Georgia Gibbs Sheds Comedy Romance For Housewife Role
Georgia Gibbs reflects on life with comedians Danny Kaye Bob Hope Jimmy Durante Eddie Cantor Red Skelton and others. She jokes she would marry a comedian only if she could be a housewife while keeping her independence and career. Gibbs notes the appeal of the housewife label despite the challenges of a touring life.
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George Tucker
Hal Boyle
New York
Danny Kaye
Jimmy Durante
Milton Berle
Bob Hope
Ralph Morgan
Red Skelton
Georgia Gibbs
Nibbs
Worcester
Mass
Lve
Eddie Cantor
Danny
Georgia
Gibbs
Pickwick Landing Cottages Put Up For Lease By TVA
TVA offers 50 cottages at Pickwick Landing for lease as a recreation center. Includes small service buildings and two boat docks. area draws up to 30 000 anglers monthly and hosted nearly 475 000 tourists in 1948. A summer group camp of 65 acres, 58 buildings, two tennis courts and a swimming dock is available separately. D O Dugger at Wilson Dam provides details.
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Pickwick Landing Dam
Pickwick Dam
D. O. Dugger
TVA
Wilson Dam
William I's Rise From King of Prussia to Emperor
The first German emperor William I would have stayed king of Prussia but Otto von Bismarck urged him to take the broader imperial title near the end of his reign, shaping German unification.
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William I
Prussia
Bismarck
Capricorn Daily Brief Reading Surface
Capricorn forecasts list mixed advisories from health and finances with stray numbers and phrases. The fragment hints at plans, caution, and romantic themes amid a vague daily reading. Entities are absent or unclear due to incomplete text.
Transylvania College A Cappella Choir To Sing At Falkville
The 40 voice Transylvania College A Cappella choir from Lexington Kentucky will present a concert March 17 at 11 a m in Falkville Consolidated Schools chapel announced by Principal B G Smith Choir directed by Lewis Henry Horton marks a 2000 mile tour through Mississippi Alabama Tennessee Kentucky and Ohio blending Brahms Palestrina Mendelssohn with Bach Niles and Gibbons A school section will feature folk tunes arranged by Horton The choir known for high vocal blending has roots dating to the former Transylvania Glee Club and has long stood as a premier choral ensemble Wasp eggs laid by the queen hatch in about eight days.
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Transylvania College
Lexington
Falkville Consolidated Schools
B. G. Smith
Lewis Henry Horton
Transylvania Music Department
South
Falkville
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Brahms
Palestrina
Mendelsohn
LaBach
Niles
Gibbons
Horton
Transylvania Glee Club
Transylvanian Cappella Choir
Lions Discuss Baseball Plan for Legion Park Drive
Decatur Lions club directors met at De puty District Governor McMasters home to discuss fund raising to build an American Legion baseball park and recreational field. About 30 members attended as officers named a committee to report next week. The group set May 24 for officer nominees and June 14 for election. A Huntsville delegation backed district governor bid. state convention set for Mobile April 22–24 with Admiral Semms hotel as HQ.
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American Legion
Decatur Lions Cub
Finley Island
Robert A. McMasters
Ben Britnell
R. B. Freeman
Sam Wheat
Gene Bailey
Claud Carter
Leo Wright
LeRoy McIntyre
Britnell
Russell Humphrey
Bill Stone
Carter Do
Universal —Concrete Pipe Co
Huntsville Club
Lawrence Brock
Tant Dowell
J. J. Parks
Cecil Pinkerton
John Garrison
Donald Martinson
Lions District
Mobile
Admiral Semms
Herz M Cox
Chas. Grider
Talladega
W. D. Sharp
Rogersville
Joe Millions
Tom Monaghan
Columbus
Ohio
Bill Chambers
Athens
G. W. Littrell
F. P. Lemon
Elmer Glenn
Decatur
Vic Gange
R. P. Smith
Club
Goodman Family To Be Heard Thursday Night At Oak Ridge
The Goodman family from Mayfield Kentucky will appear in concert at Oak Ridge Thursday night at 7 30 p m. The quartet features seven brothers and sisters with gospel music and singing at its best.
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Goodman
Mayfield
Kentucky
Oak Ridge
Daughx a Daughx a Hubby-Your check to the gro cer came back
A humorous dialogue recounts a bounced grocery check saying the bank has a surplus, with a wife noting an advertisement in the paper. The playful exchange hints at financial misfortune and newspaper advertising tone.
Frantically scattered text from a 1930s style comic page
A jumble of dialogue and jokes from a satirical page. It features seaside quips about banks and love letters, a mock Kipling bear, cosmetic fees, owed money, and humorous family scenes with bears and kangaroos. The style mimics a column of brief gags and captioned sketches.
Oil Boom Boosts Middle East Output to Over Million Barrels
By 1948 the Middie East oil fields produced more than one million barrels of crude oil daily, signaling a major surge in regional petroleum output and energy supply.
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Middie East
Stewart To Play Reporter Again In Operation Malaya
Hollywood March 9 1977 James Stewart best known as a film star plays a reporter again in Operation Malaya He recalls reporters as complex characters and notes past film inaccuracies that irked actual newsroom readers He cites Call Northside 777 as an example of such a lapse and recalls the criticism of a typist style and furnishings in the movie set.
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Hollywood
James Stewart
Indiana
Jimmy
Northside
Stewart
Mexican Is Winner Los Angeles March
Enrique Bolanos defeats rival challengers to win the top prize in Los Angeles. The event highlights Bolanos as the leading competitor in the March contest.
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Los Angeles
Enrique Bolanos
Bolanos Wires Davis In Ten Rounds For World Title
Bolanos of Mexico City defeated John L. Davis of Oakland in a ten round decision to claim the world lightweight title before about 10 000 fans at the Olympic Auditorium. Bolanos weighed 143 pounds while Davis weighed 132.
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