Film Studios Revamp System
Hollywood Jan. 5. The star system is shrinking with more one year deals and fewer featured players. Studios trim star lists to reduce payroll while stars seek freelance outside work and personal control. Richer performers may still opt for one picture yearly. Notable one year deals span Columbia, MGM, Paramount, Republic, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warners with names like Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, and Veronica Lake among others.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Richard Widmark
June Allyson
Gast
Katharine Hepburn
Danny Kaye
N Ens
Columbia
Larry Parks
Glenn Ford
MGM
Mickey Rooney
Ginger Rogers
William Powell
Wallace Berry
Gregory Peck
Paramount
Veronica Lake
Billy DeWolfe
Rhonda Fleming
Republic
John Wayne
George Brent
RKO
Melvyn Douglas
Gary Grant
Kay Kyser
Dorothy Lamour
Myrna Loy
Merle Oberon
Maureen O'Hara
Robert Young
Ann Southern
20Th Century Fox
Dana Andrews
Ida Lupino
Universal-International
Charles Coburn
Dick Haymes
Robert Preston
Burt Law
Dan Duryea
Tony Martin
Howard Duff
Warners
Humphrey Bogart
Gary Cooper
Joan Crawford
Rural Housing Demand Asserted by Rep Jones
Representative Jones of Alabama states he is determined that any general housing bill include a provision for rural housing, signaling a push to secure targeted housing aid and support for rural communities in forthcoming legislation. The remarks reflect a broader push to expand housing access beyond urban areas and address rural housing needs through federal policy.
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Jones
Washington
Alabama
Banking and Currency Committee
Dear Miss Dix and Other Neighborly Notices
A collage of Dorothy Dix Q and A on marriage risk, secretary duties, and engagement control. Readers seek guidance on infidelity, professional standards, and a domineering fiancé, with rural housing aid discussion tucked in about Alabama farm housing legislation and storage needs.
DAILY CROSSWORD CLUES AND CRYPTOQUOTE PUZZLE
A feature listing across and down clues for a daily crossword including entries from edible mollusk to Roman house gods. It also presents a cryptogram puzzle mapping letters to form LONGFELLOW and includes yesterday's cryptoquote and a proverbs line.
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Longfellow
Hal Wants To Be 10 Mostest Or 10 Bestest of Something
Hal Boyle recalls his secret wish to be named among the ten best or ten mostest of something for a year. He traces how editors’ lists became an American industry, and recalls his own rise as the ten best editor while noting his rival Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1948.
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Martha H
Hal
Hal Boyle
New York
Tripe
America
Adam
Adolf Hitler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Annual Scout Meeting Set in Florence January 20
Tennessee Valley Council Boy Scouts will hold its annual business meeting at First Methodist Church in Florence on January 20. The 5:00 p.m. meeting will elect 1949 officers and review 1948 work. a recognition dinner follows at 6:00 p.m. Oley F. Urikefer will attend. Scouters should reserve via district chairman or Huntsville council office.
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Tennessee Valley Council
Boy Scotts
America
First Methodist
Florence
Tennessee Valley
Oley F. Urikefer
Memphis
Huntsville
Austinville WSCS Adopts Program
The Austinville Women’s Society of Christian Service met at the church on Monday and adopted a program with enthusiasm for Thursday activities. Members are urged to attend the church basement for sewing and day items from the Advance will be taken up. A covered dish lunch is planned at noon. All WSCS members and other church women are urged to attend.
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Austinville
Ike tops lists as most magnetic man in America
The piece notes WWII era leader Dwight D. Eisenhower on multiple lists including “the nine most magnetic men in America” and “the ten best dressed males.” Frances quips about his failure to come home on time, and the column ends by inviting readers to see The American Adventure in the Daily Jan. 10.
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Dorothy Ofx
Mother Eve
National Laugh Week Foundation
Institute For the Study and Development
America
Veronica Dengel
Ike
White House
Seven Men Die in Air Force Plane Crash Near Colfax
Seven men were killed and one missing in a two engine Air Force transport crash ten miles southeast of Colfax California. Coroner Francis E West and Air Force officers viewed the wreckage where seven bodies lay unrecovered due to heat. The plane was en route from His Field Ogden Utah to McClellan Field Sacramento California when it crashed in the Sierra Nevada foothills. McClellan Field said at least three aboard were Air Force personnel attached to the field.
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Colfax
Calif
Pseven
Air Force
Here
Placer
Francis
E- West
Ogden
Utah
McClellan Field
Sacramento
California
Sierra Nevada
Vague Medical Claim About Treating Gotnorrhes Vases
A fragment asserts that about 90 percent of gotnorrhes vases can be cured with one dose of penicillin. The text is unclear and lacks verifiable context or sources.
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Daily Crossword
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River Styx
Imyth
Brazil
Wan
MNUC
CKUM
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Zotos and
Frederics
Permanent
the Beauty Clinic
WSCS
Frances
Decatur Typewriter Co
First Ave and
Moulton St
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Decatur Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Notiona
BUICK
Roadmaster
Lee Street
Henry
Taylor
ABC Network
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