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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1951
Page
2
The piece argues that New Year’s Day is an artificial human construct and nature ignores calendars yet still embodies a real chance for renewal. It stresses personal responsibility, warns against overoptimism, and urges commitment to better years, urging readers to make and pursue resolutions for 1952.
A Durham bank doubling capital via a 100 per cent stock dividend is run by C. C. Spaulding and a group of Negro leaders who also control the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and other ventures. The bank serves white customers too, with a Christmas savings club including white depositors. The piece argues Southern Negroes have real economic opportunities in North Carolina and that white and Negro enterprise share in their growth.
The piece recalls Representative U S Page of Bladen County once mocked as a radical and wild west talker in the 1935 North Carolina Legislature. A Saturday night murder left Page shot ten times, altering the joke about his bombshell persona and hinting that misread boldness may mask insight.
The piece questions the Duchess of Windsor being named world's best dressed for a fifth time, asks how the panel judges outfits, and notes royal figures like Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent appearing on the top ten. It ponders costs to Britain and to American taxpayers.
Dixon offers a chronicle of mid-century absurdities in Washington with a focus on July speculation and legal evasions. The piece notes a transit strike, a caricaturists’ portrait lineup of public figures, and mentions congressional testimony on stockpiling stenographers during shortages. It also references a Democratic dinner in Atlanta led by Senator Byrd and Georgia Governor...
The piece notes tensions with the Fair Deal as Madge boasts about funds spent on food, suggesting no leftovers for Truman campaign. It cites a survey showing about 15,000 full time federal investigators outside Armed Services, plus OPS snoopers and other control agency sleuths. Cannon, 72, and Phillips, 63, clash in a slugfest over House Appropriations Committee leadership.
A 1951 year in review notes shift from victory to neutrality as the US loses its top position. It cites Truman Acheson Marshall as failing policies, McCarthy and McCarran as correcting State Department alignment, and domestic probes into graft. Taft and Eisenhower vie for 1952, while MacArthur looms as a Republican factor.
A nostalgic reflection on New York's New Year celebrations, contrasting wild nightlife and festive gaiety with loneliness and despair. The piece notes Broadway, Times Square, and house parties as symbols of fleeting happiness, while highlighting isolation, medical excess, and the search for genuine joy through love, friendship, and simple pleasures.
A reflective note from Father Time offers New Year wisdom about new beginnings and peace. The piece includes prophecies that failed to come true and Churchill's 1951 Britain comeback notes, plus a caution about Pete Gasser spreading lies. The tone is period editorial with dated references and a closing joke.
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