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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1939
Page
7
The crossword fills with hints and solutions guiding across and down entries. Pictured actor network conscious drain period and more share clues such as sauna, attic, ivory, and harbor terms linking to a theater theme.
Hollywood correspondent recalls how the Marx Brothers improvise during filming of A Day At the Circus directed by Eddie Buzzell. On set antics include Harpo sleeping, a popgun salute, and a legal Eagle gag as Groucho Chico and Harpo clash with director Buzzell over set direction and secrecy. The scene features Buster Keaton among the gag team and light friction with studio control.
Iris and Bart Whittaker clash over budget living in Linwood as Iris pursues costly social life while Bart clings to a savings plan. Bart discovers the strain grows after a dinner out and a proving budget book, leaving him wary of their future together.
A mixed newspaper page features Miaon Bronner's Europe quiz with questions on royalty and diplomats, plus a Marilyn style Marx Brothers sketch. It also reports Hollywood sabotage rumors about a tiny saboteur who cuts scenes in transit, with claims of a demonic little man aboard trains.
A Danish medical study notes a rise in gastric and duodenal ulcers among men from 1876 to 1915, then a fall 1915 to 1919, with a lasting increase since 1919 due to better diagnosis. Women show a steady decline. wartime living conditions and reduced tight lacing may have lowered rates.
A small English lesson highlights common errors in usage pronunciation and spelling. It notes phrases to avoid such as Watch out or you will fall down and explains the word finite as limited to creature understanding.
Brief excerpt presents a rapid, minute by minute look at events as they occur, describing a global sense of motion and unfolding destiny through a sensory reading experience. The piece emphasizes immediacy and the passing moment as events unfold in real time.
A rapid montage shows global activity in one minute with West Point costs food and fuel flows. Facts include U S imports two thousand yards of jute, blast furnace products worth 1350 dollars, British soap output, French wheat self sufficiency, Canadian tea imports, Mexican vegetable shipments, calcium erosion losses, and interior land protection spending.
Answers reveal trivia on currency, debt, language, and nautical time. The average life of a U S dollar, lowest national debt under Andrew Jackson, faux pas meaning a false step, and a day divided into seven periods at sea with four four-hour watches and two two-hour dog watches.
The Uncle Ray column recalls a boy who picked berries for a penny a box and ate more than he earned. It covers strawberry history from Europe to North America, naming wild origins, Anglo-Saxon roots, Iroquois references, and the rise of strawberry farming to a major industry with yearly yields moving from 40 000 bushels to millions. It ends with a note offering a free illustrated leaflet and tomorrow's topic.
A primer on the Culbertson four five no trump convention detailing what the bid guarantees the required responses and when to employ the slam method. It covers partner disclosure and the sign off by the responder, outlining rules for when to bid five no trump or six in the final trump suit.
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