Newlyweds Stop Off In New York
Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor, en route to a European honeymoon, paused at Idlewild Airport New York with 112 others and planned to depart for Spain soon. They married in Las Vegas earlier after Fisher’s Nevada divorce from Debbie Reynolds and expect a 10 day yacht cruise along the Spanish coast.
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New York
Eddie Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor
Las Vegas
Nev
Los Angeles
Pat Newcomb
Idlewild Airport
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Fisher
Miss Taylor
Spain
Madrid
Barcelona
Santa Maria
Hollywood
Tropicana Hotel
Jewish War Veterans
Nevada
Debbie Reynolds
Almy
Liz
Miss Reynolds
David Zenoff
Idlewild
Eisenhower Nixon to head fund drive for congressional campaigns
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon will headline a $100-a-plate dinner on June 8 to raise about $400,000 for congressional campaign needs. The plan aims to bolster funds while party contributors resist funneling large shares to the National Committee.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Congress
Republicans
House Campaign Committee
Senatorial Committee
National Committee
House
Senate
Barry Goldwater
Ariz
Senate Committee
Richard M. Simpson
House Committee
Convicts to Air Grievances After Fort Pillow Riot
Convicts at Fort Pillow Tennessee will air grievances before state officials after a 14 hour dormitory revolt ended with two guards freed unharmed. State Corrections Commissioner Hampton will spend two days investigating grievances from poor food to alleged brutality, including lashings by inmates.
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Fort Pillow
Tenn
Hampton
George Washington Commanded Continental Army at Age Forty Three
The record notes George Washington was 43 when he led the Continental Army amid the early American struggle. The fragment mentions injuries in coal mines but lacks clear attribution or full context.
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George Washington
Continental Army
Scar Red Fields Mark Air Disaster That Killed 31
Fresh plowed fields ringed by trees show scars from a Capital Airlines Viscount crash that killed 31. Witnesses describe a ball of fire and bodies and plane parts falling. Residents near the site recall the moment and the aunt of the galles, while ambulances were summoned.
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Baltimore
Capital Airlines
Walter Bevans Sr
Bevans
Wrecks Mark Roadside After Collision Near Plowed Field
A damaged roadway and twisted metal lie across the road with no clear explanation. Fifty yards away in the plowed land another mass of wreckage suggests a second impact or debris from the same incident.
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Nance Committee
General Nygens
Tire Service, Inc
Charles FE
Fedders
Bedford Sales CO
N. Wrenn St
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