Battle of the Sexes features radio and celebrity bosses
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports Tuesday night’s battle on radio at 8 with NBC and WHO carrying the program emceed by Walter O Keefe. Bosses include Dale Carnegie Clarence Budington Kelland and Samuel Pryor with secretaries shown by Abigail Connell Frances Schooner and Selma Freid.
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NBC
WHO
Walter O'Keefe
Dale Carnegie
Clarence Budington Kelland
Samuel Pryor
Pan-American Airlines
Abigail Connell
Frances Schooner
Selma Freid
May 4 1942 and May 5 1943 Radio Schedule Fragments
Historical program guide fragment lists day parts from morning to night across stations WGN WMT WHO KXEL and others. Entries mention news devotions movie stars music variety shows and talk segments with scattered times and show titles such as Singin' Sam Arthur Hale and Burns and Allen.
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WMT
KXAEL
WGN
Jim Poole
Lonefellows
KXEL
Feea
Inter Ocean Girls Chorus Sings at Y Tonight
Inter Ocean Girls Chorus directed by Miss Maurine Harablin performs at 8 15 PM at the YWCA for Music Week. Soloists Miss June De Wees and Miss Ann Rees appear. readings by Miss Lucille Hamlin. and pianos by Richard Haddy and Chester Wetzel.
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Inter-Ocean Girls’ Chorus
Y.W.C.A
Maurine Harablin
Jerome Kern
Hupfeld
June de Wees
Sweet and Low
Ann Rees
Irving Berlin
Lucille Hamlin
Richard Haddy
Chester Wetzel
Pulitzer Award To Omaha Paper
The Omaha World-Herald won the 1942 Pulitzer for public service for its statewide scrap metal collection campaign aiding war industries. Other prizes went to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times for reporting from the Southwest Pacific and Forrest W. Seymour of the Des Moines Register for editorial writing.
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NEW York
Omaha
Neb
World-Herald
Hanson W. Baldwin
New York Times
Southwest Pacific
Forrest W. Seymour
Des Moines
Register and Tribune
Omaha World-Herald
Nebraska
Telegraphic reporting honors in national affairs awards
The North American Newspaper Alliance awards Ira Wolfert for telegraphic reporting on the fifth Battle of the Solomons and George Weller for a graphic account of a pharmacist’s mate performing an emergency appendectomy at sea. Poetry awards go to Robert Frost for A Witness Tree. Esther Forbes and Samuel Eliot Morison win prose and biography prizes.
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United States
Ira Wolfert
North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc
George Weller
Chicago Daily News
Wolfert
The
Solomons
Ser Asteeed
Banive
Norw R Lsa
New York Hessa Tribune
Capitol
White House
New England
Robert Frost
Esther Forbes
Paul Revere
Samuel Eliot Morison
Christopher Columbus
William Schumann
Iowan Convicted of Murder of Teacher in Utah Trial
A Utah federal court jury found Leroy E. Ritchey of Gowie Iowa guilty of murder in the first degree for the slaying of a berr venack schoolteacher. The jury recommended mercy by sparing the death penalty.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Leroy E. Ritchey
Gowie
McNutt Cancels National Job Stabilization Extension
War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt canceled plans for a nationwide employment stabilization order. He said regional agreements now in place render a national extension unnecessary, noting only three of twelve regions lack coverage and will implement plans soon.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
WMC
CIO
McNutt
Manpower Commission
Vichy reports Nazi plan to invade Britain
Madrid dispatch cites Vichy sources claiming the German general staff prepared an invasion of the British Isles as a response to the failed Russian front. The report says Hitler favors a strong western front, an aerial onslaught, and a winterless campaign, with Heinz Guderian overseeing winter maneuvers and an invasion force of 80 to 100 divisions.
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Madrid
France
Great Britain
United Press
Vichy
Britain
Hitler
Russia
Europe
British Isles
Balkan
Heinz Guderian
Germpany
Brooklyn Apartments Blasted by Bullets From Anti Air Gun
Three Brooklyn apartment houses were struck by bullets from an anti aircraft gun. Army officials later said the bullets were fired accidentally. No injuries were reported though plaster was damaged and bullets lodged in floors. The incident followed a Sunday air raid alarm that lasted after the alarm had ended.
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New York
Brooklyn
Army
Radio Berline
Eastern Defense Command
First Army
Radio
Berlin
United Press
Keystone Flyer Among 58 Decorated for Air Strikes
Fifty eight American airmen from a bombardment group were awarded the Air Medal for 25 plus operational sorties in New Guinea. Recipients include Lieut Robert T. Vanot of Keystone, Ia and Edgar L. Pillard of Dubuque among others earning recognition for facing heavy ground fire and fighter interception.
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New Guinea
Air Force
Robert T. and
Nat Ager C Vanot
Eystone
Edgar L. Pillard
Dubuque
Governor urges Rotary to tighten public service role
Governor Hickenlooper told Cedar Rapids Rotarians service clubs fill a vital need as wartime strain mounts. He praised public spirited meetings and urged leadership to guide public opinion, while noting Iowa faces seasonal labor pressures and the war effort drawing praise from across the state. A Cornell panel and Virgil Hancher urged balanced foreign policy and world cooperation, with discussions on trade, international banking, arbitration, and postwar resources. The event wrapped with a Roosevelt Hotel banquet and a Spencer talk on wartime progress and new tech like turbo electric superchargers.
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Rotary International
Cedar Rapids
Florence O’keefe
Gov. Hickenlooper
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Hancher
Councils of Nations
United States
India
England
Visionary flight and weapons feats cited in 1940s talk
Spencer describes future air travel with visibility through fog and night, while mountains become non hazards. He notes a battleship blueprint weighs 17 tons and a bomber requires 100 lamps and 75 motors. He mentions a Rogers gun used to burn through armor and hit tanks, active against Rommel.
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Spencer
Spencer Re
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