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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1945
Page
4
The Miami University football team heads to the Orange Bowl this year while Florida fires its coach and hires a scout at 6000 dollars a year seeking a renowned coach to rebuild its gridiron program. The move signals Florida’s aim to return to national prominence in college football.
The article notes Senator Kenneth D McKellar of Tennessee faces a decision on a potential sixth term amid concerns about his health and a history of opposing the TVA Colleague Stewart narrowly won re election with TVA opposition The Columbia Herald backs McKellar citing South political weight and Washington role The Daily expresses hope he wins but warns it should not imply a TVA mandate if reelected
A Brookland Alabama test shows a telephone conversation traveling over rural electrical power lines. The joint Bell System and rural electrification engineers demonstrated voice transmission on a line carrying high voltage, using a coupler to separate voice from electric current.
New York critics discuss the Broadway musical Carousel. The reviewer defends the piece’s art while railing against its romanticized heroes and harsh depictions of mill towns and factory life. The piece blends satire with moral questions about work, love, and class.
A city awoke to a blanket of snow on Tuesday drawing praise for its beauty and noting dangers. The quiet also brought illness risk for the poor lacking heat and serious transport and communication disruptions affecting daily life.
In 1946 a Forest Hills doctor reported aerosol penicillin via nebulizer or spray improves acute sinus infections and sinobronchitis over injections. Nasal preps shrink membranes, patients breathe the mist to treat polyps and nasal areas at home with simple equipment.
A Decatur Doctor at a Good Cheer Christmas party offered free health tips. He quipped that to avoid trouble and stay healthy one should breathe through the nose to keep the mouth shut. The bride’s mother protests and lively chatter includes playful lines about soup and grammar.
A reflective Christmas vignette describes joy in small gifts that brighten others eyes and the happiness of giving. A late arriving woman disrupts a wedding scene, insisting she is a friend of the groom as an usher asks for an invitation.
A fragmentary prompt presents a series of aged schoolhouse dialogue lines and jokes. It centers on a grandparent and grandson exchange about a pin-up and a country school teacher. The reader is asked what is wrong with the sentence, revealing humor and period voice.
A personal note from Jane S. Colten describes trimming a Christmas tree alone, decorating with greenery, hanging mistletoe, and feeling the lack of a partner this holiday season.
A comical exchange unfolds as a young man with a press pass introduces himself to a protective father, who questions the reporter’s liberties while the youth explains he is merely hugging the daughter. The scene captures a lighthearted moment of mistaken boundaries and journalism.
A witty column defines alimony as a man s surrender value and snobbishness as the outward sign of an inferiority complex. Teen age is mocked as a period when boys seem to have atoms in their pants, while a bank is described as an institution where you can borrow money if you can prove you don t need it.
A short admonition on discretion and restraint. The speaker offers a stern guideline that silence can surpass explanation, attributed to Mrs Calla Blandin in a terse, old style epitaph or epigram.
A collage of gossip items from Washington society and media circles. Topics include Lady Astor seeking a U.S. visit to dodge war-crimes witnesses, Doris Duke’s visa saga, Hoover marriage rumors tied to family wealth, a Marine ejecting a columnist at a bar, delays at the White House and State Department, Gertrude Lawrence clashing with Theatre Guild, and various Hollywood and theater figures in transit or dispute.
Multi millionaire A G Vanderbilts bride Jeanne Murray sought publicity work and pressed Sherman Billingsley of the Stork Club to hire her. Dolly De Milhau, a former Stork press agent, mentored her. Dolly, a friend of Alf Vanderbilt, wrote to him in the Pacific about their romance, and Jeanne eloped with Vanderbilts money, accompanied only by Dolly. The tale notes Jeanne Murray wed while braces covered her teeth.
The piece notes Zorina Balanchine with a new scent Sus picion and Vera replying with Saint and Sinner. It mentions S R Ogden III set to wed Mary McClean Shepard, Miami Beach social life at the Roney, Pat the newsboy barred from headlines, Lillian Roth's fourth divorce, Stork Club sales of Lughaw's and Cavanagh's, Robert Walker and Ingrid Bergman gossip, Heifetz and Vidor honeymoon home sale to a lawyer, and other celebrity links amid Hollywood chatter.
Jan Sterling and T Siede will be united in upcoming productions. Elena Mora, Chilean ambassador’s daughter, to wed a career diplomat in Chile. Enrico Caruso linked to a Chicago gin mill scene. Captain Speed Chandler and Mary to be wed by Yuletide. Henry Hoke’s book It’s a Secret due next month has sold over 50,000 in advance. NBC bans discussion of Deep Are the Roots. Macoco mournful as his allowance trimmed to 3000.
Glor ia Conover splits time between a Peruvian millionaire and a publishing executive while Deanna Durbin’s The F Jacksons plan a spring reunion around April 1. General Motors faces labor pressure rumors of renaming as General Martyrs. Jeah Darling and Captain Grant Whitney resume on Broadway after Africa USO tour. Sally Warren’s Doctors Hospital phone buzzes, and Peter Arno hints at a New Yorker reconciliation. Sascha Guitry’s widow Jacqueline De Lubac notes a Rio arrival for marriage. William Allen White’s autobiography tops March Book of the Month.
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