Parlor prize mania in Manhattan living rooms
HAL BOYLE notes New York social page satire on a firm naming ten best dressed living rooms and valuing furnishings at up to 500000. Winners include Mrs John Reed Top finn at 960 Fifth Ave and Elizabeth Arden at 550 Park Ave, with others on Park Avenue and the Upper East Side. The piece imagines a house’s reaction to losing and the cost of keeping up appearances.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Manhattan
Social Register
Altho
Fifth Avenue
John Reed Topfinn
Elizabeth Arden
Park Avenue
Danny Kaye
East 60Th Street
Deems Taylor
Mary Roberta Rinehart
Upper East Side
Central Park West
Ethel Merman
East 20Th Street
Scientist Hints Hydrogen Bomb Work Underway
Oak Ridge Tenn Feb highly placed studies drop hint that hydrogen bomb research already underway. Dr A M Weinberg director of research said the hydrogen bomb would differ from earlier atomic weapons and that Oak Ridge is prepared to assist if called upon.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
A. M. Weinberg
Oak Bodze
Ces
Americs
Ori
At J
Offic Atomic
Weinbers
Ax Murderer May Be Released on Probation
Philadelphia February 2 A man convicted of second degree murder in the ax slaying of his sweetheart 29 years ago is likely to be released on probation Judge Raymond MacNeillie ordered Eugenio Zinnarti 58. He pleaded guilty to the slaying of 15 year old Mary Nicastro after a prior insanity finding and a mental hospital stay. He shot himself after fleeing. Zinnart had been declared insane by a special jury and confined at Farview State Hospital.
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Philadelphia
Gpi
Common Pleas
Raymond MacNeillie
Eugenio Zinnari
Zinnart
MacNeille
Mary Nicastro
Farview
Redmond to be Initiated by Kansas Sigma Delta Chi
John Redmond veteran Kansas newspaperman will be initiated into professional membership by the University of Kansan chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. He has spent a half century in publishing and is editor of the Daily Republican at Burlington. Kansas City's Wellington will speak at the banquet after the initiation in the English room of the Memorial Union.
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John Redmond
Kansas
University of Kansan
Sigma Delta Chi
Redmond
Daily Republican
Burlington
Cog
Wellington
Kansas City Star
Kansas City
Meniurial Union
Trunan Signs Long Term RCA Victor Contract
Margaret Trunan signed a long term contract with RCA Victor Red Seal to make recordings after finishing a concert tour. Frank M. Folson, RCA president, announced the deal yesterday.
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New York
Margaret Trunan
RCA Victor
Red Seal Records
Frank M. Folson
Radio Corporation of America
Miss Truman
War buddy disputes dying veteran confession claim
Atlanta veteran Carl Rackley says he never heard Andrew Blasko confess that Sgt Lemons flogged prisoners or stole a jeep load of cognac. Rackley, a 13th man captured near Brest in 1944, recalls Blasko insisting Lemons was not captured and that the alleged confessions were false. Blasko later killed himself after dictating the false statements.
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Atlanta
Norfolk
Carl R. Rackley
Andrew Louis Blasko
Jack Lemons
Blasko
Danville
John Tete
Bee
Lemons
Blabko
Rackley
Piedmont
Brest
France
Roer River
Germany
von Lemons
AFL Leader Seeks Taft Hartley Repeal Amid Labor Control Critique
Miami Beach, Feb 20. AFL President William Green warned that continued U. S. labor controls restrain business and invite communism. He urged repeal of Taft Hartley as AFL leaders plan to shift Congress this fall to undo the law, with political groups backing education and farm allies opposing Taft Hartley.
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Miami Beach
Fla
AFA
William Green
Green
AFL
Congress
A.F.L
Leagues For Political Education
Miami Rotary Club
Worden United Brethren Evangelical Church Anniversary
Worden United Brethren Evangelical Church holds annual anniversary services Sunday at the Worden church. Bishop C. H. Stauffacher of Kansas City will speak at morning and afternoon services. A basket dinner will be served at noon.
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Worden United Brethren Evangelical Church
C. H. Stauffacher
Kansas City
Flying Boxcar Belly Landing at Selfridge Field
A C-82 transport known as the Flying Boxcar belly landed at Selfridge Field in Clemens Michigan on the previous day. All five men aboard escaped injury as the aircraft scraped its bottom and landing gear failed. The pilot had controlled the descent for two hours before impact. A Social Security representative will visit the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow to assist anyone with security concerns.
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Me. Clemens
Mich
Mak Uging
Selfridge Field
Viester
Yukon
Odie
Seecurity Administration
Chamber of Commerce
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Uncle Ben
Swift
Jean
Swift Premium Beef and Lamb Delivery Service
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