Baroday Celebrates Australian Outback Folk Heritage
Percy Jones of St Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne has gathered five years of field songs from bullockies and shearers for BBC producer Geoffrey Bridson. Jones cites songs like The Old Bullock Dray and The Old Gum Tree Canoe, noting many arose around campfires and reflect a distint Australian flavor before European influence dominated.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Melbourne
Australia
Outback
British Broadcasting Corporation
Geoffrey Bridson
Fowler's Bay
Dr. Jones
Soysenrins
Tom Collins
J. O'Neill
Sandringham
Bendigo
Will Roll Against Drones Beef Talk by Poultry Committee
The Bone was pointed at 60 million barnyard drones by America's Poultry Coordinating Committee. Hens and pullets say no but consume about 50 million bushels of grain yearly needed by hungry Europe. The committee urged farmers to slaughter them and appeal to the public to help eat them.
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America
Poultry Co-ordinating Committee
Hunary Europe
Film and TV Notes from Hollywood and Arizona Strands
The article highlights QPLMA WAS piana Marshall as a minor player in An Ideal Husband and notes her connection to Lily Langtry as great aunt inspiration. It reports Gene Autry halting A Little Spanish Town location work in Arizona due to rain, with Tucson Cinecolor filming twice interrupted. It covers Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone planning to adopt two more children, Eve Arden’s fluorescent room decor idea, Faye Emerson considering a comeback, and Rod Cameron preparing knee surgery after current film work.
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Piana Marshall
Sir Alexander Korda
Diana
Lily Langtry
Jersey
Lily
Gene Autry
Arizona
Hollywood
Tucson
Eve Arden
Faye Emerson
Elliot Roosevelt
Rod Cameron
Front pews crowded by cinema habits irritate vicar
Rev Paul Gliddon of Shoreham Kent complains churchgoers crowd back rows for cinema style seating. He says clergy dislike theatres and concert halls inviting rear congregations and urges front seating to avoid distraction.
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Paul Gliddon
Shoreham
Kent
Tick Tock Flynn: Man Hear Ear Ticking Across Room
Greensboro North Carolina textile mill worker Flynn 36 bears rare tinnitus in both ears with ticking every 15 seconds in a quiet room. Navy veteran says no cure exists and he has not been sick in 12 years while many strangers request a listen.
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Tim
Lanky Flynn
Greensboro
North Carolina
Flynn
Navy
Loblige
Tinnitus: ringing in ears a common subjective complaint
Doctors note ringing in the ears, hissing or ticking is a common subjective condition. The article explains that tinnitus commonly affects many people and discusses how awareness and basic management can help sufferers.
Cows in Wardrobes Captivate Buckinghamshire Farm
Widow Barbara Woodhouse dresses her 16 dairy cows to fit the weather at Mandeville. The farmer says the clothes boost milk yield and even her children’s nurse checks the cows before dressing her own offspring. Meanwhile 11 year old Sylvia Long knits a scarf for a pet mouse, finishing it only to abandon it after the mouse encounters the cat.
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Barbara Woodhouse
Mandeville
Buckinghamshire
Mrs. Woodhouse
Sylvia Long
Portchester
Hampshire
Sylvia
Atomic bombs proposed to combat localized disease
Dr. C. A. Tobias of the University of California suggests using tiny atomic bombs to destroy localized disease spots in humans after animal tests. This proposal envisions future medical applications of atomic energy to eradicate diseased tissue.
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C.A. Tobias
University of California
Tiny uranium tests on mice spark feared atomic ideas
At Oak Ridge Tennessee small amounts of uranium 235 were injected into several mice. Three days later the mice were exposed to a neutron beam and the miniature airburst killed them in three weeks. Researchers hoped to use tiny bombs to target diseased tissue in humans. STARLETS Judy Tyler Katie Sampson Elisabeth Mitchell.
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Oak Ridge
Tennessee
Judy Tyler
Katie Sampson
Elisabeth Mitchell
No Fleas On Bikini Dog Report Sparks Laughs
A woman nicknamed Bikini Dog survived blasts and radio activity with no fleas or injuries besides mild near sightedness. Navy scientists observed her for a month and found nothing unusual. James Nestor in St. Louis claims atom blasts made her flea proof.
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Navy
James Nestor
St. Louis
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