Runyarns Confrere Recalls Brackett And Baseball Tales
Damon Runyon recounts anecdotes about Doc Brackett and baseball greats at the Stork Club. He promotes two new books In Our Town and It Takes, praising Brackett for selfless care and a famous funeral epitaph made from the office sign.
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Damon Runyarns
Damon Runyon
Cubs
Stork Club
Damon
Doc Brackett
Our Town
John J Mailieaw
Doc Peas
Rice
Dr. Brackett
Elvira Cromwell
Junius Cromwell
Doc Brac
Kett
Elvira
Gruber
Riverview
George Gruber
Radio program changes and schedule notes for May 16
Radio listings outline program changes due to late network corrections. Time zone notes explain daylight saving adjustments and list a dense lineup of shows, serials, news, drama, and musical programs across CBS ABC NBC and local stations.
Sheep Industry Declines In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report from the State Department of Agriculture notes a steep drop in sheep numbers from about 3 million in 1867 to 384000 on January 1 1946. The count slipped below a million around the turn of the century.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agricolture
Beers Shipments to Japan for Occupation Troops
Ten million bottles of beer will be shipped to Japan for American occupation troops, announced by army headquarters at Fort Shafter in Honolulu on May 16.
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Honolulu
Japan
Fort Shafter
Headaches and Neuralgia Relief with BC Formula
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Allen Jay To Present Play Tomorrow
Allen Jay school will host the senior class play Daffy Dills Friday night at 8. The humorous story follows a large family with Father Dill played by Bobby Brewer and daughter Carol by Iva Lee Mitchell.
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Daffy Dills
Allen Jay School
Father Dill
Dills
Dill
Bobby Brewer
Carol
Iva Lee Mitchell
Pete Norton
Gaines Smith
Doris
Dudley
Peggy Smith
Eugene Cornelison
Grandmother Dill
Episcopalians and Presbyterians Move Toward Church Merger
About 300 delegates at the 75th Bethlehem diocese convention in Wilkes-Barre unanimously approve merging the Protestant Episcopal church with the Presbyterian Church in the United States. They urge the Episcopal general convention in Philadelphia this September to push for organic unity.
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Wilkes-Barre
Diocese of Bethlehem
Protestant Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Church
United States
Portestant Episcopal
Philadelphia
British Tracked Submarines Using Sea Lions in War
During World War I British forces employed trained sea lions to locate and signal submarines. The program achieved limited success, with several animals locating periscope masts and providing useful guidance to crews, though overall effectiveness varied and reliance on mammals waned as tactics evolved.
Joan Davis Child Prodigy to Hollywood Comedienne Queen
Child Ma donne Josephine Davis stunned St Paul with a serious recital then drew laughter with a later comedy routine. Joan Davis rose from vaudeville to Hollywood film and radio stardom earning top comedienne honors and a million dollar weekly show by the 1940s.
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Joan Davis
America
St. Paul
Minn
Madonne Josephine Davis
Madonne Josephine
Joan
Mechanic Arts High
Comedienne
Serenus
Si) Wills
Beverly
Wills
Davis
New York
Palace Theater
Vaudevillians
Hollywood
Rudy Vallee
My Jim
My Bill
Vallee
Coast Guard
Pilots for Chick Pitsburgh Flourish in Wartime Service
William C. Clippinger, 30, one of Pittsburgh’s early wartime pilots and European theatre combat flyer, now ferries baby chicks between Missouri Texas and New Mexico.
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Pitsburgh
William C. Clippinger
Pittsburgh
Missouri
Texas
New Mexico
Capitol Faces Water Shortage Despite Modern Conveniences
The State Capitol in Harrisburg is valued over 100 million dollars and includes many modern facilities but suffers a weak gravity system with insufficient pressure to supply water outlets on the top floors.
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Harrisburg
State Capitol
Cheyenne Man Builds Coin Separator for Meters
In Cheyenne Wyoming Bill OToole devised a coin separator to sort park meter coins. The contraption uses a funnel crank and revolving screens to separate nickels dimes and dollar coins. He claims it has grown Cheyennes treasury by hundreds of thousands though he calls it a hobby.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Bill O'Toole
O’toole
William F
Bavarian Journalism School Trains for Free Press Reform
In postwar Munich editors create a school of journalism to replenish a decimated press. The program plans to train 90 students in three to four months, selecting from 500 applicants and gratis for Germans. Principal Dr Otto Groth will lead lectures by journalists, professors, and economists.
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Godfrey Anderson
Newsfeatures
Mernberg
Munich
Ada
Ird Reich
Edmund Goldschagg
Sud- Deutsche Zeitung
Fcree
Otto Groth
Frankfurt
Goldschagg
Weimar Republic
Schiller
Jena
Ship cat with dogs on long Utica to California run
An unusual crate carried two dogs and a large yellow cat that traveled from California to Utica New York without incident. Ex pressmen noted the crate’s odd cargo and the smooth temperament of the animals during the long journey.
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Utica
N. Y
INS
California
Utic
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