Television like income tax and sex stay in America
HAL BOYLE recalls a friend who bought a television set and faces endless social cost. Neighbors invade the home, drinks and snacks are on the bill, and the pioneer endures social upheaval while TV grows from the old crystal set and radio into a new cultural force. Time magazine pegged early adoption at about one in ten households.
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City Man Faces Multiple Federal Charges This Summer
Alphonso Amabile, 30, of Chicago, has a busy summer ahead in federal court. He is slated to appear June 15 on a charge involving 8,000 ration books, June 23 on a counterfeit 20 bill case, and June 16 on another count of passing counterfeit currency. Additional hearings are planned on a conspiracy tied to a car purchase using bogus bills and on probation revocation for possession of counterfeit sugar stamps.
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Television’s Rise Prompts Debate on Home Life and Society
A column weighs television as a lasting cultural force transforming home life and social interaction. It notes benefits from sermons and sports with risk to conversation, public spaces, and traditional routines, while predicting growing adoption across venues and decades. Ben Turpin and Mabel Normand are cited as having a notable future in TV.
GE Engineer Designs Baby Cry Alert Lamp
An electronic device by GE engineer Jack Najork warns parents when a baby cries at night. The crib unit detects cries and makes a lamp flash at the parents’ bed, usable up to 100 feet away and adjustable for different child cries.
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Wake Up Radio Schedule and Morning Music Segments
Program highlights list shows early morning lineup with Farm News Weather Bandstand and various musical features. Entries include Morning Devotions Musical Clock Val's Radio Players and a sequence of orchestral and dance band blocks with News Interludes and the Lone Ranger segment.
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Wisconsin class of 1898 to receive golden jubilee certificates
One of 102 living members of the University of Wisconsin class of 1898, Harry Spence among them, will be honored with golden jubilee certificates for 50 years of loyalty. The Half Century Club lunch on June 18 kicks off the university commencement weekend, with recipients living in 15 states plus Germany and Mexico.
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Veterans Affairs Office to Close for Memorial Day
Leslie V. Dix announced the La Crosse Veterans Administration office at 408 South Fourth Street will be closed all day Monday May 31 1948 for Memorial Day and will reopen Tuesday.
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Radio Spotlight Brings Memorial Day Salute and Arts News
The 1948 program on WKBH at 3 35 pm features a Memorial Day salute to the Freedom Train in a drama titled Freedom Is a Homemade Thing. Frank Sinatra tops pop charts and may conduct the Buffalo Symphony with Lauritz Melchior. Roy Fisher of Nathalie Virginia wins Best Teacher on Quiz Kids with 2500 prize. Summer Theater debut with Pat O’Brien Virginia Bruce at 6 39 pm. Horace Heidt starts quarter finals of network talent search on WKBH NBC.
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Hollywood Hosts Near Oscar Packed Screenings At The Hollywood
The Twentieth Century Fox set shows nearly a dozen Oscar winners on screen in Darry F Zanuck film Gentlemens Agreement at the Hollywood theater. Gregory Peck Jothy McGuire John Garfield Anne Revere Jane Wyatt headline the cast with past nominees. Ray Milland stars in The Big Clock arriving Thursday, a suspenseful Paramount screen adaptation of Kenneth Fearing novel about murder and a killer on the run.
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New Philosophies Labeled as Modern Ideas
Julien Benda, French writer philosopher, calls the so called new philosophies merely modernizations of ancient ideas and notes the distinction lies in superficial changes rather than fundamental shifts.
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Population Strip Along the U S Canada Border
Three quarters of Canada's population lives in a 200 mile wide strip along the U S border. The area stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific with dense urban centers in the corridor.
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