Bridgeport man and a New York woman remained under treatment at St. Vincent's Hospital today after a two car crash at 11 am yesterday on the Post road near Unquowa in Fairfield. In good condition are Alex Horvath 37 of 112 Washington terrace and Leona Turner 29 of New York both with head injuries. Treated and released were Nicholas Moore 16 of 876 Howard avenue and Toni Shuster 22 of New York City. Mrs Shuster and Mr Horvath were both cited for violation of state auto laws with summons for a town court hearing October 4.
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Bridgeport
New York
St. Vincent's Hospital
Post Road
Unquowa Road
Fairfield
Alex Horvath
Washington Terrace
Leona Turner
Nicholas Moore
Howard Avenue
Toni Shuster
New York City
Volunteer firemen aid woman after chimney smokes house
Lawrence Borst asked for a donation to help the Grand Boulevard Volunteer Fire Co. Mrs. Alexander Macfarlane donated, then Borst and fellow volunteers returned to clear a clogged chimney that had filled the home with smoke.
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Niskayuna
N. Y
Lawrence Borst
Alexander Macfarlane
Borst
Birs. Macfarlane
Grand Boulevard
Diabetes Linked to Strange Liver Ailment Study
A medical report at the American Chemical Society convention suggests diabetes may stem from a liver problem. Dr. Arthur Mirsky and Gladys Perisutti described insulin destroyed by liver insulinase in experiments using liver tissue and irradiated insulin. They note liver-produced insulinase could trigger diabetes, with diet or physiology potentially altering its levels and offering future control methods.
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Arthur I. Mirsky
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Mirsky
Gladys Perisutti
Bassick Sponsors Blood Bank Tomorrow at South Avenue Plant
The Bassick company will sponsor the Red Cross blood mobile tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. at its South avenue plant. The firm began supporting the blood bank in June 1950 and Bassick employees have donated 1 028 pints in four years. The bank is open to the public and appointments can be made by calling Red Cross ED 50191.
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Bassick Company
Red Cross
South Avenue
Bassick
Dionne Quintuplets Begin New Studies in Montreal
The four remaining Dionne sisters Cecile Yvonne Marguerite and Annette have started new courses at Montreal institutions. Cecile and Yvonne train as nurses at Notre Dame LEsperance hospital in St Laurent while Marguerite studies French literature and sewing at College Marie and Annette pursues music. Emilie died August 6.
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Montreal
Cecile
Yvonne
Notre Dame Ul'esperance Hospital
St. Laurent
Marguerite Bourgeoys
College Marie
Annette
Emilie
Car Kills Mom Of 3 In Five Mile Drag In New Jersey
A 23 year old mother of three died after being struck on Rt 18 and dragged five miles by a car driven by Norman F. Childers 43 of Milltown a Rutgers chemist and councilman. He was charged with causing death by auto after another motorist flagged him down in Sayreville. Police said he did not realize he had struck a person.
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East Brunswick
N. J
Grace Sulivan Frank
New Brunswick
Sayreville
Norman F. Childers
Milltown
Childers
Rutgers Agricultural College
Rt. 18
Morse To Stump For Democrats In November Drive
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon says he will deliver 100 speeches for the Democrats before the November elections. He outlined a speech for today to the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, criticizing Eisenhower’s foreign and domestic policy and urging bipartisan work to advance American interests.
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Long Beach
Calif
Wayne Morse
Ind-ore
Eisenhower
Morse
The
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Congress
Typhoon Smashes U S Saipan Base In Pacific Storm
A roaring typhoon leveled six residential buildings and damaged other structures at the U S base on Saipan. No casualties were reported. Winds near the center reached 12 miles an hour, with the storm moving northwest toward islands between Okinawa and southern Japan.
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Guam
U. S
Saipan
Navy
Okinawa
Japan
Ansonia GI Convicted Of Taking 75 Dollar Bribe
Bremerhaven, Germany. A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to one year in prison dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all Army rights for taking a $75 bribe from a soldier. Sgt. Walter W. Wallick of Ansonia Conn promised a plane ride home in exchange for the money and kept the cash after the ship orders. The case was reported by Pvt. Michael J. Trapiano and Wallick’s sentence awaits review.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Walter W. Wallick
Ts Woodbridge Avenue
Ansonia
Conn
America
Wallick
Michael J. Trapiano
Frankfurt
Bicycle race victim killed in Eire runaway cart mishap
David Weston, a cyclist in an Irish race, died when struck by the shaft of a cart pulled by a runaway horse. Dublin reports.
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David Weston
Eire
Dublio
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