Gift exchange jokes list for holiday season
A satirical list assigns humorous gifts to public figures and TV personalities. It lists Santa’s helper prompts for Jackie Gleason Perry Como Mae Busch Milton Berle Betty Furness Johnny Carson Ed Sullivan Alistair Cooke Richard Boone Phil Silvers Imogene Coca Paul Coates Tennessee Ernie Betty Durante Skitch Henderson Desi Arnaz Maxie Rosenbloom Ed Murrow Davy Garroway Robert Q. Lewis Bill Cullen Steve Allen and others. The piece closes with a holiday wish to TV viewers.
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New York
Jackie Gleason
Perry Como
Mae Busch
Milton Berle
Betty Furness
Johnny Carson
Alfred Hitchcock
Ed Sullivan
Alistair Cooke
Richard Boone
Cooke
Phil Silvers
Imogene Coae
Sid Caesar
Paul Coates
Tennessee Ernie
Durante
Jimmy Durante
Skitch Henderson
Rocky Graz
Pinky Lee
Truman Capote
Jack Benny
George Gobel
Jack Webb
Charlie Chan
Arthur Godfrey
Groucho Marx
Davy Crockett
Herb Shibmer
Ohio
South Dakota
Wyoming
Gene Autry
Roy Rogers
Wyatt Earp
Lone Ranger
Stanley Steamers
Eddie Arcaro
Gino Prato
Cap
Richard McCutchen
Joyce Brothers
Hal March
Weatherford Tragedy Claims 7 Year Old Girl
Carol Jean Faulkner died after her brother Troy 9 accidentally shot her with a .22 rifle while playing. Their mother Jennie Faulkner, a widow, works at Weatherford Medical and Surgical Clinic.
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Weatherford
Carol Jean Faulkner
Troy
Jennie Faulkner
Weatherford Medical and Surgical Clinic
Theater Calendar Highlights From Sundays To Saturdays
The listing covers ongoing showings across the week featuring Claudette Colbert Barry Sullivan in Texas Lady on Sunday and Monday, Jane Russell Jeanne Crain in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes midweek, Top Gun with Sterling Hayden Karin Booth, Fort Yu ma with Peter Graves Joan Vohs, Susan Slept Here with Dick Powell Debbie Reynolds, The Gun Lady with Peggie Castle William Talman, Escape To Burma with Barbara Stanwyck Robert Ryan, and Las Vegas Shakedown with Dennis O Keefe Coleen Gray, detailing each day.
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Claudette Colbert
Barry Sullivan
Jane Russell
Jeanne Crain
Top Gun
Sterling Hayden
Karin Booth Gem
Fort Yuma
Peter Graves
Joan Vohs
Susan
Dick Powell
Debbie Reynolds
Peggie Castle
William Talman
Burma
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Ryan
Las Vegas
Dennis O'Keefe
Coleen Gray
Markets Fort Worth Produce Poultry And Livestock Report
Fort Worth markets show limited offerings across poultry eggs and livestock with nominal activity. Poultry prices for various weights roosters and fryers quoted. eggs at medium and large levels. cattle calves hogs and sheep priced with small consignments and steady tone. Slaughter lambs steady with few other offerings. notable 83 pound slaughter lambs with high quality pelts around 17.25.
Washington Shoppers Set Buying Record This Season
Washington shoppers set a Christmas buying record last week with department store sales up 6 percent over the old peak. The Federal Reserve Board reported sales index at 255 percent of the 1947-49 base, 15 points above 1954 and 21 above 1953. Through the year to date, sales are 7 percent higher than 1954.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Viewers Demand Repeats For Christmas TV Telecasts
TV fans favor repeat airings of holiday favorites as Christmas programming returns. NBC reels in Dragnet style crime tales with Jock Webb while CBS restages Dickens and NBC plans color prints. Repeats draws strong viewer reactions and industry pressure to reuse successful holiday programs.
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Hollywood
Noel
Ahan
Jock Webb
NBC
Webb
Office Party
Fran Latourette
National Safety Council
CBS
Fredric March
Basil Rathbone
Flattery Spring Byington
Wally Cox
Dennis Day
Letters From Children Requesting Christmas Gifts
A collection of letters from young children in Texas to Santa Claus requesting dolls, dresses, toys, a baby buggy, a table and chairs, fruit and candy, and a bicycle. Signatures include Sharon Clifton, Christine Crabtree, Janet Lynn Crabtree, Linda Jean Crabtree, Gary Crabtree, Barbara Joan Shellman.
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Santa
Sharon Clifton
Janet Lynn Crabtree
P.S
Granny
Mommie
Lila June
Linda Jean Crabtree
Brenda Carol
Gary Crabtree
Lubbock
Texas
Barbara Joan Shellman
Dallas
Amahl and the Night Visitors staged again on NBC
NBC will present a live staging of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors on Christmas night for the sixth year running. The performance brings the family opera to viewers with the familiar holiday broadcast.
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NBC
Amahl and the
Night Visitors
Menotti
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