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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1948
Page
13
Inez Gerhard notes Portia Faces Life reinforces the intelligence of American women. Mona Kent writes the NBC daytime serial starring Lucille Wall. The show features Portia in court and reveals how a husband’s movie work influenced a trial.
Lucille Wall discusses scenario writer life while Paul Stewart critiques stubble acting in Crime Photographer. Marx Brothers film Blondes Up shoots at United Artists. Marion Hutton debuts as a blonde. John Agar studies Broadway, Irene Rich enjoys silent-era memories in New York. Frank Sinatra and Romo Vincent plan re filming Fatty Arbuckle comedies. Carmen Johnson, once Asia in Mrs. Wiggs, now stars in My Dream Is Yours. Larry Robinson darkens his hair for Life With Mother role. CBS Everyone Wins quiz pits state nicknames and flowers against mottoes and music questions.
A theater of politics parallels 1948 campaigns with Truman and Barkley against Dewey and Warren. Critics joke about casting strings like Hammerstein and Berlin while highlighting show business as a metaphor for election dynamics. A New Jersey judge bank VP is jailed for $637,000 theft amid racing slang.
A writer argues for tearing down the present complex federal machine in favor of a simple, citizen serving system led by former President Herbert Hoover. The piece criticizes patchwork additions and minority-driven changes, calling for a constitutional foundation and a streamlined, cheaper mechanism designed to meet national needs.
The list presents quirky assertions about finger snapping signals, a 200 mile length, Colombia as a location, and measurements of the average human heart and a note on wolverines. It ends with hedged answers about extent and a clarification that the wolverine is a weasel.
At the Afton substation farm the University of Wyoming reports 11 weekly irrigation applications yielded 8,450 pounds of hay per acre, over a ton more than two alternative methods. Irrigating as needed produced 8,000 pounds and every two weeks 6,275 pounds.
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