Benny Goodman Early Career and World Fair Honor
The King of Swing began on clarinet while young and smallest in his family. Benny Goodman joined the musicians union at 14 and pursued jazz with passion. His first job was on Great Lakes excursion boats, later in New York theatre orchestras. He represented the United States at Brussels World's Fair.
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Great Lakes
New York
Goodman
U.S
Marked Man Gunned Down in Chicago Underworld Shootout
Vincent James Spark alias Dominic Albana Vincent Costa known as Sporti, about 40, is shot by five men in a drive by near a southwest Chicago apartment. A cross on the forehead marked him as a target. note in his pocket contained a basement floorplan and the word Aliganer. Spark had a federal narcotics charge and past robbery terms. Authorities probe possible ties to a recent million dollar Fireside Restaurant blaze.
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UPI
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Vincent James
Sporti
Spark
Tang
Dedication of 1957 Report by Barre City Council
In Barre Vermont city actions the council unanimously voted to dedicate the 1957 annual report to Thurman Dix who served as ity engineer and head of the water and street departments for three years. The note appears in an unedited UP I dispatch with paid political advertising tag.
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Barre
UPI
Thurman Dix
Ity
Wa‘ter
Courseil
Justice Dept Upholds INS UP Merger Decision
The Justice Department ruled the United Press and International News Service merger into United Press International falls under antitrust exemptions due to INS being in failing circumstances. Assistant Attorney General Victor Hansen said the department does not plan anti-trust action at this time.
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Washington
UPD
Justice Department
United Press and International News Service
United Press International
INS
Department
Victor R. Hansen
Frank H. Bartholomew
Opera
Ion
Arkansas Law Taken Literally in UP Consolidation Inquiry
A briefing outlines that the Justice Department’s Anti-Trust Division will study the United Press International consolidation under Clayton Act section 7. Officials note Supreme Court and congressional interpretations allow consolidations in certain failing circumstances and that no action is planned at this time.
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Hansen
United Press International
Bartholomew
Clayton
Butne
Supreme Cout
Sds
Island Pond
Vi. B
Brighton
Hansen High School
In-1
Wales
ROE
INS
Supreme Court
Congress
iKefauver D-Tenn Justice
Department
Theo Hvo
Fishing Prize Lost Millions In 14 Years
A Justice Department spokesman said the INS showed the department had lost millions over 14 years while the Anti-Trust Division earned money on foreign service but lost on domestic service. In Arkansas a taxpayer paid half tax in May and the other half in November. The Supreme Court decision handed down a check for 26 cents from a 52 cent tax bill.
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Justice Department
Eet
Hansen
INS
Department
United Press
Little Rock
Ark
UPD
Arkansas
Supreme Court
Ipayer
Tax Department
U S Reports Fifth Week Of Jobless Dip
Washington reports the fifth straight weekly drop in unemployment benefit recipients, with 3,019,500 workers drawing jobless insurance as of May 37. The decline mainly reflects exhausted benefits for 55,000 claimants and a seasonal outdoor work uptick, especially construction.
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Washington
UPD
Labor Department
REO
Wife faints in court as sentence suspended for good behavior
In Batesville Arkansas Mrs Robert Anderson fainted after a judge sentenced her husband to three years for receiving stolen property. The judge then suspended the sentence on good behavior, enabling the couple to leave the courtroom.
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Batesville, Ark
UPI
Robert Anderson
French Mass Prayer at Graham Rally in San Francisco
Evangelist Billy Graham led about 24 000 people at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in a prayer for France praising its wartime sacrifice and urging unity and civil strength. He spoke on Christ as a teen ager noting Jesus worked in his father’s carpentry shop.
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Billy Graham
San Francisco Cow Palace
France
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Marne
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Jesus
Elvis
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Cord
Experience Board of Supervisors, Alameda Co
Pursal
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Justice Dept
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Westinghouse
Gies
Moldaned Records
Antenne
Hayward -Lu
Shahi Oa
Sports Cars Illustrated” Magazine
SIMCA
America
Byron Motors, Inc
E. 14Th Street
Hayward - Elgin
Motor Movies
Hayward
Oakland
Broadway
Welleo
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