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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1950
Page
6
Hollywood veteran Charlie Ruggles predicts television will center in California, not Manhattan, as studios shift to telefilms. He notes Hollywood has superior facilities and calls for stars to commit to weekly TV, warning film icons against limited TV appearances.
Paramount ranks new magnetic tape recorders from the sound department head Loren G. Ryder as a major simplification of soundtrack procedures. The system uses two suitcase sized boxes and a portable control, replacing the old dial laden desks, with cameras driving the tape for automatic synchronization and direct transfer to the film soundtrack after daily shoots.
Hollywood reports Burl Ives living on a New York East River houseboat may redo the stunt with an army surplus hall in plans by John Lloyd Wright. He teases a TV program Burl Ives Houseboat from his river home.
In Roxboro the town buzzes over party line chatter and telephone etiquette. An anecdote recalls a speaker who refused to talk until weeks later when he returned with a statement from Einstein.
Fuller Rice in second grade was told to memorize a Bible verse by his teacher. His mother helped him, and he knew the verse at bedtime and next morning. When asked to recite, he said a casual version: Dont be scared, it aint nobody but me.
A Mullins Enterprise note says writers should follow Professor Einstein. It recalls a banquet in his honor at a large Eastern university where the university president introduced him as guest.
A Wagram couple visited a Laurinburg supermarket where the husband tried thrice to discreetly stop his wife from buying turnips. The green coat clad woman at the produce counter ignored his pleas as he recalled Mrs Nichols of turnips in her garden.
Benjamin Swalin leads 23 musician group on westward leg of fifth annual tour after eastern stops. Concerts listed in Mount Airy Newton Boone Appalachian Mars Hill Wilkesboro North Wilkesboro and multiple other towns from Feb 27 to Mar 28 with children’s concerts and college engagements. The tour ends May with Full Symphony joining for remainder.
Dailey notes his early recordings included Betty Grable dancing in My Blue Heaven and later Ann Miller performing a machinegun speed tap routine.
WHPS weekly broadcasts run 6 30 each weekday with a salute to Longfellow and an accordion, a book quiz directed by Rose mary Rainey, a dramatization of Silas Marner, a dean’s office newscast, and student announcers clubs handling Friday’s program.
Chicago police and private detectives will guard the Lake Shore Drive apartment of Phillip D Armour IV for 24 hours after anonymous threats aimed at him and his three children. Police trace the calls to two men and a woman with ransom suspected as the motive. The Armour family residence overlooks Lake Michigan at 1500 North Lake Shore Drive.
The founder of the Armour Meat Packing Company married his wife who is heir to a $14 million trust left by her great grandfather. The couple wed recently, linking two prominent business lineages.
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