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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1947
Page
3
An ad promotes easy holiday shopping with two gift items. Smokers are advised to give Camel Cigarettes or Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco in ready to give holiday packaging. The Camel carton contains 200 cigarettes with a festive dress and a personalized message space.
Walter Winchell mocks political figures and media figures in a caustic column. He ridicules Rankin and notes Capitol Hill signals among Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and the President. The piece teases future front pages and comments on postwar politics, arts, and Broadway trends.
Westbrook Pegler critiques sport punishments as double jeopardy. He argues Leo Durocher and Rocky Graziano faced whimsical suspensions and public shaming not clearly tied to crimes. He condemns blaming environment, citing counterexamples from different social strata.
A New York man gains meals via physician prescription as a humorous note on nutrition and nostalgia. The piece mocks health fads and includes quips about eggs, the U N study and a Chiseler of the Week. It wryly comments on celebrities and figures like Vishinsky and Petrillo in a satirical, era voice.
A traveler staying at a San Francisco hotel with AFL delegates observed that rank and file union members were unaware of the act’s provisions. Leaders had touted it as a “slave” law, urging education on its actual contents and implications.
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