Broadway with Walter Winchell reaches eclectic mix of West Side gossip
The column notes Edna Shelley author of Pick-Up Girl in a Michael Todd package awaiting box office crowds on Forty-eighth Street. It mentions Ernest Hemingway's plan to join Martha Gelhorn in London, Maj. Powers on models, Jane Pickens rallying support for tots, and various showbiz tidbits including Mae West, Irving Rahal, and public figures.
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West Side
Edna Shelley
Michael Todd
Forty-eighth Street
Ernest Heming- Way
Jon
Martha Gelhorn
London
Atlantic
John Powers
Jane Pickens
Lynn Phillips
Doctors Hospital
Mary Philips
Harper's Bazaar
Oscar Levant
Mae West
Gypsy Rose Tees
Sherman
Stork Club
Billingsley
John
Feats and Fads Float Through NYC Night Life
Jinxed acts top the charts with A Highland Fling leading the listings as acts like Across the Board Allah Be Praised and All in Favor draw anxious Showmen. A town vignette on George Washington Bridge captures summer crowds while dancers and piano melodies spill from venues like La Conga and Fifty-ninth Street shows.
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Manhattan
la Conga
Palace Theater
Peter Aroesque
Fifty-ninth
Vth
Lexington Avenue
Stork
French admiral given life term for Bizerte surrender
Vice Admiral Edmond Derrien aged 61 was sentenced by a French military tribunal to life imprisonment for high treason over the surrender of the Bizerte naval base in Tunisia to German forces. The two day trial behind closed doors cited orders from superiors as his primary defense while he received a punishment described as perpetual reclusion lifelong solitary confinement.
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Algiers
Edmond Derrien
Bizerte
Tunisia
French National Committee
Derrien
German "Plane" A Rocket Craft Rumor In Sweden
Rumors spread in southwest Sweden that a German object crashing near Kivik may be a rocket plane or secret weapon. Observers noted no engine parts or crew remains, fueling speculation as searchers investigated the mysterious object.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Kivik
Unidentified Craft Crashes Amid Reports of Odd Roar
Eyewitnesses described an object that hurtled from the sky and was definitely not a plane. Many people reported hearing an unusual roar in the air just before the crash that did not sound like a normal engine.
Notice of Appointment Executrix in Linn County Iowa
Notice is hereby given that on May 4 1944 Freda Williams was appointed and qualified as Executrix of the estate of Frank L Williams late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. Those having claims against the estate must present them duly authenticated in the office of the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Wills A Glessrow Attorney.
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State of
Iowa
Lann County
Frank L. Wiliams
Iate
Es Tate
Linn County
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