Kefauver urges Lions to back North Atlantic federation
Senator Estes Kefauver asked Lions Club members in Atlantic City to mobilize grass roots support for a North Atlantic Federation. He warned Communism aims to erase borders and cited a pending Congressional resolution for a NATO nation representatives meeting to discuss federation, noting 786 days without action.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Estes Kefauver
Lions Club
North Atlantic
Tennessee Democrat
The
Lions International
Postman’s Platter Party Broadcasts For Forces In Korea
A new 45 minute weekly radio show called Postman’s Platter Party debuts for United Nations forces in Korea. Miss Kay Dale and S Sgt Skip Ellis of the U S Air Force host the musical request program to be beamed to Korea with postcards letters or cables addressed to Postman’s Platter Party Tokyo AFRS API 500 Care postmaster San Francisco Calif for home messages and musical requests.
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United Nations
Korea
Care
San Francisco
Calif
Bailey to teach high school after eight births
Fred Bailey, who became the father of eight children before finishing school, will take over as a high school teacher this year. He spoke of balancing his life goal to teach with family duties, noting a busy domestic moment as he prepared for his new job.
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Toronto
Canada
Fred Bailey
Cation
I Ata Sion
Universit
Bailey
Roosevelt weekend ad promises deluxe escape from city life
An advertisement invites readers planning to leave their wives to bring them for a weekend at Hotel Roosevelt New York. It highlights midtown location at Madison Avenue and 45th Street with direct Grand Central passage and Hilton style hospitality. Illustrated booklets available.
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New York
Roosevelt
Brown
Supreme Midtown
Hilton
Madison Ave
45Th St
Grand Central Terminal
Sennett’s Keystone era and early Hollywood anecdotes
Sennett named his Keystone studio after the Pennsylvania Railroad train. He created the Keystone cops and mentored stars like Charlie Chaplin Marie Dressler Mabel Normand Chester Conklin Ben Turpin and Mack Swain. He introduced Hollywoods first foreign racing car and got stuck in mud on Sunset Boulevard while showing Thomas Inces studio. Chaplins early pay was 125 a week.
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Ack Sennett
Keystone
Hollywood
Keystone Cops
Charlie Chaplin
Marie Dressler
Mabel Normand
Chester Conklin
Ben Turpin
Mack Swain
Sennett
Thomas Ince
Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles
Bing Crosby
Chaplin
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
War Threat Endangers Braunton Burrows Dune in Devon
A British report warns that wartime training plans threaten Braunton Burrows on Barnstaple Bay, a dune with 77 of 78 western Britain plant species. Botanists credit preservation efforts, including snail succinea arenaria, but Combined Operations plans to use the area for drills. Nature laments the likely loss if damaged beyond repair.
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London
U. P
Britain
Braunton Buroe
Barnstaple Bay
Devonshire
Braunton Burrows
Braunton
Nature
Peddle Shares In European Tour
Two Boston Agretente journalism students plan a summer tour funded by selling 1 share stock to investors. Kiam E. wr 22 Waterbury Conn and John T. Coates 3 Salt Lake City Utah will mail post cards from overseas and visit relatives to pay dividends to subscribers. They sail from Montreal aboard a Greek freighter with minimal gear and plan reports from Britain Scandinavia Germany Austria France and Italy.
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Boston
Boston Agretente
Sellow
Kiam E. Wr
Waterbury
Britain
Germany
Austria
France
Italy
Harry McElhone laments vanished zip of American tourists in Paris
In Paris Harry McElhone of Harry's New York Bar recalls the Grand Tour era and laments that American visitors have grown well behaved and less culturally inclined. He notes a 1951 tourism boom with around 500000 Americans but predicts no wild beer records this season.
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U. S
Paris
Harry McElhone
New York
Harry
Rue Daunou
Par
Vine Defies Frost With 26 Inch Pea Vine In Indiana
Brice Loop in Kokomo Indiana shows a green pea vine reaching 26 inches after being planted early and surviving repeated snowfalls and several severe freezes.
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Kokomo, Ind
Brice
Harvard's Dana Palmer House Welcomes Distinguished Guests
Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University's Dana Palmer house serves as a 129 year old yellow clapboard residence for visiting dignitaries. It features 19th century antiques loaned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and other institutions. Noted guests include ex King Peter of Yugoslavia and UN delegate Seis Deniare Unie of Tokyo.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard University
Blair
Dana-Palmer
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Dana-Palmer House
Peter
Yugoslavia
United Nations
Seis Deni
Unie
Tokyo
Service racer wins at Moose function in Plymouth
In Plymouth Indiana a service racer Noah Samuels won a Moose club function event while Greenlee’s across-the-street competitor placed second. The Nebraska state bird was noted as the western meadowlark in a separate line.
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Plymouth
Ind
Jenningsoll
Noah Samuels
Greenlee
Nebraska
Foreclosure Sale Looms on High Point Lands
By power of sale in a Deed of County the trustee H N Willard will auction May 20 1951 description of Lots 9 and 9 1 2 Fastside Park No 1 Guilford County plat and High Point Township at 11 00 A M Saturday June 20 1951 in front of the County Building South Main Street High Point N C to the highest cash bidder.
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South Main Street
High Point
N.C
High Point Township
Fastside Park
Office Register of Deeds
Guilford County
H. N. Williard
Executors notice to claim Charlies E. Sheloff estate Guilford NC
Having qualified as Executors of the estate of Charlies E. Sheloff deceased of Guilford County NC all persons with claims against said estate must present them within one year from this date or be barred. Also those owing the estate should settle immediately. This the 6th day of June 1951 Bess Sideloff Gay Hensley. Notice of summons by publication North Carolina Guilford County in the Municipal Court of the City of High Point Fred W. Nicks.
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Charlies E. Sheloff
Guilford County
North Carolina
Bess Sideloff
Gay Hensley
City of
High Point
Fred W. Nicks
Gertrude Key Nicks
M. W. Nash
Municipal Court
Silas B. Casey
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