Women in War Work Interview: Ada Sisco at Severn Company
Ada Sisco of Cedar Rapids talks about war work at the E. E. Severn company edgeing aluminum plates from eight to four thirty five days a week and Saturdays mornings She shares family life ration points reading habits and wartime views noting fellow workers and relatives in service and plans for travel postwar.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Falls
Robert Crew
Farragut
Idaho
Radio Theater
Bing Crosby
Frankie
Russia
Roosevelt
Mr. Churchill
Anthony Eden
Servicemen Ask For More Personal Letters from Home
Ruth Millett urges wives to write openly and affectionately to their husbands serving abroad. A veteran actor notes letters that say I love you comfort soldiers, while long separation can lead to impersonal notes. He suggests keeping a carbon copy of early letters as a model for future ones to bridge the gap of separation.
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Ruth Millett
Gazette
New York World-Telegram
Fredric March
Sparkling Motifs Pattern 767 For Embroidered Cloths
Pattern 767 offers a transfer of 14 motifs suitable for cloths towels scarfs and pillow cases with stitch sizes from 4x9 inches to 24%4x3%4 inches. Includes tasteful embroidery motifs usable on many articles. Price 15 cents. Send coins and pattern number with name and address to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept 549 West Randolph Street Chicago 80 TI.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
West
Randolph Street
Chicago
Nicholas Destroyer Receives Presidential Unit Citation
At Pearl Harbor Admiral Nimitz awarded the destroyer USS Nicholas a Presidential Unit Citation for aiding the rescue of over 700 Helena survivors near Kolombangara in the Solomons on July 5 6. Commander R T S Keith accepted the award as Commander of the Nicholas. Captain Andrew J Hill led the rescue voyage.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Agadmiral
Chester W. Nimitz Friday
U.S.S. Nicholas
U.S.S. Helena
Kolombangaraee
Solomons
Nicholas
Helena
R. T. S. Keith
Andrew J. Hill
Los Angeles
Kolombangara
Five children die in Chicago fire at home
Five children aged five months to 11 years perished in a Chicago house fire early Saturday as their parents worked at a war plant. The blaze gutted the residence leaving four survivors and injuring others.
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Chicago
Conserving Kitchen Funds From Camp Kilmer Tips
From Camp Kilmer New Jersey come housewife fashion tips that save money and waste. Cabbage and lettuce outer leaves and celery tops are chopped into salads. Beet greens boost spinach lovers. Apple and citrus parings make jelly and marmalade. Potatoes cooked in skins cut waste and boost value. Bake biscuits square with a floured knife. Celery seed in dough flavors meat pies. Use a biscuit mix for dumplings or dumplings atop stewed tomatoes with bacon. Add celery seeds to corn for flavor and try corn in waffles with creamed ham peas or mushrooms.
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RMY
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Clark in Narrow Escape Under Fire
CBS correspondent Farnsworth Fowle reported Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark came under direct enemy fire during a visit to the Anzio beach-head. Several men around him were badly wounded but Clark remained calm and helped care for the injured.
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New York
INS
CBS
Farnsworth Fowle
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Anzio Bay
Fowle
The North Star film review from Iowa theater
Film critique praises The North Star for its strong cast led by Walter Huston and Dana Andrews. The story follows a Russian village resisting invasion with courage and cunning as war arrives and a German medical unit intrudes. The director Milestone is lauded for balancing dual plots and maintaining a steady tone despite some bookish design.
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North Star
Walter Huston
Anne Baxter
Ann Harding
Walter Brennan
Dane Andrews
Jane Withers
Dean Jogeer
Farley Granger
Samuel Goldwyn
Lewis Milestone
Iowa Theater
Gene Farmer
Lillian Hellman
Dana Andrews
Milestone
Gerald L. K. Smith
Kiev
Luftwaffe
Eric von Stroheim
Karin
Martin Koslek
Huston
Dean Jagger
Jane
Withers
On Broadway with Walter Winchell We Hadn’t Heard It Before
A collage of Winchell bits and gags touches on wartime humor and show business lore. Jokes reference Nazis, a golf pro, libel cases, ballads, and the Statue of Liberty while lampooning bigotry and celebrity life through punchlines and witty asides.
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Enga Channel
Fatso
No Time for Love at Paramount Sparks a Dreamy Studio Romance
Claudette Colbert stars as a magazine photographer who clashes with her editor yet excels behind the camera. She falls for Fred MacMurray, a sandhog, after saving his life in a tunnel, as a film teases romance amid industry and danger in a lavish cinema tale.
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Claudette Colbert
Irene
Miss Colbert
Mirror Magazine
Fred MacMurray
Colbert
MacMurray
Claudette
Gertrude Lawrence
Freddie
Fred
Alka Chase
Hollywood Lupino Henreid Team Again in Made in Heaven
Lovella Parsons reports Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid will be teamed again in Made in Heaven a romantic film from an unpublished Muriel Roy Bolton play after The Very Thought of You. The piece notes Claudette Colbert’s test scene, Fred’s engineering twist, and jokes about fashion amid the Hollywood bustle.
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Follywood
INS
Leonard Warren
Judy Garland
Betty Hutton
Ida Lupino
Jennifer Jones
Warners
Ida
Paul Henreid
Heaven
Muriel Roy Bolton
Edgar A. Guest The Poet of the People
Poem reflects on early spring contrasts with winter hardship urging resilience and faith. It emphasizes living day to day with duty and prayer, hoping for renewal as nature waits for warmer days.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Weekend Film Times Across Local Theaters
Paramount presents No Time for Love with showings at 140 345 545 750 955 on topics IOWA shows The North Star 1230 340 650 1005 Swing Out the Blues 215 530 840 State offers Ravaged Earth 1 321 542 803 1024 Adventure in Troq 217 438 659 920 Palace screens The Moon Is Down 220 545 920 Young and Willing 1 425 8 midnight show 1050 Rialto features Bordertown Gunfighter 310 615 920 Boss of Big Town 1 405 710 1015 Times lists DuBarry Was a Lady 302 625 955 Night Mare 132 459 826 Strand shows Heart of the Rio Grande 148 435 726 1027 The Stork Pays Off 259 546 840 Marion screens Spitfire 2 518 836 The Heat's On 330 648 1011 Midnight show 1150
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North Star
Rialto
DuBarry
Strand
Rio Grande
Marion
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