Truman Mask Surprises at New York Radio Dinner
A New York hotel dinner for radio executives featured a piano performance by a performer wearing a plastic mask of Harry S. Truman, startling the audience as the curtains opened. The gag drew gasps and held the crowd enraptured.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Chicago
St. Helena
Ore
New Haven
Gem Hoover Administration
Doll Gann
Charles E. Curtis
Willoughby Returns to U S En Route to Washington
Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby leaves a ship in San Francisco saluting as he heads to testify before a Congressional committee. The former intelligence chief to Gen. Douglas MacArthur retires after 40 years of service and says he will offer modest services to the general. In another note, a bridge hand by Ivan Hall and William Mouser leads to a contract in clubs during the Life Masters Individual Tournament of 1950.
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Washington
Charles A. Willoughby
San Francisco
Douglas MacArthur
International Soundphoto
Ivan Hall
Pittsburgh
William Mouser
Detroit
Mouser
Hall
West
East
Air Force ends search for two missing F 84 jets
FRANKFURT Germany The U S Air Force abandoned a three day hunt for two F 84 jets feared lost in Communist Europe. Long range planes and helicopters scoured Western Germany near the Iron Curtain without success and the disappearance has been reported to the Soviet air controller in Berlin. Names of the missing men were not disclosed.
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Frarnkfurt
Germany
U. S
Europe
Iron Curtain
Frig
Air Force
Berlin
Thieves Skip 13th Yarn Carton After Textile Plant Break‑in
In Woonsocket Rhode Island investigators report superstitious thieves broke into the Dauray Textile plant and stole 12 cartons of yarn valued at 4000 dollars but did not take a 13th carton as they fled the scene.
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Woonsocket, R. L
Dauray Textile, Inc
Poke salad detains train crew at Memphis crossing
A hungry train engineer stopped traffic at a Memphis crossing to gather poke salad, a herb-like weed considered a delicacy by some. The incident tied up rail traffic for a period as the engineer collected the plant.
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Memphis
Tenn
Veteran bargeman finds no romance on land
Louisville Ky a veteran riverman Walt Garland after 20 years on the Ohio River says he will miss no river life and will stay on land. The Virginia native, with a peg leg and weathered face, lived in a cabin on a 4.47 foot barge pushed from Astoria to Evansville with a motor boat. He plans to remain in an old soldier's home.
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Louisville
Walt Garland
Garland
Virginia
Ast Jland
Evansville
Ind
Old Soldier's Home
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