Von Sternberg Returns to Hollywood Directing After Hiatus
Josef von Sternberg returns to Hollywood with Jet Pilot after a 1941 departure. He closes sets to visitors and shuns publicity while pushing rapid takes and a new method of avoiding actor position marking to free performances. Hughes watches quietly as set discipline intensifies.
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Armand Archerd
Central Press
Hollywood
Gower Gulch
Howard Hughes
Josef von Sternberg
von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich
Hughes
Joe
Israel studies U S police methods to modernize force
New York May lobbying for cooperation with United States authorities to help Israel build a modern police service of about 4500 officers. Inspector General Yeheskel Sahar outlines training, border patrol, traffic control, and crime reduction goals while inviting help from Mayor O Dwyer Commissioner O Brien and FBI chief J Edgar Hoover.
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New York
Yeheskel Sahar
United States
Israel
Sahar
New York City
William O'Dwyer
William P. O'Brien
Young Willkie Attacks Democrats Spending Policy
Philip Willkie son of Wendell Willkie urged a full reversal of the current economic program at the Forsyth county Lincoln day dinner in Winston-Salem. He compared Roosevelt’s wartime policy to Truman’s today arguing private capital is plentiful while public spending still crowds out private business.
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Winston-Salem
United States
Philip Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Forsyth County
Roosevelt
Truman
The Digit: the Shortest Ancient Length Measure
The text notes that the digit, the width of a human thumb, was the shortest ancient length unit. It links early measuring to body-based units and hints at historical use across cultures.
Canasta Penalty and a Pivotal Stock Pile Dispute
The article recounts a Canasta match between Oswald Jacoby and Crawford vs Fry and Lightner. Lightner violates by drawing extra cards from the stock pile, incurring a severe penalty. A second incident involves a controversial draw when only four cards remained, affecting the team’s score by over 1000 points.
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Oswald Jacoby
John R. Crawford
Sam Fry, Jr
Theodore Lightner
Lightner
Mr. Lightner
Crawford
Cincinnati Symphony At Duke University Opens 1950 Season
The Cincinnati Symphony directed by Thor Johnson will open Duke University’s 1950 concert season in Page Auditorium on February 9, as part of the University All-Star Concert Series. Johnson, a NC alumnus, leads a program featuring Mozart Vaughan Williams Alfven Villa Lobos and Strauss. Tickets are limited.
Train Hits Bus Carrying Schoolgirls and Nuns in Kansas City
A Missouri Pacific Eagle passenger train traveling about 80 mph collided with a bus carrying 26 Kansas City Catholic schoolgirls and two nuns near Kansas City. Sister Mary Lenore injured. seven girls hurt. Bus driver Clarence H. Miller, 53, faces careless driving charges and must appear in magistrate court Tuesday.
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Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Mary Lenore
St. Louis
Omaha
Eagle
Set
A. Hy Bell
Missouri Highway Patrol
Clarence H. Miller
Miller
Mary Vincentia
Jackson County
Four Jailed For Attack On Two Liquor Tax Agents
Four Greensboro men charged with beating two alcohol tax unit agents were held in county jail on $5,000 bond each. They pled not guilty before United States commissioner L Herbin with hearing set for February 27. Carl C Churchill remains hospitalized with fractured jaw and head injuries. A R Williams was bruised but not hospitalized. Agents Roy MelIntyre Bill Robert Weaver Richard Abe Summers and Philip Leon Bell were named. two others are still sought.
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Greensboro
United States
L. Herbin
Herbin
United States Marshal's Office
Carl C. Churchill
ATU
Churchill
A. R. Williams
Robert Miller
Charlotte
Roy MelIntyre
Bill Robert Weaver
Richard Abe Summers
Philip Leon Bell
Miller
Winston-Salem Man Dies In Ithaca N Y
James Andrew Sutton Jr., 35, of 664 Spring Street Winston Salem N C died Saturday from injuries after falling down basement stairs in a restaurant in Ithaca Tompkins County coroner Ralph J Low said no verdict was immediate Sutton had come to Ithaca to seek admission to Cornell University business school.
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Ithaca
N. Y
James Andrew Sutton, Jr
Spring St
Winston-Salem
N. C
Sutton
Tompkins County
Ralph J. Low
Cornell University
School of Business Administration
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