Larry Parks Feels Free and Chooses a Play
Hollywood reports Larry Parks feels free after a federal judge's ruling in his contract dispute with the studio and contemplates appearing in a summer stock play. No action yet on an injunction, while MGM headlines swirl with Dore Schary in charge and Hitchcock potential. Bette Davis weighs autobiography offers as Alan Young's wife Ginny forms a vocal quintet for a TV show. Johnston office flags Riskin Washington sequences as too hot to film in The Girl From Bo Gardus.
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Glass Cloth Laminate Promises Safer Ship Insulation
A new glass cloth laminate is forecast to reduce fire and electrical risks on ships by providing high insulation values even when wet, improving safety on board.
Evening Radio Schedule of August 3, 1948 Highlights
A dense list of programs and time slots for CBS and WKBH stations, detailing dramas, news, music, variety shows, and children's segments. Notable entries include Wendy Warren Aunt Jenny stories, Helen Trent, The Jack Berch Show, Queen for a Day, Katy Klub, News of the Day, Listen to This, and Lone Ranger segments.
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Jenny
Helen Trent
Television tops listener field in Hooper rating
New York reports a Hooper rating from July 13 shows NBC Star Theater attracting 40.5 percent of TV viewing in homes with sets. Mystery Theater on CBS drew 0.8 percent in the 7 to 8 pm slot, while America's Town Meeting on ABC earned 0.7 percent in the second half hour. CBS's Mr and Mrs North captured 1.5 percent.
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Star Theater
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Horace Heidt Show Broadcast at WKBH Studio Redesign
A spotlight on Horace Heidt’s radio program notes a studio redecorating and painting broadcast from the WKBH Radio Building. A Corr els Archer segment warns against jumping to conclusions during tonight’s 8 30 pm broadcast as a hoodlum hires a gunman to kill a rival but faces unexpected outcomes in a guns and music themed tale.
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Corliss Archer
Norwalk Boy Is Polio Victim in Wisconsin
Monroe county records the season s first polio case, a 21 year old Norwalk boy named Allan Walz. He is confined to the isolation hospital at St Camillus in La Crosse with abortive polio and no paralysis, and is reported to be recovering satisfactorily.
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Arctic Ice Pack Grips Eight-Ship Navy Convoy
Eight Navy cargo ships carrying 42,000 tons face Arctic sea ice off Point Lay delaying supplies to oil bases and native villages on Alaska's upper rim. The flotilla of 2,500 sailors stalled two weeks after breakup, ice driven toward shore by north winds. Eskimos near Point Barrow and Wainwright face a desperate food situation as officers await weather and load conditions.
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Juneau
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Chemical industry employs over ninety four thousand in Germany zone
Report notes that more than 94,000 persons work in the chemical industry within the United States zone of Germany. The figure reflects ongoing industrial activity under postwar administration and hints at the sector’s significance in the occupied region.
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United States Zone
Germany
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