Army Engineers Award State Work in Alabama Georgia
Army Engineers awarded four contracts totaling nearly $1 million for Alabama and Georgia projects. Cowin and Co. of Birmingham won $613,146 to excavate a tunnel diverting waters of the Coosawattee River for Carters Dam near Chatsworth Georgia, with work starting soon and due by early March. W S Newell Inc. of Montgomery received $323,717 to rehabilitate runways at Maxwell Air Force Base, starting about July 1 and finishing by year end. The Veterans Administration reports more than five million veterans hold GI insurance policies.
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Mobile
Army Engineers
Alabama
Georgia
Cowin and Co., Inc
Birmingham
Coosawatte River
Carters Dam
Chatsworth
W. S. Newell, Inc
Montgomery
Maxwell Air Force Base
Numbers and stars mix in a Basin Street East night
Earl Wilson recalls a funny evening at Basin Street East with E. W. and I, Nancy Ames, the Limeliters, and Gerry Mulligan as table talk riffs on area codes and menu numbers. The group playful lapsed into a computer like ordering while jokes hit about Buddy Hackett and Westchester information. The piece also sweeps through showbiz chatter from Mel Ferrer to Miss America 1963 Jacquelyn Mayer and Brigid Bazlen healing, ending with a closing syndicate note.
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New York
E. W. and I
Basin Street East
Nancy Ames
Limeliters
Gerry Mulligan
Paul Sann
B.W
Mr. San
Buddy Hackett
Buddy
Mr. Sann
New Jersey
Westchester
Mel Ferrer
Lisbon
Audrey Hepburn
H’wood
Jackie Gleason
Sammy Spear
CBS
Arthur Godfrey
Lake Tahoe
Lynn Duddy
Jerry Bressler
van Johnson
Liz Taylor
Richard Burton
Marty Ransohof
Kirk Douglas
Burt Lancaster
Jim Farley Jrs
Concord
Carl Sandburg
Mama Gabor
Goshen
N.Y
Marilynn Lovell
Marti Stevens
London
Washington
Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer
Brigid Bazlen
the Hall Syndicate, Inc
Stanford Engineers Attract Most Foreign Students
Stanford University reports that engineering is the favorite field for foreign students. More than one third of Stanford's 548 foreign students, about 38.5 percent, study engineering with electrical and related curricula most popular, according to foreign student adviser Werner Warmbrunn.
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Stanford, Calif
Stanford University
Stan
Ford
Werner Warmbrunn
Three Convicts Hunted After Escape Near Coffeeville
Three inmates Henry Lee Coleman Prichard Ed Patterson Greene County and Willie J Alexander Franklin County escaped from a work gang near Coffeeville while being moved to a road job. State Troopers reported the men, all Negroes charged with second degree forgery, fled into a wooded area days after the escape.
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Coffeeville
Ala
Henry Lee Coleman
Prichard
Ed Patterson
Greene County
Willie J. Alexander
Franklin County
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Dacron
2Nd Ave
Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
College of Cardinals
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Monterey
Pontiac
Buick
Chrysler
Mercury
McRae Motors
Lee Street
B.V.D
Dad
Sewell
Shortie
Jarman Shoes
Johnston
Walgreen Agency
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