The Toy Bulldog Mickey Walker Pursues Painting Fame
In New York City retired boxing champion Mickey Walker, 45, plans to shift toward serious painting in about four years. He moved from boxing to art five years ago after inspiration from a Gauguin film and aims to create the kind of painting he calls the real stuff. Walker, nicknamed a tough little guy, believes age brings focus and purpose beyond nightlife and champagne.
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New York City
Mickey Walker
Mickeys
Gauguin
South Seas
Mickey
United States
New York
Main Street
Mickey the painter of primitives from Elizabeth NJ
The article profiles Mickey a native of Elizabeth New Jersey now in a studio surrounded by canvases and books. He paints and writes but worries about grammar. A noted primitive artist with two exhibitions at the American contemporary artists gallery he once toured on a 50 000 mile USO journey through South America Africa and India as master of ceremonies for a sports show.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Mickey
American Contemporary Artists’ Gallery
South America
Africa
India
Victoria Beach
Central
Man Fights Rat Plague with Pets and Poison in California
Adolph Bufe of Sacramento reports a 24 hour battle against rats on his ranch aided by a dog two cats and a can of poison. He tallies 820 dead rats claiming hordes invaded due to abundant feed amid a regional shortage.
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Sacramento
Calif
Adolph Bufe
Bufe
Aviation Notes Highlight New Airports and Plans
Miss Mayme Smith of Monroe becomes the first passenger to alight at the new Lancaster Wisconsin airport opened by pilot William Brewer. The piece lists aviation developments including hunting lodge plans near Ogallala Nebraska, a Denver Chamber project for a model airplane airfield, Republic Aviation leasing Framingtondale South Dakota facilities, and pilots-in-training from Mount Holly New Jersey. It also notes airport leases in Harrisfield Missouri and a Denver International air show at Stapleton on August 24 and 25 led by Homer Torrey and Steadham Acker. Johnson Kansas hosts a privately operated port run by Forest Walker with a Johnson flying club of ten members holding over thirty thousand dollars in gear.
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Mayme Smith
Monroe
Lancaster
Wis
William Brewer
Omaha
Lyle DeMoss
Leonard J. Bussey
Don Musgrove
Henry E
Walter W. Wendt
Bennett Davis
Leonard Fletcher
Bert Robinson
Lake McConaughy
Ogallala
Harrisfield
Cape Girardeau
Wynne, Ark
Denver
Kansas
Johnson, Kans
Forest Walker
Johnson Flying Club
Winged Boxcar Planes Carry Nine Ton Payloads
Description of a fair child cargo aircraft capable of nine tons of payload at 200 mph with a 38 foot fuselage large enough to drive autos and trucks inside.
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Fairchild Packet
War veteran X solo flier in Utah despite paralysis
Dean Larsen a 25 year old war veteran from Wales Utah soloed an air plane at Brigham Utah after five percent hours of instruction in a hand operated two passenger plane. Instructors John C Weir and Bill Rowe reported a ten minute flight. Larsen was wounded in Germany in 1945 when a 45 caliber bullet lodged in his spine.
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Brigham
Utah
Dean Larsen
Wales
Bushnell General Hospital
John C. Weir
Bill Rowe
Larsen
Germany
Badger Iowa A Model Co-Operative Town
Badger Iowa earns the nickname Co-Op Town for its long standing co operatives. From a grain elevator to a telephone company a petroleum co op bank and a grocery and appliance store the community builds through cooperative endeavor. Local residents consider new teen age entertainment ventures and a possible playhouse as future co op expansions.
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Badger
Co-Op
Iowa
Stock and Grain Association
Farmers Grain Elevator Company
Co-Operative Telephone Company
Co-Op Credit Union
State Bank
ABC Co
Cop Is Shocked By Autoist Who Asked for Fine
Greeley Colorado woman telephoned to admit running a red light at a downtown intersection. She said she would pay the fine. Desk Sergeant Irl Timken excused her from the fine and praised her honesty as a model for drivers.
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Cop
Greeley, Colo
Greeley
Irl Timken
Man Remembers Dentist After Decade Passes
In Sumner Washington a patient who had been treated by Dr. C L Tolefson sends a money order to repay a decade old debt. The man lost his job when his packing plant closed and later paid after years of hardship and prosperity.
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Sumner, Wash
C. L. Tolefson
Boy 15 Runs 60 Acre Farm in Auburn Washington
In Auburn Washington 15 year old Jimmy Marshall operates a 60 acre farm without help. He tends a herd of purebred Jerseys and raises hogs while also excelling as an athlete and student. After the January death of his father B L Marshall he continued the farming, dairying and spring work. He intends to keep farming and is well on his way to success.
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Auburn
Wash
Jimmy Marshall
B. L. Marshall
Jimmy
Climbs 273 Steps Daily for Knit Watchwoman on Tower
Mrs Merle Lucille McDaniel serves as fire watcher for the forestry department from a cabin atop a 120 foot tower built as a wartime lookout. She works 9 to 5 daily scanning a 20 mile area with binoculars between knitting sessions.
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Merle
Lucille McDaniel
McDaniel
Forestry Department
War Department
Mississippi
Mrs. McDaniel
Bicycling Cat Reappears With Four Kittens
Royalton Vermont reports Abbie the bicycling cat has returned home after a year away with four kittens. Abbie vanished during a cycling trip with Mrs Homer Russell and children near Russell's Maine summer home. A newspaper story helped locate her about two miles from the disappearance site.
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Royalton
Abbie
Homer Russell
Russell
Maine
No Wedding Honking Prohibition Enacted in Monessen
Monessen adopts an ordinance banning excessive automobile horn tooting including wedding celebrations. The law provides police penalties for horn excesses and urges newlyweds to display joy with quieter methods.
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Monessen
Atomic solons on trip to Bikini
W Stuart Symington assistant secretary of war Senator Millard E Tydings Postmaster General Robert E Hannegan and Gael E Sullivan assistant postmaster general shown en route to Bikini aboard a military aircraft for official visit and assessment.
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W. Stuart Symington
Millard E. Tydings
Maryland
Robert E. Hannegan
Gael E. Sullivan
Bikini
Washington’s Seamy Side Lifts Capitol History to Light
A 1858 description of Washington as a rough, muddy town contrasts with today’s status as world capital. Theodore Noyes, longtime editor of the Washington Evening Star, championed voting rights for the city and led a reform drive including rat-control and anti-corruption probes. The piece notes wire tapping, FBI files, and fingerprinting in public and White House security programs.
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Washington
Washington Evening Star
Theodore Noyes
Canberra
Camelot
Merlin
Baghdad-on-the-Potomac
Noyes
Congress
Rat Invasion Prompts Public Health Action In Capital
A rat infestation in Washington triggered a Public Health Service response including sealing entry points, 300 traps, dusting with DDT, and red-squid bait to curb typhus spread. The piece notes experts and magazines discussing the event and contrasts political turnout patterns in off years with party shifts.
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Washington
American Museum of Natural History
United States Public Health Service
Europe
Barbs by Bankhage Lampoons OPA Strike Talk
The piece riffs on Texas flour and flourished dishpan wit as it skewers OPA policy. It muses on a silver bridge to a flying enemy and hints at UN moves against Franco. It notes rising prices, non skid rugs forecast by Business Week, and Maryland tobacco plants kept sharp as if curled nightly.
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Business Week
Pegged Lawn Chair Easily Taken Down
Pattern 292 provides a simple peg joined lawn chair design. The chair uses separate sides seat and back held rigid with pegs and can be disassembled into four flat pieces for easy storage. Postage 15 cents for the full set with diagrams and materials list.
Two Men Admire Each Other In Eager Exchange
"There are two men I really admire," said the bore. "Oh Who's the other?" asked the girl. The dialogue hints at hidden admiration and social tension in a playful scene from a past era.
Scholarly quip on Magna Carta timing
A teacher quizzes Wilson about Magna Carta. Wilson answers that it was signed at a quarter past twelve, 12 15, prompting a brief exchange about the correct time.
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A. D
P. M. ‘Wilson
After dinner speaker and sandwich order at table
An after dinner speaker quips he could not speak after eating more, then a theatrical aside from the far end prompts the waiter to bring him a sandwich. The exchange adds a light note to the gathering and shows dining humor.
Poem Tearing Sparks Friendly Conversation
Jasper admits tearing up a poem. Joan responds that it was the best thing he ever did. Their light exchange reflects playful affection and supportive banter.
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Jasper
Joan
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