24 Nov 1960
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1960
Page
1
TV critic Marie Terre discusses canned laughter and public reaction in comedy. Jack Benny defends the practice noting it supports audience cues and preserves timing, while acknowledging moments when laughter tracks are necessary due to production limits. Benny says a ban would force broader, less subtle humor.
A local 6 movie event ends with Merig Johnny prevailing in the Hot Rod race segment at Towa venue, outpacing rivals and earning top honors in a competitive late afternoon program.
Burlington city council rejected Charles C. Seaman's protest of the street paving assessment on his own lots. Seaman, a contractor, had been the winning bidder for the paving project.
In Montgomery Alabama warnings of violence marred the Tuskegee Institute Alabama State football game set at Cramton Bowl. White supremacist signs, a fake bomb, and a Ku Klux Klan banner prompted extensive police presence and possible crowd disruption.
The Louisiana legislature unanimously approves placing 2 525 312 dollars in a bank to pay all New Orleans school teachers. The senate votes 36 to 0 after the house clears it 97 to 0. The measure aims to resolve a payroll crisis, with Negro and white teachers both to be paid.
President Eisenhower proclaims November 24 1960 a national day of Thanksgiving and urges Americans to assist the world’s less fortunate. He calls for support of the food-for-peace program and the U N Food and Agriculture Organization in efforts to combat hunger worldwide.
Regimen a compound marketed as a weight reduction tablet was found falsely labeled and ineffective. Judge Howard C. Kline ordered destruction of the $2,673 Regimen stock seized May 12, 1959 from a Wichita wholesale drug firm. Warner Moore plans an appeal for Research Drug Corp. The state suit cites dehydration and no hunger control plus harmful risks to heart disease high blood pressure diabetes thyroid conditions and children.
UPI report says 28 U.S. governors and their wives toured Volta Redonda Brazil's largest steel mill built under a wartime pact with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Output has doubled in five years reaching 2.3 million tons annually as Brazil's auto industry expands. The group planned tours of rural university sites before flying to Brasilia.
In New Delhi Prime Minister Nehru warned the world remains in a semi war state that could erupt into fighting if Peiping believes war is inevitable. He said coexistence with the West is essential and noted the Soviet stance differs. He spoke as the briefing ended.
Ghana and Czechoslovakia signed three agreements on trade development technical cooperation and cultural cooperation in education science and art. It is understood Czechoslovakia offered a number of scholarships to Ghanaians.
Sydney customs officers confiscate thousands of pounds worth of Japanese made goods bearing pirated Australian trade marks.
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