Holiday road carnage and city humor mix in Se section
The column notes holiday road fatalities and injuries, citing safety council tallies and grim headlines. It mocks public sentiment while warning that daily traffic deaths rival holiday totals, then shifts to light jests about local trivia and satirical quips from the press and culture world.
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National Safety Council
Yale
Safety Council
PCH
Lakewood Blvd
Los Coyotes
Harper
Everett Dirksen
Public Safety
S. F
Herb Caen
Paul Tracys
San Pedro
Park Ave
Ted Kree
Tristan and Isolde
Metropolitan Opera
Tristan
Dristan and Isolde
Hedda Hopper Payola Probe Targets TV Show Fees
New York AP Ed Sullivan asked the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA to probe whether Hedda Hopper pays stars to appear on her NBC program by listing them in her column. Sullivan said Hollywood agents reported Hopper paid ten thousand dollars for a Christmas show appearance and questioned if such fees are token payments or influence star participation.
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New York (Ap
Ed Sullivan
Wa Umans
Hedda Hopper
Hollywood
NBC
Sulli
Ja van
CBS
Sullivan
Gary Cooper
Bette Davis
Mickey Rooney
Lucille Fall
Tion
Jimmy Stewart
Walt Disney
Francis X. Bushman
Ramontors Guild
Navarro
Gloria Swanson
Tony Perkins
Janet Gayon
Charlton
Thel Heston
Screen Actors Guild
Miss Mopper
Union
Ronald
Kenneth Groot
the News
York
AFTRA
Meston
Hopper
Helshaw
Buest
Brown names fire marshal amid Sacramento reshuffle
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr announces Ray Shukcraft as fire marshal candidate to succeed the retiring Joe Yockers. Shukcraft, 46, president of the Federated Fire Fighters of California and former California Federation of Civil Service Associates leader, is a Democrat with a wife and three children.
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Sacramento
Edmund G. Brown
Sullivan
Miss Lop
Ray Shukcraft
San Diego
Hag
Joe R. Yockers
Ag State Fire
Yockers
Shukcraft
Federated Fire Fighters of California
California Federation of Civil Service Assas
Shukraft
Humphrey to Announce Candidacy for 1960 Nomination
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota scheduled a news conference for this morning in Washington to declare his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960.
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Humphrey
Wasilington
Sen
Hobert H. Humphrey
D.minn
Boy swept to sea during fishing trip tragedy continues
Jenkins and his mechanic friend and his son were fishing on a jetty when 14-year-old Jimmie Lindbergh was swept into the sea. Lifeguards and divers searched under strong currents as the 3,600-foot jetty scene yielded no trace before dawn.
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Boy
Jenkins
Jimmie
James
Berry
Seal Way
Coast Guards
Met
Coddington
Gift Sent to Ludwig on His 189th Birthday
Officials in Bonn donated two dollars to charity after mail to Ludwig von Beethoven in Bonn could not be delivered. A note inside read good old Ludwig best wishes on your 189th birthday. Beethoven died in 1827.
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Ludwig
Bonn
Germany
UPI
Ludwig von Beethoven
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