Fragmented notes and quips from a mid century column
A collage of vignettes including technology ideas with magnetic splints, holiday bill talk, a death with guts remark, police habits with glasses, a joke about scales and scales voice, long apple varieties, a Bible store display, a Turkish vow coffee custom, Catherine II’s physician fee, a St Louis radio jab, Los Angeles bar excuses, and tax time crunches showing how a man’s day is spent on taxes vs other costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Bostwick
Kan
Mable
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
St. Louis
R.A.F
Los Angeles
New Symphony To Be Introduced By Stokowski in Houston
Leopold Stokowski will introduce Dmitri Shostakovich new symphony in Houston at the Music Hall. The G minor work titled 1905 was commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and depicts revolutionary episodes with old songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Leopold Stokowski
Dmitri Shostakovich
Houston Music Hall
Shostakovich
Stokowski
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
Woman investor drives real estate empire
Mrs. Evelyn Gray Sharp, a hotel owner and investor, argues women should manage investments while men handle earnings. She recounts buying three hotels for 16 million dollars and details her disciplined, control oriented approach to business and life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward Cannel
NEA
New York
Evelyn Gray Sharp
Mrs. Sharp
Infrared Eye Warns Troops of Gas Attack
Describes an infrared eye device that detects gas in the field. A tiny gas amount crossing the beam up to 0.25 miles triggers a warning light and horn. Soldiers are alerted to don gas masks promptly.
Plane Lands Safely at Wichita After Gear Trouble
A Trans World Airlines Constellation landed safely in Wichita Kansas after circling the airport for nearly an hour due to landing gear trouble. Fourteen passengers and five crew members were aboard the four engine plane traveling from Kansas City to Wichita with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Trans World Airlines
Kansas City
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Miss Muffet
Bangor
Maine
Dorothy Morrison
Ortland
Neal O’hara
Catherine II
Russia
Thomas Dimsdale
England
Tax Foundation
Stan’s Youth Center
South Main ST
State
Beverly Wilshire
California
Eve
Monark Shade Co
N. Main
Gin
North Wrenn
High Point Enterprise
Alexander
Giga
Pitet
Cadillac
Bates
Rexander
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