New York Showbiz Snippets Stir Pre Christmas Theater
Walter Winchell sketches the theater week with mixed fortunes. A musical dives $16,900 in gross while Boston crowds pay up to $31,300 for The Great Sebastians and Red Roses for Mr. Victor Borge adds to a solo-run fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scrooge
Variety
Cash Register
Boston
Alf & Lynn
Sean O'Casey
Victor Borge
Victor
Ty Power
Washington
Coleman
McClain
Mirror of Your Mind and Mental Health Question
A juvenile mindset piece discusses how twelve year olds seek inclusion yet resist social rituals and dress codes. It notes peers may be persuaded to join events while balancing autonomy and peer pressure. A health expert answers whether schizophrenia has a known cause, citing Dr George Stevenson of the National Association for Mental Health.
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George 8. Stevenson
National Association For Mental Health
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Fresh air linked to better sleep and mental vigor
Article notes schizophrenia rooted in physiological predisposition with adverse emotions triggering episodes. It states current treatments aid recovery and discharge rates rose from 30 to about 60 percent over decades. Fresh air is claimed to improve sleep by aiding waste elimination and increasing daytime vigor.
Broad cast of media musings and political quips
A collage of media gossip and editorial snips with political and cultural jabs. It notes surveys showing Ike at 58 percent and Stevenson at 39, plus assorted quotes from figures like Marguerite Higgins and Susan Hayward. The piece lampoons education, religion, and Hollywood, ending with a quip about cold buses and empty cabs.
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Russia
Japan
Ike
Stevenson
P. c
Winchell
Eisenhower
U. S
Marguerite Higgins
Record Sales Surge Across U S as 1955 Ends
Businessmen report strong year end results with holiday sales up as much as 20 percent in many areas while railroads post higher earnings. Steel output tops 116 million tons and construction spends reach 42 billion dollars as American industry hits new records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Dawson
New York
Association of American Railroads
Exowina
National Machine Tool Builders Assn
Algeria Area and Sahara Zone Details
Algeria covers about 852600 square miles, with roughly 770000 square miles lying within the Saharan zone. The figures highlight the vast arid interior and the desert's dominance in the nation's geography.
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Algeria
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Walter Winchell
Henry Luce
Time, Inc
Sports Illustrated
Hearst
Sports Afield
Anna Magnani
Shirley Schrift
Shelley Winters
Maurice Evans
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Louisiana
Ashcans
Edith Piaf
Carney Hall
Jon Wilder
the Matchmaker
Harold Lloyd
Robert Q
Lewis
Katharine Hepburn
London
Lola Pergament
Dinty Moore
Joe DiMaggio
Douglas MacArthur
Time
Columm
Wotta Square
Hamelin
Collier
Paisan
Gleason
People Today
McCall
Marlon
Frankee
Eddie
Holiday
Yarrop
John Steinbeck
Paris
U. S. News-World Report
By Joseph Whitney
Woodrow Wilson
J. M. Barrie
Herb Schriner
al Fields
Susan Hayward
Lillian Roth
Gloria Vanderbilt
H. Hays Moran
N. Y. Times
Lloyd's
Seohe
Mr. Vesuvius
Soph
Bijou
Ruth
Montgomery
INS
Kremlin
Lemmee
Dixie
Tuck
Wigwam
Vienna
Chi
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Florida
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
High Point
S. Main
THE
Coca-Cola Company
Coke
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