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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1950
Page
8
During the first production, Shaw asked the audience for their view and a man in the pit shouted Rotten. Shaw curtseyed and, with an Irish smile, asked what two of them could do against a crowded house.
A chronology lists multiple calamities: a January week of rains sleet and cold across the U S with forty one dead including a fire at Mercy hospital in Davenport Georgia and an army paratroop crash at Lawson Field. A Bolivian plane crash killed thirty two and an Iran earthquake killed twenty. February records tornadoes near Shreveport Louisiana killing forty three.
A sweeping chronology lists numerous aviation, maritime, and ground disasters from 1949 to 1950 including crashes near Hyder Arizona Lake Michigan and Myrtle Beach. It tracks wartime and postwar events such as Truman forms hydrogen bomb policy, China’s government shifts, Korea crisis escalations, and U.N. security council maneuvers with Russia and Belgium leaders.
Across the week Belgium’s Communist leader is assassinated while Burma’s Seagrave is reported as an aide to Karen rebels. Canada faces railroad strikes and Red China asks the UN to oust the US from Formosa. China accuses U S planes of attack in Manchuria as Malik finishes chairing the Security Council. The U N Assembly debates a peace plan as North Atlantic ministers threaten force to curb Reds. West Germany eases occupation limits amid tariff fights. The U N gains 60th member nomina and a joint army plan is discussed.
Chronicle of Korea War actions from Pohang to Taegu with allied countermoves. Reds advance and recede as U.N. forces tighten grip near Naktong and Taegu while international diplomatic moves unfold in the U.N. and China theater.
A sequence of events details North Korean invasions of South Korea, U.N. security actions, and U.S. leadership under MacArthur. Key moments include U.S. air and naval support, the formation of a unified U.N. command, battles around Pusan and Taejon, Chinese intervention warnings, and reversals near the 38th parallel.
A collage of Cold War items shows miners defying John L Lewis, UMW contempt acquittals, and a wave of strikes. Senate probes Reds in the state department while Truman urges big military and defense funding and arms aid.
Baseball note highlights Sal Maglie of the Giants pitching a fourth straight shutout to set a National League mark while other sports items mention Ezzard Charles retaining the heavyweight title, the Yankees’ fourth straight World Series win over the Phillies, Notre Dame’s loss to Purdue ending a 38 game streak, Eddie Dyer resigning as St. Louis manager, Connie Mack retiring as Philadelphia manager, Navy upsetting Army, and a wine-themed Hollywood event awarding $100,000.
Fragments show a Brink’s inc robbery in Boston with $1 million seized by 17 masked men. Other items include Ingrid Bergman’s Rome birth, Carol Paight acquitted for mercy killing in Bridgeport, political intrigue in Kansas City, Mrs Elizabeth Bender Cloud named mother of the year, AMA planning a $1.1 million lobbying push against national health insurance, and mentions of Bernard Shaw and Grover Cleveland Alexander.
The Publishers' Auxiliary lists the ten most significant events of 1950. Major items include Chinese Red intervention, the South Korea invasion and U.N. military aid, President escapes assassination, Alger Hiss conviction, Dr Herman Sander mercy killing trial, Boston Brink’s robbery, Senate McCarthy probes, MacArthur north of the 38th parallel, President orders H bomb production, and the Pope’s dogma on the Assumption.
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