Broadway Plays to Watch in New York This Summer
Guide to shows likely to run through July and August in New York theaters. Notable productions include South Pacific Death of a Salesman Kiss Me Kate Detective Story Mister Roberts A Streetcar Named Desire Lend An Ear As the Girls Go Where’s Charley Goodbye My Fancy and High Button Shoes. Some plays will pause for eight weeks from June 25 with Anne of the Thousand Days and The Madwoman of Chaillot returning August 22 Miss Liberty opens July 7 at Imperial Theater.
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Arthur Miller
Drama Critics’ Circle
Pulitzer People
Kate
Cole Porter
Sidney Kingsley
New York City
Ralph Bellamy
Mister Roberts
Henry Fonda
Tennessee Williams
West Coast
Bobby Clark
Charley
Ray Bolger
Howdy
Mr. Ice
Center Theater
Fancy
Madeleine Carroll
Miss Carroll
Ruth Hussey
Chaillot
Anne of
Dutch to Begin Pullout From Jogjakarta Capital
Netherlands official says troops will start leaving the Indonesian capital Jogjakarta soon amid reports that a Republican regime has reached a final agreement with Dutch authorities.
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Batavia
Java
Netherlands
Jogjakarta
Steel Contract Talks Recessed Indefinitely in Pittsburgh
U S Steel Corp and CIO United Steelworkers recessed contract talks indefinitely after the union’s verbal presentation. Philip Murray CIO USW president will prepare a written case for Monday with further negotiations planned. Union seeks wage increases and company paid insurance while opposing a company financed pension. The union represents 175000 workers across six U S Steel subsidiaries.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
Ciio-United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
CIO
USW
U. S. Steel
Alaskan Pilot Joe Crosson Dies in Seattle
Joe Crosson one of Alaska’s famed pilots died Tuesday in Seattle. In 1935 he flew the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post from Point Barrow after their plane crash, a notable moment in northern aviation history.
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Seattle
Joe Crosson
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
Point Barrow
Post
GI Dividend Outlook Told
The Veterans Administration announced a $2.8 billion special dividend on 20 million National Service Life Insurance policies held by 16.5 million World War II veterans. Younger veterans and those who converted policies into permanent forms are expected to receive larger shares. details of the scale and eligibility rules were not yet released.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Carl R. Gray, Jr
AVA
Veterans Agency
Wage disputes held up across major industries
The Labor department said hundreds of wage disputes are stalled as parties pursue settlements in steel, auto, electrical manufacturing and other sectors. Six industries have reached agreements to hold no wage increases now or reopen later after pattern-setting talks finish, including farm equipment, building construction, textiles, west coast lumber, paper and flat glass.
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Washington
U.P
Labor Department
Conflict Over Laws Seen in Beer Sales
Three cases in Milwaukee involving sale of beer to persons 18 years old were dismissed due to a conflict between state law and a city ordinance. Dist. Judge John Barry ruled the legislature legalized beer sales to 18 and older, while the city prohibits sale to anyone under 21.
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Milwaukee
John Barry
Barry
Governors Seek Plan to Cut Traffic Death Toll
At the 41st annual national governors conference in Colorado Springs governors pressed for a concrete traffic safety plan. Governor Val Peterson of Nebraska cited estimates of injuries every 25 seconds, deaths every 18 minutes, and costs of 170 thousand dollars per hour, urging uniform driver licenses inspections and road markings and signals.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
U.P
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Killing Told of Brother by Fort Smith Youth
An 18 year old boy in Fort Smith Arkansas confessed to police that he accidentally killed his eight year old brother Preston in 1942 while demonstrating what he would do to the Germans. Sheriff Maddux said the case is being treated as involuntary manslaughter and a hearing is likely.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Prentice Maddux
Charles Dens
Preston
Owens
Maddux
Charles
Maddox
Perk soap touted by Detroit woman and dog
Mrs George Leffler of Detroit says her dog Lucky fetches items from the store using notes. She praises Perk soap for cleaning power claiming it washes snow white and saves one third on soap costs, asserting Lucky is smarter for bringing it home.
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Lucky
George Leffler
Memorial
Detroit
Perk
Aircraft Carrier Goes in Mothballs
The USS Antietam, a 27 000 ton Essex type aircraft carrier, was decommissioned yesterday at the Alameda naval air station after serving in the Orient following World War II. Launched in Philadelphia in August 1944, the ship moves to mothballs as part of postwar reductions.
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Alameda
Cal
Antietam
Philadelphia
Naval Air Station
Orient
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