Berle and Allen Trade Lines Over TV Fame
Hollywood July reports Milton Berle responding to Fred Allen's Life magazine remarks. Berle jokes about Allen and notes Berle’s top TV ratings. He defends fellow comedians and reflects on video field competition, while Boyle plans to resume TV and radio work and film projects amid the busy season.
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Hollywood
Milton Berle
Fred Allen
Allen
Boston
Life Magazine
Berle
Julius Caesar
Bob Thomas
Ed Wynn
New York
Sinatra
Bob Hope
Jack Benny
Jack
Steubenville
New Haven
Boyle
Jeal
Oak Ridge WSCS Holds Session
The Oak Ridge Methodist church WSCS met Monday night with singing of Higher Ground. Mrs. Dean West led prayers, Mrs. Jarkes Sybert spoke on Once I Was A Child, followed by a poem. Mrs. Earl Legg gave the book study. Miss Jean Downs gave the benediction.
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Oak Ridge Methodist Church
W. A. Thompson
Dean West
Jarkes.Sybert
Robert Brown
Earl Legg
Jean Downs
Gladys West
Wedding Plans for Rosalia Imbusch and William Wachter
Miss Rosalia Clare Imbusch announces her July 18 wedding to William Henry Wachter at Sacred Heart Church. Attendants include maid of honor Virginia Imbusch and bridesmaids Dorothy Wachter and Alice Marie Von Hagel. Al Herr and Bill Hauk Jr. as groomsmen. Charles Imbusch and Charles Richard Jr. as altar boys. Reception at the Imbusch home from 10 to 1.
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Rosalia Clare Imbusch
John F. Imbusch
William Henry Wachter
Alvin Wachter
Sacred Heart Church
Hillary O. S. B
Sacred Heart
Virginia Imbusch
Dorothy Wachter
Alice Marie von Hagel
Brookside
Alabama
Imbusch
al Herr
Memphis
Tenn
Bill Hauk, Jr
Cullman
Jimmy Connelly
Charles Imbusch
Charles Richard, Jr
Broom
Underground Vacation Trend Warns of Escape From Reality
HAL BOYLE notes a curious craze as Ray Emmert of Zanesville Ohio spent 45 days buried alive in a coffin to escape everyday life. Crowds watched through a 10 inch tunnel while coins funded the spectacle. He set a buried alive record and then faced potential indifference from relatives. The piece cites Don Marquis Hollywood nerves over a slow script cycle and a joke on movie money.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Ray Emmert
Zanesville
Ohio
Emmert
Emmett
Don Marquis
Hollywood
Colony
Overheard on a Bus Reflects Casual Attitudes Toward Fashion
A commuter overhears remarks about women and fashion, remarking that dresses lipstick and long hair are for attracting attention. The exchange highlights casual gender stereotypes voiced in public transit.
What Can a Man Believe Anymore in a Shocking Mix
A columnist notes troubling trends including the claim that American women buy 3,500,000 corsets yearly while Manhattan butchers display rubber parsley. A friend worries about his child who is slow to talk as neighbors’ children chatter in infantile babble.
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Manhattan
Pvt William R Brown Receives New Assignment in Japan
Pvt William R Brown of Decatur Alabama has been transferred for a new assignment with Company A 32d Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division in Hachinohe Japan. The unit known as The Spearhead has a storied World War II record. Brown enlisted July 14 1948 and trained at Fort Jackson. He previously worked at Goodyear Decatur Mills.
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Eighth U.S. Army
Hachinohe
Japan
William R. Brown
E. Moulton St
Decatur
Alabama
7Th Infantry Division
Brown
Fort Jackson
South Carolina
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Offbeat Ads and Q&A Snippets Sprawl in Odd Comic Fragments
A collage of humorous lines and brief vignettes from a newspaper page features quips about etiquette, speech, taxes, and romance. It includes jokes about dresses, wills, trains, Christmas timing, cigarette taxes, a dog bite headline, domestic scenes, and a light exchange between a doctor and a patient. The humor relies on wordplay and social stereotypes of the era.
Quote on risk and beginnings from early publications
The dialogue contrasts fear of starting with quitting in a domestic kitchen snippet. A mention of Poor Richard's Almanack notes its fame and Benjamin Franklin’s wealth from colonial publishing.
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Richard
Benjamin Franklin
Gout as a common yet often unrecognized arthritis
A 1949 King Features Syndicate health column explains gout as a frequent but underdiagnosed form of arthritis. It notes the typical early morning attacks in middle-aged men, possible multi-joint involvement, tophi deposits, and that X rays assist diagnosis. Management includes rest, saline laxatives, colchicine, pain relief, cold compresses, and purine-limited diet.
Mackenzies Column on Shanghai Reds and Anti American Feelings
James D. White analyzes Shanghai anti American incidents as a communist tactic to exploit hostility toward foreigners. He notes police abuses, a former Navy employee siege, and the Reds’ leverage as Nanking weakens, arguing resentment rises as Chiang and foreign aid dynamics shift in world politics.
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James D. White
DeWitt Mackenzie
Shanghai
U. S. Navy
U. S
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Nanking
Reds
China’s Cold War Bargaining and Mao’s Global Role
The article argues China will wield bargaining power in a widening cold war, with Mao’s leadership shaping a larger world power. China’s size resists containment, enabling leverage with Russia and the West, unlike a non communist China.
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China
Mao
Russia
Chiang Kai-shek
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