Self examination prompts and patriotic queries in 1940s media
A collection of questions challenging modern Americans on patriotism, politics, and culture, juxtaposed with quotes from Fiorello La Guardia on fire duty and a joke about Du Ponts’ nylon hosiery rights. Includes satirical statements on automania and driver danger.
Recipe for Poetic Greatness By Grace S Stevens
A short reflective verse encourages hard work and study for writers to earn lasting recognition. The passage then riffs on similes that compare neutrality to a waiter delivering a dinner check and to an unfamiliar face.
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Grace S. Stevens
American Mothers Warn Against Fifth Column In Society
A prominent call urges mothers to counter anti American influence by civic study at home. Florence Kahn backs deep reading of the Constitution and dinner table discussion to guide children away from radical doctrines.
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America
Henry George
California
Congress
Florence Kahn
Pitt
Mrs. Kahn
National Legion of the Mothers of America
Brown's Comeback Role in So You Won't Talk at Columbia
Virginia Vale reports Eevy Brown returns to film after a four month hospital stay from a serious car crash. Brown stars in So You Won't Talk as a timid reviewer and a gang boss in a comedy opposite Frances Robinson. The piece notes director Clarence Brown and references Edison the Man and Wayne Morris linked to Rosemary and Priscilla Lane in Warner Brothers productions.
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NLRB
Molly Pitcher
Betsy Ross
Virginia Vale
Western
Union
Columbia
Joe
Charles Wilson
Brown
Wayne Morris
Lane Sisters
Priscilla
Rosemary
Rat
Texas
Warner Brothers
Dr C P Cooper Pioneering Journalist and Columbia Professor
Dr Charles Phillips Cooper longtime editor of the New York Evening Sun and later Columbia University journalism professor retires after more than 50 years in the field. He joined the Sun in 1889, served as city editor and managing editor, and mentored generations of reporters. Cooper known as The Human Sieve impressed readers with sharp copy discipline and quick news judgment. He supported modern journalism and praised today’s papers while cherishing a storied era of Park Row.
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EW York
Howard Lindsay
Charles Phillips Cooper
New York Evening Sun
Columbia University
Clarence Day
Mr. Lindsay
Russell Crouse
Charles A. Dana
Dr. Cooper
Park Row
Betty Brewer Suggests Language by Neighboring Food Hurdles
Betty Brewer advises would be learners to live next door to a non English speaking hungry family to learn Spanish, saying that fishing language skills from real need is effective. Columbia plans I Married Adventure release from Mrs Johnson biography later this month. The Court of Missing Heirs radio show moves earlier to a full half hour, having located claimants to over 120000 dollars in 28 weeks.
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Betty Brewer
Paramount
Discovery
Fred MacMurray
Osa Johnson
Martin
Columbia
Mrs. Johnson
Johnsons
Court of Missing
Elmer Davis
CBS
Orchestra Leader John Scott Trotter Returns Home to Charlowe
John Scott Trotter, Bing Crosby era conductor, finished work on Rhythm on the Range then flew 2,200 miles to celebrate his 32nd birthday with birthday cakes baked by his mother. A large homecoming gathered in Charlowe, North Carolina, Randolph Scott’s hometown, to welcome him back after his far travel.
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John Scott Trotter
Bing Crosby
Charlowe
N. C
Randolph Scott
Praiticatt
Chafee’s Warrior Heritage Shaped Modern Mechanized Forces
The passage traces Brig. Gen Adna R Chafee Sr and Jr from frontier fighting with Kiowas and Comanches to modern mechanized corps akin to German panzer divisions. It notes Gen Chafee born 1884 in Junction City Kansas, West Point graduate 1906, and his son’s shift from cavalry to armored warfare studies.
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Adna R. Chafee
Adna’ R. Chafee
Dante Army Corps
Sierra Madre
New Mexico
Mounted Service
Chafee
Junction City
Kan
West Point
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WNU
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Lemuel F. Parton
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C. P. Cooper
Cooper
Arthur Brisbane
Richard Harding Davis
Woodford Patterson
Cornell University
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George Cartaret
Stephen French Whitman
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Butte
Montana
Business College
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Main
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