East Side Matchmaking Broker Shapes a 20 Year Union
A memoirish tale set on New York's East Side recounts Lena Moskin a marriage broker who pairs clients for a fee. Irving Schmikin a meatless store owner agrees to a practical partnership and amid comic misfires the couple wed and prospered. Their son Mortimer nicknamed weighs 135 pounds at age 12 and the uncleish tone rounds out a quirky neighborhood saga.
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Lena ‘Moskin
Lena
Lena Moskin
3Rd Street
Tony
Allen Street
Leni
Cupid
the Battery
Mth Street
Irving
Mortimer
Billy Rose Offers To Take On Opera House, Make It Pay
New York AP Billy Rose proposes to operate the Metropolitan Opera for one season and guarantee it will be solvent. He vows to streamline operations while preserving opera’s traditions as directors weigh canceling the 1948 49 season amid deficits and union issues.
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Billy Rose
Opera House
NEW York
Metropolitan Opera
Met
Metropolitan
George A. Sloan
Rose
Metropolitan Opera House
Sloan
Boy Scout Awarded Medal for Rescue at Sea
Ralph Penning, 13, a Mobile Scout, will receive the Gaustad medal from American Legion officials for an outstanding act. He swam to aid 17-year-old Ralph Mead who struck his head while diving, towed him to safety, and helped revive him using Scout training.
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Mobile
Ala
Ralph Panning
American Legion
Forty and Eight Society
Gaustad
The Green Is Long In Shamrock Land
AP notes Arthur Hutson an UC English professor describes Ireland as a place with low inflation offering seaside resorts with three meals daily for about 4 dollars a day and a large hotel room for 4 dollars a day during an eight month tour with his wife and son visiting Dublin and other cities.
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Mobile
Ireland
Arthur Hutson
University of California
Hutson
Meatless Campaign Spreads to Mobile
Mobile joins the meatless week drive as housewives pledge to telephone potential meat buyers. Mrs Earl B Cloud reports over 500 pledges from local housewives.
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Mobile
Earl B. Cloud
Women urged to refrain from meat purchases weeklong
Community group urges women to avoid buying meat for seven days. Mrs Cloud said some members spend afternoons telephoning names from the telephone book, doing little else.
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Mrs. Cloud
Boys Survive Gravel Burial After Railroad Dump
FLOWERY BRANCH Ga Two boys trapped in gravel were dumped from a railroad car and survived. Clint Harwell 14 and Charles Porter 9 were reported in good condition at a local hospital after the incident during a game in the area.
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Flowery Branch
Clint Harwell
Charles Porter
Boys trapped as gravel car trapdoor fails
A gravel car released its trapdoor and buried two boys. workers dug for 150 minutes before rescuing them. One boy was freed from the car while the other remained buried as the gravel slid out.
Girl joins fire buffs in Mitchell South Dakota
Helen Sherwood is the only volunteer firewoman in South Dakota. She has been on the firefighters list since 1942. Her duties keep her at the station answering the phone when other firemen are called out.
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Mitchell, S
Methodist Youth Attend Epworth League Conference
About 7a members of Methodist youth groups in the Marianna district attend an Epworth League Training Conference at Silver Lake. Rev. Charles A. Corbitt directs the event with daily vesper hours led by Rev. George Kerlin. Faculty include Rev. Griffin Lloyd teaching Enriching the Spiritual Life and Rev. R L Lawrence on Youth and Franelism, with Rev. Haywood Scott from Brantley conducting youth recreation. The conference closes August 14.
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Marianna
Silver Lake
Charles A. Corbitt
First Methodist Church
George Kerlin
Griffin Lloyd
Bonifay
RR. L. Lawrence
Blountstown
Haywood Scott
Brantley
Alabamie
Abr
Scott
Corbitt
Forest Coverage Across the United States
Forests cover about one third of the U S land area representing a major share of the nation 37 percent of land area is forested and regional variations occur with vast tracts in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast.
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United States
Annual Dairy Show At Chipley Aug 19
Florida Dairy Show in Chipley August 19 will feature 10 county entrants from Jackson, Holmes, and nearby areas. 4-H and FFA boys enter Jerseys and Guernseys in three age classes, with Nathan Mayo among the highlighted speakers.
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Chipley
Marianna
Peresan
Jackson
FFA
Florida
Fred Summer
Guernsey
Nathan Mayo
Lincoln boy survives truck incident and returns home
Lincoln reports a boy named Donald, injured in a truck incident, walked home from hospital 24 hours later. Doctors say he was lucky the truck did not come faster and his nerve remains intact.
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Donald
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