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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
4
Hollywood reports MGM paid a rich price for Louis Bromfield novel Mrs Parkington. Greer Garson will star as Susie Parkington in a Cosmopolitan serial and Benny Goodman is attached to a separate project, with Roger’s casting noted for Powers Model.
Quarrels and reunions swirl as Marie Wilson prepares for divorce from Allan Nixon after a April wedding. Jimmy Stewart returns briefly from furlough as Ginger Rogers performs on screen. Mrs Lum suffers a broken leg while Cobina Wright Sr. dazzles in a Spanish shawl dress.
Iowa presents The Wife Takes a Flyer at 1 15 4 15 7 15 10 15 and Two Yanks in Trinidad at 2 45 5 45 8 50 Paramount shows Reap the Wild Wind at 1 48 4 25 7 02 9 39 ghort subjects at 1 15 3 52 6 29 9 06 State screens Gone with the Wind at 12 39 4 30 8 21 Palace offers The Great Dictator at 2 20 5 50 9 20 Henry Aldrich for President at 1 10 4 40 8 15 Rialto shows Cracked Nuts at 2 55 5 50 8 50 and Invisible Ghost at 1 20 4 15 7 10 10 05 Times presents Rise and Shine at 2 41 5 54 9 07 Cadet Girl at 1 4 13 7 26 10 39 Marion runs Steel against the Sky at 2 05 5 23 8 45 and All that Money Can Buy at 3 13 6 30 9 53.
Edgar A. Guest reflects on golf as a test of skill and nerve while tying themes to wartime duty. The poem notes leaders like Hirohito are hidden from their people, and warns that victory requires strength and sacrifice to secure freedom for youth.
The Very Rev J J Toomey pastor of Immaculate Conception church was named a domestic prelate by Pope Pius announced by Archbishop Beckman of Dubuque. Articles filed for Manii corporation list Sutherland Dows as president treasurer and C S Woodward as vice president secretary. Mrs Frank C Byers Mrs Harry Hunter Mrs David Beardsley Mrs David Turner and Mrs Howard Green traveled to Newton for a one day event.
The Newton Country Club hosts an invitation golf tournament. Dr and Mrs Fred Bailey and their daughter Alice travel to Quebec and then sail to Europe. Lynne E White formerly of Cedar Rapids is named superintendent of the Chicago division of the Erie railroad. Miss Gyda Bates goes to a national nurses convention in Seattle and plans Alaska travel. Monte Smith heads to Washington DC to join the Interstate Commerce Commission claims department. John S Fly of Cedar Rapids is appointed a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in Iowa.
At the Cedar Rapids Commercial club annual meeting in Des Moines the fifteenth trade extension excursion set out from Union station this morning. About 90 men traveled on the train accompanied by the Fifty third regiment band for a four day tour through Central Iowa.
Eve Curie Jeanne Cagney Lieut J Bryan and wife, Dean Murphy with FDR mimic, Howard Lindsays and Paul Hartmans seen around New York. Mountbatten stays at Lowell. Billy Conn tax talk. Hedy Lamarr Regis Gardiner reunite. Subways Miss June and 500000 hot dogs daily cited amid burlesk closings and tuberculosis losses.
Puzzle solution fills a horizontal and vertical word grid with references to ministries, metals and species. Clues span chemistry abbreviations to zoological genus terms and language notes, yielding a themed crossword type entry.
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