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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
5
An author discusses how science frames moral decisions and social rights over individual ones. The piece explores color choices in menswear, telepathy skepticism, and how life is shaped by intelligent choice, noting increasing human agency beyond environmental factors.
Hollywood gossip notes Brenda Joyce, fresh from a college classroom to a major screen role, with a suitor from UCLA planning marriage after he makes his way in business, while reflections on the uncertain cost of fame appear. Other stars Joan Davis and Fred MacMurray are briefly mentioned in character observations.
In a lively column, Hollywood figures Loretta Young George Brent and Gary Cooper loom as style and whimsy icons. It notes Louis Bromfield demanding work limits in his Fox contract, studio noises at Gable Lombard ranch, and a playful Louise Campbell anecdote with Horace MacMahon.
At the theaters Paramount presents The Jones Family in Hollywood They Asked for It with Joy Hodges and William Lundigan Iowa shows Parents on Trial with Jean Parker Johnny Downs Boris Karloff stars in The Mystery of Mr Wong State offers Shirley Temple in Susannah of the Mounties Dog Bull Drummond's Secret Police with John Howard Heather Angel and Reginald Denny Palace presents Zaza with Claudette Colbert Pacific Liner Rialto screens Down in Arkansaw with the Weaver brothers Pinky Tomlin June Storey Evelyn Venable Craig Reynolds and Female Fugitive The President’s expenses and White House upkeep total about 450000 annually King George’s civil list is 2888900.
The National Safety Council reports a 7 percent drop in highway fatalities for January through May 1939, saving 840 lives compared with 1938. May deaths totaled 2,330, down 2 percent from May 1938, with 40 states reporting and North Atlantic states leading in reductions.
Los Angeles report says a settlement check to Ann Cooper Hewitt, tied to her San Francisco heiress image, bounced as details of the Hewitt case surface. The story hints at marital and financial tensions affecting the settlement.
She says she gave a $6,000 check to Gene Bradstreet, former bar steward, as a property settlement and later brought the check to the district attorney's office claiming it proved worthless. Separately, notes about Mizar describe its close companion star and their vast distance from Earth and the Sun.
A narrator describes a woman hoarding winter clutter for a summer cottage. Lamps, mattresses, a cracked aquarium, a clock that won’t run, puzzles, and random salvage fill a car as the speaker questions the waste then accepts the haul with a final resigned “Be cause.”
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