Truman spends Christmas Day at White House amid budget work
President Truman split Christmas Day between family observance and pressing budget matters. He relaxed after distributing gifts with Mrs. Truman and Margaret, then planned to draft the state of the union and budget messages for Congress return on Jan 8. Weather and icy sidewalks hinder outside activities, while steel strike developments remain pending with a Jan 1 deadline and wage talks ongoing.
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Moravians Christmas City Aflame with 50 000 Lamps
Bethlehem Pennsylvania shines as Moravian Christmas City with 50 000 lamps lighting windows at Moravian College and homes. A 3000 bulb star tops the hill and seven miles of streets glow as Central Moravian Church holds vigil and churches plan midnight services.
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Christmas road dangers ease slow across Lawrence
Bells rang at police and sheriff offices as roads remained icy and hazardous for Yuletide travel. State and county crews cleared perilous stretches while many chose to stay home. Downtown Lawrence was quiet. buses lagged but recovered. Parcel post delivery aimed by noon. 13 prisoners fed a Christmas menu at the Douglas County Jail. Hospitals prepared holiday meals for patients.
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Villains Hoppy Handles But Taxes Are Too Stiff
Hollywood reports Hopalong Cassidy creator William Boyd plans to sell his enterprises due to heavy taxes and expenses. The deal centers on Bil's portrayal of Hoppy with an asking price near 8 million dollars. NBC negotiates to take over the enterprise as Boyd’s manager notes after expenses and taxes the net is small.
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Police Bullets Kill Youth Who Resisted Arrest
Kansan City reports William Devere Yewell, 22, shot dead by three detectives after allegedly firing five shots when they moved to arrest him over a patrolman slaying. The confrontation happened inside a house where detectives waited for Yewell to return. Earlier, Perry Nelson Smith, 21, admitted in a sworn statement that he shot Patrolman Clyde William Harrison while Smith and Yewell were in a stolen car, with Yewell not taking part in that shooting.
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King George VIThankful after surgery on lung
London December 25 King George VI expressed deep thankfulness to God and his medical team after surgery last September 23 to remove part of a lung. In a Christmas Day radio address he said he had come through illness by God’s grace and the skilled care of doctors and nurses. Separately New York reports 800 to 1,000 taxi drivers left the city’s fleet seeking defense jobs, idling about ten percent of cabs.
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First Opera Written For TV Premiered By NBC
New York December 25 The tender story of a crippled boy and his love for the infant Jesus is told in Amah and the Night Visitors a new opera written for television and premiered by NBC Gian Carlo Menotti wrote and directed the piece stars 12 year old Chet Allen and 21 year old Thomas Schippers Allen who lives with parents in Columbus sang the boy’s soprano role Schippers born in Kalamazoo Michigan conducted Menotti says the work is inspired by Hieronymus Bosch The Adoration of the Magi a 15th century Flemish painting
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