Stevenson and Truman Could Strain Presidential Campaign Ties
Stevenson plans his own campaign with Truman's help likely limited. The piece warns Truman's active backing could backfire, citing Kerr Scott's NC races where Scott's emdirect support hurt successors. It suggests Truman may help some voters switch away, risking two gained votes per lost one.
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Adlai Stevenson
United States
Truman
Stevenson
North Carolina
Kerr Scott
Scott
Frank Graham
Senate
Hubert Olive
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Movement to draft Charles Carroll for State Superintendent
The Greensboro Daily News reports educators favor Charles Carroll as a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The move hinges on broad support from teachers and public life figures, not politicians. The piece warns that divided backing could empower a longtime politician like John Lang.
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Charles Carroll
Arthur Johnson
Greensboro Daily News
High Point
Charlie Carroll
Carroll
Democratic Executive Committee
Friends of the Public Schools
O. Arthur Kirkman
Charlie Carrell
John Lang
C. B. Deane
Dismissive Officials Skeptical of Flying Saucers Face Scrutiny
The piece criticizes Air Force leaders and editors for dismissing saucer reports as hoaxes. It urges bypassing the high brass and entrusting investigations to open minded scientists who embrace wonder and inquiry. The essay recalls past refusals to accept radar and atomic research, arguing history shows caution breeds stagnation.
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Kitty Hawk
N. C
Air Force
High Brass
Turpentine Drippings and City Nicknames Spark North Carolina Talk
A rambling North Carolina column ponders local demonyms from Greensboro Greensburghers to Chapel Hill Hillites amid playful quips about city identities. It notes a voter runoff fiasco in the state and recounts small anecdotes from Raleigh, Tarawa Terrace, and Hollywood, North Carolina, with light social commentary.
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Greensboro Daily News
Piedmont Plateau
Gate City
Burg
Hamburg
Germany
Winston
Pou Bailey
Whiteville
North Carolina
Charlie Jahnson
Frank Graham
Wake County
Yadkin County
Redden O Quinnts red ankles and blues from huckleberries
Reports from Sampson say Redden O Quinn's mouth and ankles turned blue and red after picking huckleberries chiggers attacked his ankles. He says the family gathered about a bushel of blues despite the itching. Ada Holt packs a cherished clock to Georgia.
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Redden O’quinn
Redden
Sampson
Smithfield
Ada Holt
Princeton
Georgia
Hubert Cox
Bentonville
Chiggers Bother Charlotteans In Medical Advisory
A Charlotte News report discusses chiggers, red mite larvae that bite humans. It cites Dr Bethel at the Health Department and describes how the larvae grasp skin, pierce it, and inject a dissolving secretion, with urgent warning about their nuisance.
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Tom Fesperman
Charlotte News
Bethel
Health Department
Brief comments on teen girls and a Dorothy Dix dilemma
A Salisbury ne Post writer jokes teen girls prefer men over boys. A Durham Daily News Dorothy Dix column quotes a husband lamenting his wife’s monthly nights out dancing while keeping a perfect home and frugal spending, as he complains about her social outings.
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Salisbury Ne
Durham Daily News
Dorothy Dix
Miss Dix
New York City Baby Sitters Get Real Dough
Walter Winchell reports on rising babysitting costs as families pay up to ten dollars nightly to see films and enjoy city pleasures. He recaps celebrity gossip, theater chatter, and East Coast nightlife with quick sketches of figures from Broadway, cinema, and society amid a bustle of humor and hotel gossip.
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Atlantic Beach
Jeevy
Center St
Rain Winslow
Harry Snow
Josh
High Pork Heat and Human Errors in a Column
A mixed column blends satire on escalating meat prices with notes on heat and a temper column. It recounts a 12-year-old boy’s corporal punishment at an Oxford orphanage, plus a court martial reprimand for Maj. General Robert W. Grow over leaked diary secrets and wartime rhetoric.
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Harold Wilson
Oxford Hanage
Bob Davis
Harold
Wilson
A. D. Leon Gray
Grow
Robert W. Grow
Frankfurt
Germany
United States
U.S
Moscow
Russia
Robert E. Lee
Rufus Choate
Ipswich
New England
West claims leadership in Europe since 1947
Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman and Senator Robert A. Taft comment on postwar strategy. Harriman asserts U.S. initiative in Europe since 1947, while Taft warns that remaining in Korea could have avoided an attack. Japanese ambassador Eikichi Araki states Japan's commitment to the free democratic world.
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Europe
W. Averell Harriman
Korea
Robert A. Taft
Japan
The
U. S
Eikichi Araki
Widow Reunites with Whirling Joe in Afterlife
A widow dies about a year after her spouse. At the pearly gates, she asks to see him. A gatekeeper demands better identification, and she recalls his last words about not wasting his money. The tale ends with the nurse noting he’s known as Whirling Joe.
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Salzburg
Austria
George London
Los Angeles
Bill Bloomingdale
Nantucket
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Cassidys
Sherwood Dodge
Veep
Foote, Cone & Belding
Betty Grant
Edgewater
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Sooo Jellies
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the Palace
Anita Roddy Eden
T. Madville
Youngstown (O
Runyon Cancer Fund
Kentucky
Kefauver
Stevenson
96Th St
Evita
Fatso Farouk
Kong
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Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Pearly Gates
Joe Smith
Joe
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