21 Aug 1959
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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1959
Page
1
Producer King Vidor warns epic movies are too large and costly for Hollywood budgets. He cites 4,000 to 5,000 extras and rigid rules, noting Spain can shoot crowd scenes cheaper. Vidor reflects on Solomon and Sheba and urges producing epics abroad to fill the big screen.
New York business leader Hyman B. Cantor announced contracts for two 60,000 ton liners to sail 6000 passengers each at a $50 rate for Europe travel. Vessels, due 1962, will run New York to Zeebrugge and Bremerhaven with fast four day crossings, and feature amenities like private baths, pools, skating rinks, and convention facilities.
UCLA chemist Willard F. Libby unveiled the Banshee a penny size device that can be built into portable radios to warn of dangerous radiation for about 15 dollars He demonstrated its effectiveness by triggering a loud alarm with a cobalt sample.
Bonanza Club attorneys defend against State Gaming Commission cheating charges at North Las Vegas club. Key witness William Gallagher cites prior complaints. Michael MacDougall testifies about altered dice and deck. License revocation marked first action by the new gaming commission after law revisions.
In San Francisco AP reports poor sales of neck ties made from Kim Novak lavender bed sheets. Beall Ernst of a local firm struggles with about half of 200 ties crafted from the sheets, originally priced at $0 but reduced to $3.50 each after use in the film Vertigo.
AP dispatch notes Pennsylvania will join Washington as the second state with a 4 percent sales tax. The report mentions legislative action and a governor’s potential signature. A Buffalo UPD blurb adds a separate bowling item noting Joe Pieri’s three game series and a 34 percent rate outcome.
Stories from Catina Sicily to Colorado Springs report odd incidents and minor crimes. Lorenzo Leonardi confessed to stealing 2800 chickens to feed his family while a bank teller thwarted a holdup in New York City. In New Jersey police nabbed lottery suspect Harry Kehr as he tried to swallow evidence. An Italian couple found a sleeping man under their bed after a snoring dispute. A disaster control course forced Air Force colonel Bill Edwards to cut his honeymoon short at Lowry AFB.
Steven Rockefeller plans a Norwegian service at Lunde Lutheran church in Sogne for Saturday to wed Anne Marie Rasmussen. A large crowd, foreign guests, tickets for spectators, and a mostly Norwegian ceremony mark the event with John D. Rockefeller’s son stating the wedding is his life.
LONDON (UPS) Alec Dawson, 45 year old garage mechanic and father of three, will undergo operations to change into a woman at Guy's Hospital. He says final name and sex will be chosen after the nine month treatment and a fresh start. He notes a clean break with his wife Peg and three children.
London reports a search along England coast for the Crescent Angled Victor Mark I, Britain’s top secret jet with four crew and a scientist, which disappeared after a Havana test flight. Fidel Castro’s regime accuses conspirators. 134 detainees linked to the plot were charged and held at La Calla military fortress, while many released.
FBI agents and Marin County deputies sifted southern Marin County with shovels seeking $12,000 taken from a Bank of America in Point Reyes Williams, 31, claims amnesia about the money’s location while cooperating with Sheriff Louis Mountaines’ search efforts and expressing desire to recover the funds.
Washington AP reports the Hope Diamond, donated to the Smithsonian by a New York dealer, is said to bring death and misfortune to owners. Mailman James G. Todd delivered the 43 percent carat gem last November and then faced a string of calamities. His dog died, his wife and mother-in-law died, he suffered injuries, and a fire struck his home four rooms. Todd dismisses the legend and credits luck for his surviving four children.
A computation expert predicts a mechanical brain will one day write adult Western television shows. Dr. Allen J. Perlis of Carnegie Mellon spoke at Chapel Hill and discussed future uses of electronic computers.
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