Hollywood News Louella Makes Cooper Hemingways Choice
Louella Parsons reports Gary Cooper is set to star in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls with Sam Goldwyn signaling Cooper may move to Paramount. The piece also notes Dorothy Lamour and Greg Bautzer's split and Montgomery's holiday plans with his family as he returns from London.
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Gary
Hemingway
Y. Frank Freeman
Paramount
Sam Goldwyn
Cooper
Yark
Para
Ernest Heming
Big Coop
YORK
INS
Gary Cooper
OB Montgomery
Bob
Montgomery
London
Hollywood
Sidelights of U S Rearmament from A Reporter's Notes
National Defense expert WW Chaplin argues U S defense is not spoiled and training remains rigorous. He notes shortages due to lend lease but describes Third Infantry Division drill at Fort Lewis Washington, where 15,000 soldiers complete a demanding pre breakfast routine with packs, nets, walls, trenches, and rope swings.
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America
Third Infantry
Fort Lewis
Wash
United States
Training Gaps Highlighted By Soldier Humor Amid Tank Push
A soldier humor piece at MacDill Field mocks wooden guns and training shortages while Britain expands tank crews. The U S faces a 1942 target of 26 000 tanks requiring about 125 000 tank soldiers and mass training as factories ramp up production.
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Great Britain
United States
MacDill Field
Fla
Theater Schedule Highlights From Paramount Rialto and More
Daily listings show Paramount presents New Wine and Niagara Falls with showings at 1.15 3.33 5.47 8.01 10.19 and Niagara Falls run times 2.39 7.11 9.25. Iowa screens Suspicion Unexpected Uncle Veloz and Yolanda at 1.4 2.50 and 8.15. State shows Hot Spot at 2.20 4.58 7.36 10.14 and Secrets of the Wastelands at 1.15 3.53 6.31 9.09. Palace hosts Mata Hari at 1.20 4.50 8.20 and Navy Blue and Gold at 2.50 6.20 9.50. Rialto offers Before I Hang at 1.30 5.05 8.20 and Hired Wife at 2.45 6.25 9.40. Strand features Zborov at 7.25 9.40.
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Niagara Falls
Iowa
Veloz
Yolanda
Mata Hari
Rialto
Strand
Zborov
Soldiers' Novelty Bait Tricks Louisiana Fish
CAMP SHELBY Miss. UP says soldiers from the 38th division report catching fish on maneuvers. Catfish took paper wads on hooks, brims were lured by cigarette butts, and both species took bare hooks weighted with finger clips and empty cartridge shells.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Notice of Administrator Appointment in Iowa
On November 18, 1941, Lowell Davis was appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of Mary Elizabeth Davis, late of Linn County Iowa, deceased. All debts should be paid to the administrator, and all claims must be filed with the Linn County District Court Clerk.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Mary Elizabeth Davis
Ilowa
Lowell , Davis
Thanksgiving Eve Night Out Turns Into Big Tab Tale
Walter Winchell notes a college student who took a date to a nightclub on Thanksgiving Eve with a $10 bill. Friends kept topping up the bill, Morgenthau money slipped into pockets, and the final tab hit $39.50 before the student could pay. He had only $6 left for two more dates. The column weaves in tangential gossip about Amanda from Harry Hervey’s School for Eternity, Vogue covers, MGM ad lore, and a Bunker Hill monument tale from Mrs. Roosevelt.
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Swank
Harry Hervey
Amanda
Powers
Betty McLauchlen
F. James Downing
Savannah
Hervey
New York
Vogue
New Orleans Merchant Funds Public Cause Amid Family Tale
A Massachusetts donor gave 10,000 dollars toward a 20,000 dollar goal, with the remaining half arriving from Judah Touro of New Orleans. Mrs. Roosevelt recalls how she told her husband this lesser known American history anecdote that he hadn’t heard before.
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Laurence
Massachusetts
New
Locomotive plunges through drawbridge into canal
A diesel locomotive on the Shenandoah plunged through an open drawbridge into the Indiana Harbor ship canal in East Chicago. Engineer Jack O’Connor of Garrett Indiana died. Thirteen passenger cars stayed upright. six derailed but none overturned. A second locomotive was sent. the train continued after rescue operations. Fog may have obscured the warning signal. An oil tanker was crossing the canal as the incident occurred.
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East Chicago
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
Baltimore and Ohio
Shenandoah
Coast
Chicago
Vesta Kelling AP writer killed in gas explosion
New York AP writer Vesta Kelling, 37, a feature writer for Wide World, AP News Service, died in an accidental gas explosion in her apartment early Wednesday.
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New York
Vesta Kelling
Wide World
Associated Press
New Job for Firemen Gathers East Side Residents
In Cleveland an AP report notes residents on the east side watching as firefighters take on a new assignment. The piece highlights community response and the timing of the change.
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Cleveland
East Side
Firemen Free Woman Trapped Behind Bathtub
Firefighters rushed to a residence where a 44-year-old woman became wedged behind a bathtub while cleaning wallpaper. They freed her by removing the tub fixtures, ending the entrapment.
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