Indestructible Gypsy still anxious to entertain
San Juan Puerto Rico is alive with showbiz chatter as Gypsy Markoff known as The Indestructible Gypsy prepares a new act after surviving a 1943 Tagus River crash. she, and Jane Froman, were rescued with lifelong scars including a crippled wrist while later touring to entertain troops in Africa and Japan.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Gypsy Markoff
Gen
Douglas A. MacArthur
Japan
Jose Delema
Hotel Americana
Gypsy
Jose
Christina Paolozzi
Pup
Christine
Maggie McNellis
Vera Swift
Markoff
Jane Froman
Tagus River
Portugal
Yvette
Africa
MacArthur
New York
U.S.O
P.O
Santurce
Milwaukee
Europe
Missouri
Treasury Starting To Win Three Year Battle Against Coin Hoarders
The U S Treasury curbs coin hoarding as silver prices retreat and demand softens. Crowned by reduced mint purchases, lower proof set prices, fewer wire service quotes, and ongoing silver sales at fixed prices, the drive to curb hoarding unfolds with Treasury forecasts of stabilization into 1966.
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Treasury
U.S. Treasury
Spe
New York Stock Exchange
U.S
Santa Letter From Somerville Child Requests Barbie Gear
Joan Carol Blackwood writes from Somerville asking Santa for a Barbie doll and clothes, toys, a trailer for a tractor, a cash register, shoes, candy and fruit for a stocking. She mentions Sandra Sivley Malinda Day Lady Bird and Granddaddy’s dog, notes no chimney, and adds a request for her little brother Keith Callahan’s gifts.
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Somerville
Santa
Sandra Sivley
Malinda
Ladybird
Mrs. Bishop
Grandmama
Joan Carol Blackwood
P.S
Mama
Daddy
Keith Callahan
Christmas Wish Letters From Area Children
Children from Hartselle Decatur Somerville and Priceville write to Santa asking for dolls Easy Bake Ovens G I Joes Zooms pogo sticks and toy vehicles. They mention good behavior prayers and teachers and include names ages schools and towns in a heartwarming holiday note.
The Legend of George Armstrong Custer Told for Youth
A youth-oriented essay recounts George Armstrong Custer’s rise from farm boy to West Point graduate and daring Union cavalry leader. It covers his postwar role, expedition against Sioux forces, and the doomed June 1876 engagement at the Little Bighorn, as remembered for school readers.
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George Armstrong Custer
George
West Point
Custer
Kansas
United States
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn River
Montana
Custer’s Last Stand and Christmas Letters Parade
The article recalls Custer’s reckoning at the Little Bighorn with a 226 man force facing a large Indian army, resulting in all perishing in hand to hand combat. It notes the site’s monument and national cemetery, and Custer’s West Point burial, alongside excerpts from children’s Christmas gift requests and a dense TV schedule listing.
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Custer
West Point
America
Daffinitions Tickle Sparks Steam Water Heat
A surreal fragment hints at a comic image of steam and water running wild with heat. The lines evoke a playful, inside out daffinition scene centered on a sneeze triggering a ticklish explosion.
Puzzle Box Riddle Reveals Tomorrow's Answer
Reader Lisa Mirsky of Danville California wins for a rearranged proverb puzzle. The note asks readers to rearrange letters in each word and then the word order, promising the Britannica Atlas or Yearbook as the prize.
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Lisa Mirsky
Danville
California
Child's Christmas Wish for White Shetland Pony
A five year old named Randal McCleskey asks for a white Shetland pony with a black bridle for Christmas and pledges to leave coffee and cake, asking the assistant to remember all the other girls and boys.
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Love
Tony and
Alan Maddox
Santa
Randy Harris
Larry the Lion
Randal McCleskey
Christmas Wish List From Beth and Carol
A child named Beth Pickard asks for a Baby Sheryl piano camera gun snow cone machine candy machine bubble gum machine and Barbie clothes. She also mentions a Baby Boo doll talking telephone dishes purse Nancy nurse and surprises for herself. Carol McClellan signs as a good little girl seeking gifts for others.
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Santa
Decatur
Sheryl
Beth Pickard
Nancy
Carol McClellan
Ronny Harris Seeks Coat Toys and Surprises for Christmas
Ronny Harris, age one, asks for a coat and toys for Christmas plus a few surprises. This brief notice presents a child’s holiday wish list attributed to Ronny Harris.
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Santa
Ronny Harris
NBC Splits Screen For Gemini Launch And Football
New York AP NBC coverage of Saturdays Gemini launch split the screen. The rocket filled the upper left while a Penn Maryland game occupied the rest. Before launch the football moved aside and the rocket led. commentator David Brinkley joked the rocket launched from the 50 yard line.
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New York
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
David Brinkley
Radio Station Schedule Fragments
The excerpt lists station call signs MSL Mutual WHOS AM FM MC HRT AJF WJOF WJMW WKAC and a vague daily range from sunrise 4 55 AM to midnight with some late entries 11 PM.
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MSL
Mutual
WHOS
HOS
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Dali
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Zhivago
Frank Sinatra Jr
Adam
Tony Curtis
Jack E. Leonard
Danny
London
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Athens
Gibraltar
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Fla
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My Valley
Harry Kurnitz
France
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Juliet
Jimmy Stewart
the Hall Syndicate, Inc
N.Y
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Henry Fonda
Richard Burton “Becket
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Hartselley
Youngbloo Hawke
UWS
Pest Eee PE
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Sente Claus
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Hartselle
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Decatur Dear
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Mrs. Brooks
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Priceville School
Miss Tanner
Karen - Nichols
Michael Brand
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Love, Sybie McClellan
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Penny Robin
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Tommy
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Little Johnny
Moulton
Randy Hale
Yours Truly
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Huntley Brinkley
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John Forsythe
Alabama
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Cheyenne
Dr. Kildare
Shenandoah
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Hazel
Ben Casey
Fugitive
Steve—Lawrence
Steve _Lawrence
Steve Lawrence
ETV Management Journal
Dick Powell
the Purple Heart
Johnny Carson
Utah
Blaine
Eddy
Sergeant Preston
Capt. Kangaroo
Bugs Bunny
Captain Kangaroo
Superman
Deputy Dawg
Mickey Mouse Club
Mike Wallace
Love Lucy
Young
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Dick van Dyke
Paradise Bay
Donna Reed
General Hospital
Lloyd Thaxton
Peter Potamus
Munsters
Rifleman
Walter Cronkite
Huntley-Brinkley
Phil Silvers
Combat
Rawhide
Gilligan’s Island
Smothers Brothers
Red Skelton
McHale’s Navy
F Troop
Petticoat Junction
Wlac-Tv
Mona McCluskey
George Sanders
Chuckle Box
Love, Ronny ‘Harris
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