The Jazz Age Roars and Retires in America
HAL BOYLE surveys the Jazz Age noting two romantic periods, the Gay Nineties and the Roaring Twenties. It was a time of liberty and excess, genius and crime, with icons like Lindbergh and Capone, ending in the 1929 crash and a wistful longing for a glittering, flawed era.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Irving Berlin
Gertrude Ederle
Charles Lindbergh
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Bobby Jones
Bill Tilden
Red Grange
Clarence Darrow
H. L. Mencken
al (Scarface
Capone
Pola Negri
Rudolph Valentino
Wall Street
Scott Fitzgerald
Sam
Billy Graham Calls for Moral Spiritual U N Resurgence
Billy Graham told U N leaders in New York that a worldwide moral and spiritual resurgence is needed before the U N can succeed. He met Dag Hammarskjold and spoke of supplementing U N work with a global revival, urging belief in Jesus Christ as the path to peace and predicting a possible Christ’s return, potentially in a thousand years.
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Paul Sann
New York Post
George Hornby
New York
Billy Graham
United Nations
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Jesus Christ
Christ
Graham
Madison Square Garden
Considerate Robbers Nabbed In Miami Restaurant
In Miami Florida two holdup men chosen a polite ruse at a restaurant to avoid stains. They staged a napkin bed for a staged injury while cook Anthony Neilson 65 alerted police. Officers captured John L Munkhoff 27 and Buddy Klein 27 as suspects in armed robbery.
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Miami, Fla
Alys Brogan
Brogan
Anthony Neilson
John L. Munkhoff
Buddy §. Klein
Confidential Compromise Rejected in Hollywood Libel Case
In Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Herbert Walker rejected a proposed settlement in the Confidential magazine criminal libel case. The deal would have halted smear articles, dropped charges against Fred and Marjorie Meede, and ended the case against Confidential and Whisper. Trial likely to last six months with many Hollywood figures subpoenaed.
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Los Angeles
Confidential Magazine
Confidential
Tion Whisper
Fred
Marjorie Meede
Hollywood
Conti
Maga Caar Weat
Cesnist Due Mate
Herbert V. Walker
Meades
Arthur J. Crowley
Doan's Pills Marketed for Back Pain Relief
An old advertisement touts Doan's Pills for back pain and muscle strains. It claims fast relief by three actions, including mental relief and kidney effects, and promotes a long history of use and savings on new large packages.
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Doan
Last Victims Of Earthquake Sought In Mexico City
A 500 man crew worked through rubble of a five story apartment building in Mexico City seeking remaining quake victims. By today 32 bodies recovered and one death in hospital raised toll to 66 nationwide with 52 in the capital. Eleven rescued alive. one saved when a mattress shielded a woman.
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Mexico City
Pa Poe
Pacific Coast
Acapulco
Toluca
Puebla
Oaxaca
Veracruz
Chilpancingo
Guerrero
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