Boiling Point Delights in Mailbag Wisdom and Oddities
New York AP column with anecdotes on prosperity myths for seniors and odd facts. Notes include Spain's bullfighters earning more than US idols, Mozart's early works, Talmudic jokes, drunk driving danger, foot growth over 25 years, and Turkish soldiers' heaven pay. It blends humor with curious statistics and cultural quips.
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New York
Spain
U.S
Dominguin
Ordonez
Mississippi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Osear Wilde
Netherlands
Morida
Oxford Students Sing Mock Macmillan at Conservative Event
Oxford University Conservative Association invited two student guitarists to perform at a college celebration. The duo mocked Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with lines about Cyprus and by passes, prompting stunned silence before they were led off. The president apologized, noting the act was intended as a joke.
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Tony
Harold Macmillan
Cyprus
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Oon
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Philip Whitemore
Oxard University
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Lim
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Macmillan
Whittemore
Chandler Named Guild President
WOLLYWOOD AP Veteran actor George Chandler elected president of the Screen Actors Guild succeeding Ronald Reagan. Announcement came Saturday from the Guilds board of directors amid a transition for the actors group.
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Wollywood
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Screen Actors Guild
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Old Glory 50th Star Set For July 4 Display
Washington announces the 50th star will be added officially July 4 as Alaska already carried the 49th in 1953. Despite the change many agencies will keep 48 or 49 star flags until stocks run out. Flag Day on June 14 is urged with citizens flying colors and honoring founders. Betsy Ross origin stories vary with Pennsylvania making Flag Day a holiday. the 50 star flag will be raised in Baltimore at Fort McHenry and Planes Scott Key timed ceremonies.
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Nationl Geographic Society
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Baltimore
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Planess
Scott Key
Ft. McHenry
Fred A. Seaton
Thase
Frondizi Crushes West Argentina Rebellion in Six Hours
In San Luis a small scale revolt by anti Frondizi officers ended within six hours as loyal troops captured rebel leader General Marcijo Gomez and secured key sites including the San Luis radio station. Frondizi announced the armed forces remained loyal and prepared Europe's tour as authorities warned rebels under the Conintes plan face military courts and possible death penalties.
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Europe
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Twerlar
Marc i
Jo Gomez
Sedalla Larcher
Orl
Larcher
Hans
Torial
Juan D. Peron
Pro Peron
Petro Aramburr
Fortunato Giovannoni
Peron
Cebel
Arambur
San’ Juls
Andes
Buffalo Blocks Busy Freeway Near Nipamy
AP reports a buffalo halted traffic on U S 201 near Nipamy in Santa Maria California. State patrol and the owner Jay Doty pursued the animal as it stood in the southern lane then jumped a fence ending the incident without injuries. Several callers apologized for the strange alert.
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Calif
State Highway Patrol
U.S. 201
Nipamo
Nipomy
Jay Doty
Daily Review masthead and address note from Hayward
The Daily Review imprint records its post office entry in Hayward California as second class matter under Congress March 3 1 7P. It lists postal address at communications tal Bee Winton Ave Hayward and references The Daily Review.
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Hayward
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Daily Review
Shipbuilders To Get Federal Aid
A Cuban captain and aspiring rebel leader faces a military court with a death sentence for treason. Manuel Beaton, among 16 insurgents who evaded capture for months in western Cuba, was found and is to stand trial. A new law signed by President Eisenhower will allocate federal aid totaling 2% million dollars annually for the next three years to shipbuilders of ocean-going fishing vessels.
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Washington
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Cuba
Kit Beaton
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Fulgene
Truman accuses press of favoring Democrats in presidential race
Former President Harry S Truman told ABC College News viewers that the nation’s big-city press is trying to nominate the Democrats’ weakest candidate. He declined to name his preferred choice, but hinted at Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri. Truman urged prayers for President Eisenhower’s safe return from his Far East trip.
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Harry S. Truman
Missnuran
Stuart Symington
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Truman
Roth Hey
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Nemedy
Eisenhower
High Strip
Texas GOP Weighs Nixon Support at State Convention
Texas Republicans prepare to back Vice President Richard M. Nixon at the state GOP convention in San Antonio. Rockefeller backers push delegates to switch, though Hutcheson reports no Nixon-to-Rockefeller switches. The convention names 34 delegates and 3 alternates with 34 total votes.
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Tex
Richard M. Nixon
Texas
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Thad Hutcheson
Houston
Nixon
Rockefeller
Hutcheson
World's Largest Nylon Rope Used in Venezuelan Salvage
The 720 foot nylon rope with a 12 inch circuiter is employed in salvage work on Lake Maracaibo’s underwater oilfield in Venezuela. Tremors persisted in southern Chile over the weekend with six quakes reported by Sunday. The latest tremor toppled houses already damaged by earlier quakes as heavy rains and winds caused evacuations in Valdivia.
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Veneauela
Santiago
Chili
API
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Chile
Valdivia
Mark Twain Quote On Anger Usage Acknowledged
The famous writer Mark Twain is attributed with this maxims on anger advising to count to four when angry and to swear only when very angry. The quote reflects his characteristic wit and views on self control and language.
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Mark Twain
London Times note on Edwardian decor mystique
UPI reports items from the Times of London including a humorous alert about an American exec praising shabby Edwardian decor and a description of a Bay Minette Alabama Colonel arriving at the Democratic convention in a horse and buggy. A Salisbury bus conductor recalls a woman passenger paying with a gold sovereign worth about 39 dollars.
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UPI
Times of
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Alabama
C. E. Garrett
Bay Minette
Los Angeles
Southam
Salisbury
Eng
Vanderbilt Daughter To Wed Soldier
AI BURG Germany AP Pavieia Wallace Vanderbilt's daughter Nanette Wallace plans to marry Wiley M. Torkimy 23 of Clinton North Carolina an Army officer met in Germany The wedding may occur in six weeks likely in Bitburg Nanette traveled from Cannes with Lockamy to Bitburg where he is stationed Mrs Vanderbilt followed and consented to the marriage They are staying in Tusembourg now
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AI Burg
Germany
Pavieia Wallace Vanderbilt
Nanette Wallace
Bitburg
Ms. Vanderbilt
Nanette
French Riviera
Lockamy
$1700 Goes Up In Incinerator
In Richmond, Fred L Thames burned his billfold with 31 700 and tiles in three autos on Sunday He told police he intended to salvage a number of chances but did not realize his billfold was among the newspapers he burned
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Fred L. Thames
Thames
Itlan Incinerator
Sids Bilfeld
Pravda Debate on Khrushchev Policy Sparks Chinese-Campunity Clash
Moscow AP reports Pravda defends Khrushchev’s ideology while criticizing leftist opposition including Mab Tze hung and unnamed Chinese Communist leaders. The Sunday piece by N Slatkovsky argues against “temporary leftists” and defends Marxism Leninism amid calls for summit diplomacy and easing Cold War tensions.
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Sovie
Pravda
Presmiley
Nikita Khrushelev
N. Slatkovsky
Khrushchev
Matkovsky
Khrughchev
Mab ‘Tze- Hung
New York Theaters Reopen After Broadway Blackout
New York theaters end a long standstill as Actors Equity and the League for New York Theaters announce a pension and higher minimum salaries agreement. Twenty shows will restart tonight though remaining titles such as Duel of Angels Andersonville Trial and Finnian's Rainbow are reported closed for good.
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Andersonville
Actors Equity
The
League For New York Theaters
Abolition of Slave Trade by France Spain and Portugal 1815
In 1815 France Spain and Portugal moved to end the slave trade within their African colonies marking a coordinated abolition effort. The step reflected growing international pressure and debates over colonized economies and human rights during the early 19th century.
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Spain
Torugal
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