Broadway Star Betty Bruce Eyes Adelaide Role in Guys and Dolls
Prudent swimming pool care avoids hospital nightmares. Betty Bruce, native New Yorker and Met Opera Ballet alumna, prepares for Adelaide in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls opening in October. She has danced in Copacabana and on Broadway in The Boys From Syracuse and more. Etiquette tips from Raleigh pool show safety dos and don’ts.
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New York
Betty Bruce
Broadway
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Park Avenue
Copacabana
Adelaide
Damon Runyon
Miss Bruce
Greenwich Village
Baby Ballet
Metropolitan Opera
Fokine
George Balanchine
Lewisohn Stadium
Syracuse
Central Park
Lloyd's Expanding Into New City Office Across Lime Street
Lloyd's of London plans a new office on a bombed plot opposite its current financially housed building. The 350 year old insurance group seeks a lease as it widens its presence beyond the smoky coffee house origins in London.
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Lloyd's
London
Tyles
Lloyd’s of London
Lime Street
Financial District
Television drama costs triple radio production
Experts estimate that producing a dramatic television program costs about three times as much as radio production. The figure reflects higher studio, personnel, and equipment expenses in television.
Allied air action crushes Red tanks and rail hubs in Korea
American and Australian planes report destroying or damaging 21 Red tanks 15 bridges and an armored car while striking supply lines in Korea. Night operations by the Fifth Air Force aim to pin down communist forces as Mustang escorts support ground troops along the Taejon Yongdong front.
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Tokyo
Korea
Far East Air Forces
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Taejon-Yongdong
Kwangju
Fifth Air Force
Earl E. Partridge
Fifth Airforce
Yongdong
Seoul
Chechon
Kimpo
Battle Proposes Foreign Affairs Advisory Commission
Rep Battle introduces a bill to form a 12 member nonpartisan advisory commission for foreign policy. The panel would advise the President and serve in an advisory capacity only.
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Washington
Battle
D-Ala
Peoria considers tax free county building plan
Peoria County contemplates a no tax building financed by a Chicago mortgage firm. The project would convert the old courthouse site into a rental complex with shops and offices, paid for by rents and parking fees over 30 years before city ownership.
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Peoria
Peoria County
Chicago
Perty
Peoria County Board of Supervisors
John C. Parkhurst
William Dunn
Se Aoumiy Rendés
New School of Music Aims to Rebuild Philadelphias Strings
Philadelphia’s New School of Music seeks to bolster string sections across 200 U S orchestras. Founder Max Aronoff notes a shortage of qualified violinists amid 1500 in the region, while brass and woodwinds are filled easily. The program trains players with strong rhythm, intonation, and repertoire knowledge, enabling graduates to join symphony chairs.
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Billee Wheelock
Philadelphia
New School of Music
America
Max Aronoff
Dimitri Mitropoulous
Aronoff
Heavy Criminal Docket Opens Lawrence County Circuit Court
Lawrence circuit court opens with a heavy criminal docket a medium civil docket and a light grand jury docket. Circuit Judge James H Crow Jr presides with Circuit Solicitor George C Johnson and County Solicitor James P Miller directing grand jury work and prosecutions. Four weeks include 13 civil suits first week and two weeks for criminal trials plus a fourth week for indictments. The 18 man grand jury organizes Monday with arraignments for William Percy Kimbrell and Thomas A Cambron. Criminal cases set to begin August 7 include multiple assault false pretense burglary grand larceny and other charges.
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Lawrence Circuit Court
James H. Crow Jr
George C. Johnson
James P. Miller
Walker McCullough
American Insurance Company
Charles H. Eyster
Sidney C. Taliaferro
S. A. Lynne
Jeanne S. Lovett
Pettus
Shirley Smith
Eyster
Tennis Terry
R. E. Proctor
Annie Echols
Mutual Savings Life Insurance
Silverstein Brothers
Robert Hutson
R. A. Stephenson
W. Sherrill Jr
Chenault
Anitte Walton
Henry Nix
J. W. Sherrill Jr
W. B. Denbo
Norman W. Harris
Ernest L. Owen
Courtland
James A. Kirby
James Terry
William Frank
Boots) Terry
Tootsie McGehee
Sam Stewart
Sam Seward
Robert L. Ashford
Obie Jeffeys
James B
Reuben) Harris
Jay
J T) Kirby
Johnny Peebles
Raymond Tyler
Buck Walker
Lyndon Jeffreys
Charles Benefield
Jake Jeffreys
Raymon Dunlap
J. B. Evans
Jasper Evans
Renee Clay
Marvin Coleman Long
Bigamy
William Gunter Miller
Fired Officials Await Decision On Appeals In Mobile
In Mobile Alabama 41 discharged city workers including 33 firefighters and 8 policemen await a decision from the Mobile County Personnel Board on appeals of their dismissals. They were fired for refusing to sign non union affiliation statements challenging a city ordinance banning police and firefighters from joining unions. The three judge circuit court did not reinstate them. An Aug. 7 meeting will hear the appeals after an investigation by Personnel Director H T Pillans. The board oversees the civil service positions from which they claim wrongful discharge.
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Mobile
Ala
Mobile County Personnel Board
H. T. Pillans
Personnel Board
Notable Civil and Criminal Cases Set for August 15
Walter A. Cowan and Daniel Howard Brown among defendants in mortgage property sale cases. Appeals entered by Kenneth Copeland and Albert H. McKay. August 15 docket includes Smitty O'Daniel on grand larceny, Raymond Peters on carnal snomenaass distilling, and others like Orby Cole and Lester Cole.
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Walter A. Cowan
Daniel Howard
Coon) Brown
George W
Eva Jackson
Ben Gautney
Huiet Dotson
Kenneth Copeland
Bastardy
Albert H. McKay
Smitty O’daniel
Raymond Peters
Carnal Snomenaass Distilling
Orby Cole
Charles’ W. Alexander
Lester Cole
Austin B. Kelsoe
Marian Sends Little John Messenger in Hood Film
In the motion picture Hood Lady Marian selects Little John as her messenger to the Earl of Hunting ton and presents a scroll in a black case. A boy asks his mother what it is and she answers flashlight while the father corrects him noting no flashlights or thermos bottles in those days.
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Hood
Marian
Earl of Huntington
Little John
John
Mary
American Legion Weekly
Little Boy Blue and Other Humorous Snippets
A collage of short quips and dialogues features nursery rhyme references, telepathy banter, worm-style motorists chatter, and a humorous remark about delayed service versus prompt billing. Names include Margaret O Rouke and Johannah Joeckel.
Cheering Resolve and a Smokers’ Room Parable
A dialogue between a chairman and a smoker explores discipline and self‑improvement. The smoker reveals ten cigarettes a day at twenty cents each, totaling two dollars daily for thirty years. The chair asks if quitting would have bought a fine office building, revealing the cost of habit.
Rival Planes in Korea Highlight Early Air Superiority
U S transport planes evacuating 2000 people including UN Korea Commission members and dependents were attacked by enemy planes. U S fighters claimed several Russian Yak fighters down with no losses, illustrating an edge over Soviet designs in the Korean crisis.
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U.S
United Nations Commission On Korea
U. S
Reds
Barnyard Escalator Delivers Chickens At Witmer Farm
Pat Neal Witmer, a central Pennsylvania poultry farmer, built a moving belt escalator inside his barn to transport 3,000 six week old chickens upstairs. The device saves labor, dropping birds at the shaft base and delivering them to upper pens, cutting crate-and-carry time from six to seven hours with four workers to about three hours with two.
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Pat Neal Witmer
Pennsylvania
Witmer
Pro golfer Joe Novak releases Pa Golf In 8 Steps
The Professional Golfers Association president Joe Novak issues a new book titled Pa Golf In 8 Steps. The work outlines practical guidance for improving swing, etiquette, and course strategy, aimed at intermediate players seeking steady progress.
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Joe Novak
The
Professional Golfers’ Association
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