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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1950
Page
3
Hollywood July 4. Patricia Medina discusses the clandestine filming of Rudolph Valentino’s life. Set secrecy is strict with reporters barred from the process and scripts guarded. Medina notes she was briefly escorted from the studio during lunch, claiming no secrecy oath was known to her.
A teen psychology feature warns girls that smooth talking summer romantics lure by flattery and gifts while hiding their true intent. It describes the pattern of vacation cowboys who pamper and flatter, then seek casual affairs, urging vigilance before hearts are harmed.
HAL BOYLE reports from Valley Forge Pennsylvania where 47 000 Boy Scouts gather for an encampment amid a lively horse trading market. Traders barter freely under ca veat emptor with no formal standards or protections, as buyers and sellers negotiate what each considers valuable.
Mackenzie's column notes Chinese communists may mobilize armies from Manchuria for a possible invasion of South Korea. The piece discusses a northern Korean tunnel for troops, Soviet guidance, and a broad, dangerous expansion of the conflict, while predicting democracy could still win without another world war.
Miss Medina discusses the Valentino film crew and press, noting a guarded but ordinary set. She describes how Tony Dexter resembles Valentino and how the love scenes are staged vertically with pillows. She adds most characters are fictional and Eleanor Parker plays a composite good woman.
Ancestry suspect in Blairmore notes a four month old Dalmatian named Teddy who behaves like a dog but eats unusual items. The puppy chews coal briquettes and swallows them along with watermelons onions tomatoes cigarette butts oranges lemons matches and lamp shade covers.
The Conway offers six rooms on one floor with three bedrooms and a dining room. Living and dining spaces can be combined by removing a partition. Front and rear doors open to vestibules with coat closets and a walk in front bedroom. Exterior is colonial with brick chimney and asphalt shingles. Overall 36 by 26 feet, total floor area 1082 square feet and 21906 cubic feet. Information available through The Small House Planning Bureau, St. Cloud Minnesota.
Duquesne University's Tamburitzans travel to Yugoslavia to perform for peasant folk and to engage with authentic folk culture. The ensemble also will present programs before American troops in Germany Italy France and Austria during a second month before being flown back to the United States August 18 to begin the new school year.
The text explains that Lamaism, practiced in Tibet, represents a variant of Buddhism with distinct rituals and lineage. It notes its cultural and religious presence in Tibetan society and its differentiating features from other Buddhist traditions.
Guglielmo Marconi’s summer 1894 time in the Italian Alps spurred the ideas that led to his development of wireless telegraphy. The trip influenced his experiments and the eventual invention paving radio communication.
Women who share the family budget of Chicago police formed the Police Wives Association. They voted to send a delegation to the state capital to seek a pay raise for their husbands.
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