Rita Hayworth passes on Lona Hanson role over wardrobe demand
Hollywood notes report Rita Hayworth rejected a script because the Lona Hanson part required much blue jeans and cowboy shirt clothing. The item also mentions NBC executives reacting to Ed Gardner jokes and various industry updates about Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Hal Wallis Dinah Shore Joan Crawford and Laurence Olivier.
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Radio Spotlight Highlights Perry Como and Berlin Broadcasts
Perry Como tops critics as a leading radio quoter with a high success rate on the 6 PM WKBH NBC Supper Club. News of the World reports Bob Hope in Berlin during Christmas as NBC airs a recorded show from occupied Germany and the Berlin airlift era. Horace Heidt plans weekly group appearances as his show shifts to 6 PM next Sunday.
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Evening Programs on Tuesday December 28, 1948
The page lists Barry Risers News and Farm News Parm Service as morning devotions and evening programming for Tuesday December 28 1948. It notes local programming blocks and announces service schedules for the community.
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Ceerna¢ame and W Zieverth Preendiy Time News Preview
Ceerna¢ame and W Zieverth present a weekend time news preview from Classecs, highlighting upcoming events and game highlights. The feature notes standings, notable performances, and key matchups across leagues.
Warren Hendry Atherton Birth Memorial and Legion Leader
Warren Hendry Atherton born December 28, 1891 in San Francisco rose from a railway brotherhood member to studying law by correspondence. He served as a captain in France during World War I and later became a civic leader in Stockton California and national commander of the American Legion in 1943.
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Possible Halt To Accident Toll Rise In 1948
Metropolitan Life Insurance officials say a three year rise in accidental deaths in the United States may have ended in 1948. They estimate 989000 deaths from accidents that year, versus 98600 in 1947. Over one million war damaged buildings in France have been reconstructed since the war.
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Egg Sucked Into Bottle Demonstrates Air Pressure
In a science note, a milk bottle experiment shows heated air expands then cools creating a vacuum that pulls a hard boiled egg inside. Fire, egg, and a paper handkerchief illustrate pressure change, while the egg is later retrieved and eaten.
Uncle Ray offers free leaflet on five South American republics
In response to reader requests, Uncle Ray has prepared a new leaflet titled Five South American Republics. He will send it free of charge to readers who provide a stamped envelope with their name and full address, mailing it to Uncle Ray in care of the newspaper.
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Oil stocks rise in December reports by Bureau of Mines
Washington reports the Bureau of Mines shows domestic and foreign crude petroleum stocks at 299,435,000 barrels as of December 18. Average daily runs were 5,695,000 barrels, up 45,000 from before. The text then oddly shifts to a definition of the word robot from Czech origins.
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Announcer Assignments for New Year's Bowl Games
NBC assigns Ted Husing to the Gator bowl in Jacksonville and Bill Stern to the Harbor bowl in San Diego. Red Barber returns to CBS for the Ora bowl, with Mel Allen handling the Rose Bowl relay from Pasadena. Bowl preview coverage runs tonight and Wednesday with Barber and Allen in preview interviews for Orange and Rose.
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Payrolls and employment hit peacetime Michigan record in 1948
Detroit report shows payrolls and employment covered by the Michigan unemployment compensation commission reaching a peacetime peak for 1948. The reserve unemployment benefit fund rose to near 293 million dollars, surpassing the 1945 war peak by 18 million.
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Catholic Economic Group Elects President
The Rev. Leo C. Brown of St. Louis university was elected president of the Catholic Economic association at its national convention in Cleveland. He serves as national director of the Institute of Social Order, with the meeting linked to winter sessions of the American Economic association the American Statistical association and the American Marketing association.
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