Adventures of Topper Debuts on NBC Tonight
Radio schedule notes NBC and WHO present Adventures of Topper a summer replacement starring Roland Young in the 7:30 to 8 p.m. slot with Mrs Topper played by Hope Emerson and music by Johnny Augustine and his orchestra. The program follows the Topper films and is part of a broader NBC WHO lineup including Listen on Thursday and other shows.
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Adventures of
Topper
NBC Tonight
Roland Young
NBC
WHO
Dinah Shore
Thorne Smith
Young
Prgouuctvis
Dinduway
Young and
Hope Emerson
Mrs. Topper
Kerbys
Paul Mann
Frances Chaney
Johnny Augustine
Roy Shield and
Company
Frank Morgan
Variations by Van Cleave Returns on 9 PM Slot
Headliners Tonight presents Variations by Van Cleave arranged and conducted by Nathan Van Cleave returning this Thursday at 9 p.m. on Blue and EXEL. Movie actor Leo Carrillo will guest on the Rudy Vallee show at 9 30 p.m. over NBC and WHO.
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Frank Morgan
Bing Crosby
van Cleave
Nathan van Cleave
Leo Carrillo
Rudy Vallee
NBC
WHO
Radio Program Schedule Fragment Notes Likely 1940s
A partial OCR sport of radio listings shows many station call signs such as MT CBS NBC WMAQ WGN KXEL and WMT with times like 7a and 6:15 pm. The fragment mentions hosts Joe Lucia Prine and Jack Kirkwood and references a “Did you know” segment, but most details are unreadable.
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CBS
Lucia & Co
WMAQ
NBC
WGN
Joe Wgn
MBS
Kxel Rangers Werm
KXFL
WMT
Harry Prine
WHO
KXEL
Sistate
D.m
Kees
O.m
Jack Kirkwood Exel
Radio program guide fragment from June 8 1965
A jagged list of radio show time slots and hosts across stations WMT WGN KXEL EXEL and others. It reads like a midday schedule with programs such as Morning Forum Palm Nets News and various talk and music variety segments.
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We Farm Forum
WHO Palm Nets
WGN
KXEL
Decorah Boy Hurt In Abandoned Plant Accident
Special to The Gazette Decorah Iowa John Vine twelve year old son of Arthur Vine suffered a fractured skull when a gas tank fell on him at the abandoned Gross alcohol plant He was playing in the ruins and was taken to Decorah hospital with a serious condition
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Gazette
Decorah
John Vine
Arthur Vine
Gross Alcohol
Labor union plans Friday meeting to vote on Dodge plant strike
Detroit dispatch reports War Labor Board disputes division director George Bowles saying Local 495 of the Drop Forgers union will hold a mass meeting Friday at 5 p.m. to vote on ending the strike at the Chicago Dodge plant.
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Detroit
George Bowles
War Labor Board Disputes Division
Drop Forgers Union
AFL
Chicago
Robinson Saved From Execution
President Truman commuted the death sentence of Thomas H. Robinson Jr from the electric chair to life imprisonment after a clemency recommendation by Attorney General Francis Biddle. Robinson, convicted of abducting Mrs. Alice Speed Stall for a 1934 $50,000 ransom, faced execution in the Kentucky state penitentiary but will be returned to Alcatraz. Senator Chandler assisted in the commutation.
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Washington
Truman
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Louisville
Justice Department
Francis Biddle
Department
Biddle
Robert E. Hogan
A. B Chandler
Robinson
United States, Supreme Court
Kentucky State Penitentiary
Alice Speed Stall
Stoll
Western Kentucky
Alcatraz Prison
Trucker Dies in Sideswipe West of Iowa City
Lloyd E. Reynolds of Cumberland Iowa died in a highway 6 sideswipe crash 12 miles west of Iowa City. L. J. Kapfer of Oxford driving a Standard Oil truck was severely bruised but survived. The White Bros tractor trailer left the road and crushed the cab and motor under a load of shelled popcorn.
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Iowa City
Lloyd E. Reynolds
Cumberland
White Bros
L. J. Kapfer
Oxford
Standard Oil Company
Reynolds
Six of Tama County Family in Service
DES MOINES AP The Tice family of Gladbrook Tama county stands fully in military service. Lillian Tice Baldwin joined the WAC at Fort Des Moines, while her husband Dick E. Baldwin serves as a torpedoman in the Pacific. Linden Tice and Louis Tice are in Germany and Florida respectively, Lloyd Tice is a seaman third class, and Nancy Tice is a WAC sergeant at Fort Des Moines. Mrs Baldwin notes that all members of her 1942 Gladbrook high school class are in service.
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Florida
Lloyd Tice
Nancy Tice
WAC
Fort Des Moines
Baldwin
Gladbrook
Mahan Lindquist Get S U S Appointments
IOWA CITY AP Dr Bruce E Mahan appointed acting director of the University of Iowa summer session and Prof E F Lindquist named acting dean of the college of education. They fill roles formerly held by Prof E T Peterson who takes a leave of absence to serve as deputy chief of the academic division of the U S Army college in England.
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Iowa City
Bruce E. Mahan
University of Iowa
E. F. Lindquist
College of Education
E. T. Peterson
U. S. Army College
England
U S Transport Denial Over Moroccan Troop Claim
Cairo AP reports Maj. Gen. B F Giles commander US air forces in the Middle East denied a Stars and Stripes Rome edition story claiming American planes transported Moroccan troops to quell an Algerian revolt between May 8 and 16.
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Cairo
B. F. Giles
United States
Middle East
Rome
Stars and Stripes
$800,000 Grant Opened for Des Moines Municipal Airport
Des Moines officials learned from the federal government that $800,000 allocated for grading paving and related work at the municipal airport is now available. The War Production board has been asked to authorize immediate start of the work.
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Des Moines
War Production Board
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Art’s
Victor
Columbia
Bluebird
Capitol
Continental
Waterloo Navy Man In Pacific Notified Of Daughter Illness
Mrs. Richard Peel learned that her Navy husband in the Pacific has been notified of his daughter's illness. Diana Peel, aged 3, is gravely ill with leukemia. The Red Cross and Navy officials have been trying to contact the father for days while he recovers from wounds and remains unreachable.
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Waterloo
Pacific
Richard Peel
Lukemia
Diana
Red Cross
Navy
Hoover Pleads for Privileges for Boys
CHICAGO UP Three million young boys have become confined dynamos roaming city sidewalks as civilization limits youth privileges Hoover told at the Chicago Boys Clubs anniversary dinner He said urban density and modern life curb nature outlets for boyish energy and that parents cannot bear sole responsibility for morals a public duty.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Chicago Boys Clubs, Inc
Hoover
Boys Clubs of America
First Army Vets Arrive at Fort Sheridan on furlough
Nineteen officers and 89 enlisted men veterans of the American First army arrived at Fort Sheridan Illinois on a Wednesday to begin 20 day furloughs before transfer to the Pacific. The contingent, attached to the head quarters company, are the first of the army to arrive here and come from Michigan Illinois Wisconsin or Iowa.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
First Army
France
Germany
Pacific
Michigan
Ulinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Landings Seal Off Davao Gulf
Eighth Army troops and warships closed off the Davao Gulf in the Philippines landing at Cape San Augustin and Balut Island with air support. Destroyer guns and aircraft backed the operation as U.S. forces advanced along the Davao area amid minimal enemy resistance.
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Eighth Army
Davao Gulf
Philippines
Cape San Augustin
Mindanao
Balut Island
Davao Province
Sarangani Bay
13Th
Roscoe Wood
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