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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1953
Page
6
A detailed TV guide lists WEMY Channel 2 and WRTV Charlotte Channel 3 programs. Notable items include Redskins football, The Web, Password themed shows, news, dramas, game shows, and sports blocks across the afternoon to late night.
The listing shows a dense, era style schedule with numerous time slots and program titles across morning to night. It includes World News weather reports church services musical programs and talk shows reflecting a full day of broadcasting.
The listing outlines a dense Sunday radio schedule with repeated NBC CBS program blocks and guest features. Highlights include music segments, news reports, dramas, and keynotes such as Billy Graham and Alistair Cooke, alongside ongoing show lineups and station notes. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness warns that up to 750000 Americans may lose vision before year’s end.
Eastern Local Time notes that for central regions the hour is one hour earlier and mountain zones subtract two hours. Some stations adjust relays to fit local schedules while last minute changes cannot be included.
The article surveys fierce competition in the toothpaste market with new anti decay chemicals and single brushing formulas. It mentions helicopters in warfare and Korean War evacuations, a correction to a society-page marriage notice, and various trivia on metabolism, a dog sweater sizing joke, long distance thermometer devices, and musings about Longfellow.
The piece notes Edgar Guest and Edna St Vincent Millay as poets who monetized via syndication and lectures, contrasts Longfellow, and jokes about a 1954 congressional candidate on the Morris Plan. It ends with a quip about Ike fishing and cites federal cigarette tax receipts totaling 1.58 billion dollars.
Blanche Yurka will open the Woman's College 1953 54 lecture entertainment series October 1 with a one woman performance. She will present scenes by Aristophanes to Maxwell Anderson and be followed by a varied lineup of singers dancers musicians plays and lecturers through the season. The Greek Royal Festival Company Panegyris will perform October 9 depicting 3000 years of civilization. Playlikers will present two plays October 23 24 and December 4 5. Harriet Elliott Social Science Forum sessions occur November 20.
In the early days of New Mexico, vintage French wines were imported at high prices for military receptions, even as New Mexican wines were deemed excellent.
A dispute over whether Guadalupe Peak or Harney Peak is the highest east of the Rockies ends with a National Geographic Society ruling in favor of South Dakota. The society states Guadalupe Peak lies within the Rockies, not east of them, overturning a Texas claim.
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