Lawrence Daily Journal World masthead and details
The entry lists the Lawrence Daily Journal World staff roles led by Editor W. C. Simons with associate and advertising staff. It provides the newspaper's address at Sixth and New Hampshire Streets, Lawrence Kansas, contact number VEG-1000 and subscription rates for local carriers, Douglas and nearby counties, and nationwide mail. It notes entry as Second Class Postal Matter and AP association with Saturday Evening Jan. 2, 1960.
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Psig
Those Poor Gals End of Grid Season Brings Little Relief
The piece notes football widows rejoicing at the season’s end but warns that more sports remain. Pro Bowl on Jan 17, weekend college and pro basketball, a planned Sunday sports spectacular, plus baseball telecasts will continue.
Colleges woo top students amid new recruiting wave
The Harvard Club luncheon in Airplane City hosted 10 Wichita high school seniors seen as top academic prospects. Colleges increasingly recruit scholars with inducements and stiff entrance exams rise as athletic recruiting remains fierce.
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Wichita
Harvard Club
Airplane City
Hillary to lead Nepal Snowman expedition
Sir Edmund Hillary is hired by Field Enterprises to organize a Nepal trek aimed at capturing a Snowman. The plan involves a tranquilizing “capture gun” and faces Nepal's restrictions on harming or removing a creature, with no decision yet on leaving the country with a Snowman.
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Sir Edmund Hillary
Mr. Everest
Himalayas
Field Enterprises Educational Corp. of America
Hillary
Nepal
Muth
Prices and Eggs Stir Local Shopper Debate
A Lawrence reader questions why local grocers buy out of town eggs while local producers offer fresh Grade A large eggs. They note 19 cents a dozen offered for eggs and 49 cents a dozen retail price, urging support for local farmers to keep eggs from being shipped from Kansas City.
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Lawrence
Kansas City
Duck blind built near Tulsa hides by willow camouflage
Gene Kinney and a neighbor spent a day constructing a duck blind in Tulsa using lumber and willow branches for camouflage. The following Saturday they returned to shoot and found the willow branches gone with a bull nearby chewing cud at the site.
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Tulsa
Okla
Gene Kinney
Dr Mother Answers Girls Cramp Concerns and Cataract Myth
Dear readers share medical guidance on severe menstrual cramps and emesis and on a false cataract dissolve claim. Advice urges medical evaluation, exercise benefits, and skepticism toward unproven cures while addressing a toddler’s delayed tooth development and noting advances in leukemia treatment.
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D.C
Twitching Robot Stage: Science vs Art Debate
Johns Hopkins professor George Boas argues that rapid industrialization and media advances have not diminished culture. He cites museum attendance, book publishing, and mass education as evidence of a thriving humanistic life in the United States and compares fears about radio, television, and machines to past controversies.
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Lynn Poole
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
George Boas
International Council For Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
Boas
United States
Bows
Morton V. Masters
Greece
Cereal Halts Danny Thomas Retirement Plan
Danny Thomas delays leaving his CBS show citing sponsor interests and promising to appear in more than half of the episodes for years to come. The article notes Pat Harrington Jr. joining the cast and discusses TV talent, executives, and upcoming projects including a possible NBC program Spotlight with young performers.
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Ham
Danny Thomas
Thomas
CBS
Pat Harrington Jr
Mire
Lucille Ball
Winter storms and freezes grip the Midwest
Old Home Town notes twin blows of snow and sub zero cold across the Midwest. Duke D Ambra acquires license plate number one in Douglas County. KU Medical School receives an 80760 grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Harry Darby sworn in as Kansas junior senator by Vice President Barkley. John Callahan elected president with Leon Bauman as vice president and Courtney Crim as secretary treasurer. Sheriff Dunkley reports hosting 325 prisoners in the past year. Films at local theaters include Broadway Bill Sweet Adeline Home on the Range. Theta Sigma Phi plans the fourth annual Bill Board Ball. KU basketball practice continues in Haskell gym. High school committee selects spring play and seeks Bowersock theater building. The 14th U S census taking begins today.
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Midwest
Duke D’ambra
Douglas County
KU Medical School
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Washington
Hary Darby
Barkley
Kansas
Judge Menger
Bachelor Club
John Callahan
Leon Bauman
Courtney Crim
Jack Dunkley
Dickinson
Warner Baxter
Myrna Loy
Granada
Irene Dunne
Varsity
Jackie Coogan
Randolph Scott
Theta Sigma Phi
Haskell
Jeanette Wagstaff
John Selig
Stanley Learned
Dorothy Beckman
Bowersock Theater
Today’s Bible Message and Prayer Reflections
A devotional note centers on walking in truth from 3 John 1 4 and a prayer asking for complete dependence on God. It asks believers to live gratefully and stay connected with Thee and Jesus Christ, ending with Amen.
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Jesus Christ
Gish Sisters Hide Pekinese Rover as Cat for Syria
Lillian Gish revealed she and Dorothy smuggled their Pekinese Rover into Syria by disguising him as a cat. Director Edmund Goulding, a WWI veteran, championed a pro-British letters campaign for American troops. He also fostered a song career with Maḿselle.
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Gish
Doggie
Syria
Cat
Lillian Gish
The
Four Seasons
Dorothy
Rover
Lillian
Edmund Goulding
Hollywood
England
Brita
Goulding
Coldstream Guards
Liverpool
New City Library Books A Diverse 1959 List
A catalog of new titles includes Adventure Is Underground by William R Halliday about West cave exploration, Mary Shelly by Eileen Bigland, Light of Common Day by Lady Diana Cooper, From Pagan to Christian by Lin Yutang, A Dash of Pity by Peter Ustinov, Fiction of the Fifties edited by Herbert Gold, New Face in the Mirror by Yael Dayan, and The Stranger by Burt and Budd Arthur.
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William R. Halliday
West
United States
Mary Shelly
Eileen Bigland
Mary Godwin
Percy Shelly
Diana Cooper
Lin Yutang
Nick Eggenhofer
Peter Ustinov
Herbert Gold
Mr. Gold
Yael Dayan
Israel
THE
Stranger
Burt and
Budd Arthur
Best Sellers List Highlights Classics and New Works
The current best sellers include fiction titles Advise and Consent by Drury Hawaii Michener Poor No More by Ruark The War Lover by Hersey Exodus by Uris and non fiction works Act One by Hart Folk Medicine by Jarvis This Is My God by Work For 3e Plain by Golden The Status Seeker by Packard.
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Drury
Hawaii
Michener
Poor NO More
Ruark
Hersey
Exodus
Uris
Hart
Jarvis
God
Golden
Packard
New Books Highlight Western History and Mystery Thrillers
A catalog of 1959 titles spans The Indian Tipi by Reginald and Gladys Laubin with Vestal input on tipi history. The Great Buffalo Hunt by Wayne Gard recounts hunts and protests from 1871 to 1883. The Best of the American Cowboy edited by Ramon F. Adams. The World That Couldn’t Be edited by H L Gold. Confetti for Gino by Lorenzo Madalena. Murder Is Suggested by Francis and Richard Lockridge. The Man Who Followed Women by Bert and Delores Hitchens.
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Reginald and Gladys Laubin
Stanley Vestal
Wayne Gard
Congress
Ramon F. Adams
H L. Gold
Gino
Lorenzo Madalena
San Diego
Francis
Richard Lockridge
Mrs. North
Bert and
Delores Hitchens
California
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