Van Vooren Targets Range Beyond Type Casting on TV
Monique Van Vooren, famed as a supper club chanteuse, seeks to escape type casting by taking a noncomic, non singing role on NBCs Show of the Week. She will portray a Mata Hari style spy in Trick or Treason, aiming to shed her French accent for broader parts. The actress recalls wartime Brussels hardships during German occupation in World War I.
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New York
Monique van Vooren
France
Miss van Vooren
NBC
Monique
Brussels
Belgium
Boss Needs Meter to Add Up His Day
A satirical column imagines a boss pricing his time with a sophisticated meter. The piece mixes fiction about a paying staff encounter with TV listings and a final domestic twist as his wife cashes out the day’s time. The vignette ends with the reminder that time is money.
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New York
Boss
Internal Revenue Service
Sixth Underground Nuclear Test Highlighted by AEC
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the firing of a sixth underground nuclear test at the Nevada site. The Wednesday detonation was described as a low yield blast with an estimated strength of about 20 000 tons of TNT. The brief ABC notice provided limited details.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
ABC
World Book prize invites science history and geography questions
Fourth Grade at Watson School in St Louis earned a 20 volume World Book Encyclopedia for excellent letters and questions. Uncle Ray asks teachers to submit top five science history or geography questions for awards, noting Amundsen and Scott polar feats and a mercy mission ending in Amundsen's disappearance.
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Watson School
St. Louis
Uncle Ray
La Crosse Tribune Weekly Advertising News
The La Crosse Tribune weekly advertising feature runs every Friday in the regular Tribune edition. It invites distributors and dealers of the advertised products to align promotions with these ads.
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la Crosse Tribune
Advertising schedule for coming week listed
The December 15 1961 notice lists brands and companies scheduled to advertise in the upcoming week including Alemite Co of Wisconsin Cabin Still Century Theater Chevrolet Christian Brothers Corby’s Reserve Dubuque Packing Co Excelsior Medical Clinic Fleischmann’s Prof Gilbey’s Gin Imp Imperial Whiskey Jim Beam La Palma Cigars Miller Brewing Co Moon Faucet Old Crow Old Fitzgerald Old Thompson Plunder’s Tablets Preparation H Primatine Seagram’s 7 Crown Solo Foods Tums Walker’s De Luxe and Wall Street Journal.
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Alemite Co. of Wisconsin, Inc
Cabin Still Century Theater
Fleischmann’s Prof Gilbey’s
Gin & Voc
Imperial Whiskey
Jim Beam
la Palma Cigars
Miller Brewing Co
Moon Faucet
Old Crow
Old Fitzgerald
Old Thompson Ka
Plunder
Primatine
Seagram
Solo Foods
Walker
Wall Street Journal
Madison area firms report leadership honors and new ventures
George A. Mikelson joins the Borden Quarter Century Club after 25 years with the company in Madison. Donald Berg gains sole ownership of Berg Jewelry and Gift Shop in Black River Falls. Alvin S. Mikelson completes a management school week in Springfield. Crane & Ordway Co. becomes distributor for AQUA LECTRIC heating system. Briggs Transportation opens a new Duluth terminal. Frito Lay appoints Joseph C. Wilson as vice president and North Central Division general manager.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Donald Berg
Henry [. Berg
Berg Jewelry
Henry Berg
Crane & Ordway Co
2Nd and Division Ltd
Upper Midwest
Herman W. Lay
William B. Oliver
Frito- Lay, Inc
Joseph C. Wilson
Madison
Frito-Lay, Inc
North Central
Frito-Lay
Red Dot Foods
Frito- Lay
Regional notices from Iowa Wisconsin and Wisconsin shop openings
WAUKON Iowa open house for new Dale Robey gold medallion house December 16 17 in West Waukon. SPARTA Wisconsin two Minneapolis men acquire Super-Valu Store manage it. store remains under Super-Valu Inc. Merlin Whitehead opens western wear store on STH 27 Sparta. Taylor Wisconsin Halverson Electric and Plumbing opens with open house and free coffee. B and M Cafe owners Wickham retire January 1 to April 1. Frank Linder of Dairyland Power among 87 engineers at UW Madison conference on wooden utility poles. James Wall named La Crosse District sales manager for Mutual Service Insurance Co.
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Waukon
Iowa
Dale Robey Gold Medallion
West Waukon
Sparta
Wis
Minneapolis
Wayne S. Cable
Gene V. Stowell
Super-Valu
S. Water Street
National Food
Cable
Stowell
Super-Valu, Inc
Taylor
Halverson Electric and Plumbing Shop
Madison
Frank Linder
Dairyland Power Cooperative
la Crosse
University of Wisconsin
Engineering Institutes of UW Extension
Prudential Wall Opens New Southern Minnesota Agency in La Crosse
Special agent for Prudential Wall visits La Crosse from Minneapolis to inaugurate the new Southern Minnesota agency office in La Crosse. The event includes an all day open house and luncheon with Prudential staff. The agency covers 25 Wisconsin and Minnesota counties from La Crosse to Fairmont and oversees 21 Mutual Service agents in a nine county area.
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Sota
Rochester
Minn
Prudential
Wisconsin
Minnesota
la Crosse
Fairmont
Knute Rockne Guided Notre Dame To Five Perfect Seasons
Notre Dame football under coach Knute Rockne achieved five perfect seasons, establishing the program’s dominance and cementing Rockne’s legacy as a transformative leader in early college football.
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Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
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Bud) Wickham
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