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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1948
Page
5
White Sulphur Springs rounds show defending champion Fred G. Bannerot Jr. of Charleston leading Ed M. Tutwiler Jr. of Mount Hope one up after nine holes in their 36 hole state men's amateur golf championship.
A mixed item featuring trivia prompts on Roy Croft shops and alter egos, plus a note on tropical forests by region and Olympic sites. It also covers a birthday nod to Olivia de Havilland and others, and a vintage career sketch of Mickey Rooney and Barbara Stanwyck with vaudeville roots and early film work.
A collage of notes cites Barbare as married to Robert Taylor and recalls Lilian Campbell’s varied career from Broadway to Hollywood 1929 and The Lock Door. It also notes World War II events in 1943 New Guinea landings and Dominion Day in Canadian provinces.
A miscellany of questions on weather, gambling odds, Alaska purchase, and opera, followed by a birthday list noting figures like William Beebe Nelson Eddy Frank Loesser and Lionel Hampton. Includes a note on discreetness in the year ahead and a brief biographical blurb about Joseph P. Kennedy.
Central Press writes of Kennedy’s rise through varied posts from news boy to head of major commissions. The family, owning seven living children with losses in World War I and a recent plane crash, reflects on fate and fortune amid a column of miscellany including manners and trivia.
The passage ponders eclipse duration and the coldest U S state, notes Babe Ruth home run records, bowling scoring limits, and presidents born on July Fourth. It recalls figures like Gus Dorais and Rommel, plus radio entertainer Fred Allen’s era, and Claudette Colbert’s Parisian education.
Claudette Colbert, famed for The Wild Westcotts debut and Love O’ Mike, won an Oscar for It Happened One Night in 1934 and was among Hollywood’s top money makers in 1935 and 1938. Her later films include So Proudly We Hail Tomorrow Is Forever Sleep My Love. Modern manners note advises avoiding the term in laws and suggests Jack’s mother as a reference.
The first transocean flight of American jet fighters will use 16 F-80 Shooting Stars from Selfridge Air Base Michigan to Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich via Labrador Greenland Newfoundland England with a scheduled July 7 takeoff under Col. CG. sieht
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