No Emergency Claims Amid Truman Key West Vacation
The piece criticizes President Truman for saying there is no emergency while crises mount. It cites Korea war actions, stalled truce talks, rising inflation, administration scandals, and widespread public discontent. The writer questions why Truman remains in Florida and urges return to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Florida
Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
McGrath
Key West
Korea
United States
Harry Truman
Alumni Drive Considered To Fund NC Universities
Greensboro meeting by University of North Carolina officers and alumni association leaders discussed an annual fund raising drive among UNC units. Judge Earle Rives, Chapel Hill alumnus and Greensboro official, is urged to lead the campaign regardless of Governor Scott's possible reappointment decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of North Carolina
University’s Alumni Association
Greensboro
Consolidated Institution
Gordon Gray
E. Earle Rives
Chapel Hill
Judge Rives
State College
Woman’s College
Rives
Municipal County Court
Scott
Greensboro Daily News
North Carolina
Rice
Not a Recruiting Bureau For Vinson's path to the presidency eyed
The article argues Chief Justice Vinson is pressed by Truman era talk as a potential presidential candidate. It warns using the Supreme Court as a stepping stone harms judiciary and recalls past figures like Hughes and Byrnes while stressing the need for an independent high court and limited political use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinson
Truman
High Court
Acheson
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
White House
Our betrayals at San Francisco over China’s exclusion
The speaker argues that Nationalist China, allied with the U S in World War I and at war with Japan since 1931, was excluded from the San Francisco peace treaty conference while Soviet Russia attended. He claims the arrangement placed China on equal footing with Communist China, a move he views as shameful and politically driven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
China
Japan
United States
Russia
Yalta
Stalin
Soviet Russia
Far East
Yoshida
State Department
John Foster Dulles
Formosa
Hongkong
Dulles
Soviet China
Congress
Senate
Asia
America
John Foster Dukes
Tom Connally
The Elusive Open Mood In Portraiture And Writing
A newsletter style essay explores how a sculptor captures a sitter’s mood by dialogue and timing. It reflects on memory, writing about sunsets, a night blooming cereus, and Mrs. Edgar Hartley. It ends with critique of diplomacy surrounding the San Francisco treaty and Japan.
Glamour and lawsuits ripple through Broadway pages
A flood of industry notes covers Romberg omissions in a Playhouse ad, Doris Day and An Sothern career twists, South Pacific reviews, Mary Pickford deals, and legal battles over ghostwriting and royalties. NBC, Deseret Fox, and Keystone casting moves mingle with fashion and publicity quirks from Hollywood to Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigmund Romberg
America
Paper Mill Playhouse
London
South Pacific
Variety
Mary Pickford
Rialto
Joyce Mathews
Fame
Robert Taylor
Shelley Winters
F. Granger
NBC
State Dept
Joans
Dave Garroway
Greer Garson
Gratitude From the Heart in High Point Community
A High Point reader writes heartfelt thanks to civic leaders and churches for support during a crisis, praising the YMCA, schools, hospital, scouts, and churches. Another tribute honors Mrs. Hartley, noting her lasting spiritual impact and the family’s sorrow, as a man recalls her kindness and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Sanders
Dallas
High Point
Y.M.C.A
Boy Scouts
Edgar Hartley
Jesus Christ
Mrs. Hartley
Mr. Hartley
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W. A. Bivins
Davidson
New York
Spencer
Coronet Magazine
Ray Bolger
Ray Baker
Robert Benchley
Halimwood
George Sokolsky
Walter Winchell
William Saroyan
Ross Bagdasarian
C. Mills
Lombardo
Glenn Miller
Morey Amsterdam
Martin & Lewis
Teevy
Ghosts
Sidney Armus
Billy Rose
Beekman Place
Eleanor
Gabor
George Sanders
Netty
Si Hassan
Pascha
Hollywood
Countess de Cadenet
Valerie Vernon
Dorothy Hart
Tarzan
Steve Cochran
Warners
Bright Hope
Proctor & Gamble
The
American Legion
Kings County
Dick Eastham
Pac
Eastham
Nevada
Tennessee Williams
Elia Kazan
Jerome Robbins
Jo Mielziner
Lucinda Ballard
Bob Kennedy
Richard Kiley
Robert Webber
Paulette Goddard
Richard Ney
Paulette
Webber
Ney
Ruth Hussey
Madeleine Carroll
la Goddard
Joey
Robert Alton
Agnes de Mille
J. Styne
Styne
Doris Ruby
Cafe Society
Walter Woolf King
Harry Belafonte
Village Vanguard
Sanders
Slim
Mars
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