COFBA brings culture to GI crowds in Paris tours
In Paris COFBA the France Allied Goodwill organization educates soldiers via lectures on wine perfume hairdressing and ballet. It partners with chambers of commerce to offer tax relief, cooking lessons, and fashion classes, drawing 5 000 students and filling venues with ballet and opera demonstrations for American and British troops.
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Paris
FBA
COFBA
Rene Pleven
Rheims
Marseilles
Nice
le Havre
Chamber of Commerce
France
Avenue Friedland
Old Ra House
Alps
Simple Home Remedy Claims Fast Rheumatic Pain Relief
An advertisement promotes Ru-Lix Compound as a two week remedy for rheumatic pain. It instructs mixing with water and lemon juice, taking three tablets twice daily, and promises relief within 48 hours. The notice claims a money back guarantee and lists Mann's Drug Store and other drug stores as suppliers.
Symphony Attracts Volunteer Subscribers In North Carolina
The North Carolina Symphony gains support from citizens statewide with donations and words of encouragement. Colonel Kermit Hunter reports a Charlotte visitor from South Carolina paid five dollars to aid the orchestra without seeking membership or a rolls listing, highlighting broad interest in musical education for children.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina Symphony
Kermit Hunter
Symphony
Charlotte
Wes
South Carolina
Madry May Run For The Senate From Orange
Chapel Hill February 2 There are two declared candidates in Orange county for state legislature seats and a third may announce James Webb vice president of Eno Mills Hillsboro will run in the Democratic primary Representative W Umstead plans another term in the house Mayor Robert W Madry of Chapel Hill may seek election to the senate A rotating seat arrangement puts Orange in line to hold the senate together with Alamance in alternating terms and the Orange voters will choose the Democratic nominee if Madry runs
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Chapel Hill
Orange County
James Webb
Eno Mills
Hillsboro
W. Umstead
Senate
House
Robert W. Madry
Alamance
Orange
W. Dennis Madry
Burlington
Madry
Neck Broken He Wants To Stay In The Service
Pittsburg report says M/Sgt. James T. Doherty, Pitt ROTC instructor with a broken neck from an Iraq accident, appeals to remain in service. About 200 Pitt students support his petition to the Adjutant General in Washington. Doherty has served five years and urges Uncle Sam to keep him as a trainer.
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Pittsburgh
INS
James T. Doherty
University of Pittsburgh
Army
Iraq
Doherty
Adjutant General
Washington
Pitt
Uncle Sam
Set
Automatic traffic brain to manage city signals advancing
A mechanical brain that remotely controls city traffic lights based on traffic load will be set 12 weeks in advance. It will rearrange go signals to create non stop routes for rush traffic and improve flow across major corridors.
Ex-Commandos To Handle London Smugglers
London authorities recruit battle hardened former commandos to combat contraband in the port. A first group of 30 recruits, aged 26 to 33, trains at the police school learning river craft harbor mechanics and smuggling mindsets, with exhibits from the crime museum.
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London
INS
Dieppe
Sicily
Italy
France
Burma
Port of London Authority
the Albert
Britain
5215 Marines Return After China Service
5215 Marines, many from the First and Sixth divisions, have returned to San Diego from China after early October island operations. They sailed from Tientsin January 12 aboard the USS Wakefield and are ready to leave the Orient to the Orientals.
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San Diego
Calif
United States
Orient
China
Tientsin
U.S.S. Wakefield
State Revenue Rise In January Totals 7.04 Million
Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gill reports January general fund receipts at 7,043,857 dollars, up 2,068,857 dollars or 41.59 percent from January 1945, driven by franchise income sales inheritance and beverage taxes.
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Raleigh
General Fund
Edwin Gill
Artists of the 20th Century Move to South America Exhibition Plans
The passage notes Louis Kelms of New York, Abraham Rattner of New York, Dorothea Tanning of New York, and Stanley Spencer of England among painters, with Dorothea Tanning among those living in South America. It states Bel Ami will supply the winning portrait while other competing artists will tour art venues in America and Europe for two years.
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New York
INS
Oge
Guy Maupassant
Cantiatia
Abraham Rattner
Stanley Spencer
England
Dorothea Tanning
America
Europe
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Albright
Oscar Wilde
Merle Oberon
Russia
Eugene Berman
Hol
Salvador Dali
California
Mexico Way
Leonora Carrington
Coe
Paul Delvaux
Brussels
Max Ernst
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W Heaten Ppin
West Chester
Rose
Mari
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