Jackie Gleason and peers stir TV chatter and stage changes
Broadway Tidbits sketch Jackie Gleason guesting with Jack Benny and a proposed Gleason Benny feud, plus a new Gleason show set called The Conventioneers with Art Carney. Also notes about Polly’s age, a cancer education cartoon Horizons of Hope, and the dismantling of the Bond waterfall in Times Square with a new sign planned by Douglas Leigh.
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TV Toppers Don McNeill Breakfast Club
A note about Don McNeill of ABC TV's Breakfast Club highlighting a trend where today’s kindergartners enter school with two letters of the alphabet already learned, a contrast with past generations.
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Dorothy Dandridge Downsized to Payday of $15000 a Week
The star of Carmen Jones commands a $15000 weekly singing fee despite not singing on screen. Polly Bergen explains earnings flow through managers with a weekly $50 allowance, while bills and salaries go to a business structure. They discuss costs of staging and future acts.
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Science Shrinks Piles Without Surgery with Bio Dyne
An advertisement from New York reports a new healing substance Bio-Dyne used in Preparation H that shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. Doctors observed striking improvement over months in many cases. the ointment costs 98 cents per tube with applicator and a money back guarantee.
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New York
N. Y
Eneg. V.s. Pat
Stars and TV Bets Highlight Peggy King and Friends
Peggy King is riding high with TV and film offers after her George Gobel show success and a hit recording Make Yourself Comfortable. Eddie Anderson stars in The Bull Drew Aces, a wide screen all Negro musical Western, Rochester Productions producing.
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Weekend Mon Theater Time Listings
The Gazette lists today theater schedules with Paramount White Christmas at 1 30 4 20 7 05 9 50. Iowa Bengal Brigade Paid To Kill. State Human Jungle Two Guns and a Badge. Times Trouble in the Glen Admiral Was a Lady. Palace Dial M for Murder Yankee Pasha. Marion Black Shield of Falworth Hitchhike to Happiness.
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Piggly Wiggly Plans Second Cedar Rapids Store Opening
Piggly Wiggly will open its second Cedar Rapids supermarket Tuesday at 2500 Sixteenth Avenue SW near Highway 30 and 149. The 16000 square foot store inside the Iowa Tractor and Machinery Building features a 150 car parking lot and a gravity conveyor system delivering groceries to a car port. The store will be called The Store on Top of the Hill and operates daily 9 am to 9 pm except Sunday. roses for women and balloons for children mark the grand opening.
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Piggly Wiggly Expands with 28th Store
Rowland announced the new sstore as the chain's twenty eighth location. Piggly Wiggly operates stores in Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Wise old fellow quote on fear from Eisenhower remark
President Eisenhower cited a “wise old fellow” saying centralization is the refuge of fear. officials dispute the attribution as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has no matching entry and aides are unsure who was quoted. Report notes a separate Hollywood rumor about a West Coast jeweler commissioned to make a miniature model.
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Yvonne de Carlo
Munich
Yvonne
William Dieterle
Hannah Rucker
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White House
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Hollywood
White House charm bracelets and squirrel in the news
The piece notes Mrs. Eisenhower’s jewelry craze for the Columbine III charm bracelet with many gifts mailed in, a White House squirrel incident involving a tourist car and a quick recovery by a guide, plus Secret Service agents’ clothing expenses and allowances long cut by Congress and their need to maintain wardrobes for formal duties.
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