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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1948
Page
11
Crossword style clues naming a Lasker award winner and multiple word hints across horizontal entries. Includes clues for persons, objects, and verbs with varying difficulty and cross references for a puzzle page segment.
A jumble of numbers and phrases appears on a puzzle page listing clues such as a war god a mindanao reference and various definitions. The exact mapping of terms to solutions remains unclear but hints at a thematic word grid with numbers 29 48 42 43 and 51 among others.
In a closing-out sale a western storekeeper finds his remaining stock reduced to two left teft shoes. The remark notes the sale’s target as a third party radical standing on his principles, as reported by the Omaha World-Herald.
An Indiana farmer notes rising food costs while planning a Sunday meal for 21 known city relatives and three uncertain guests, highlighting broad concerns about prices and household budgeting as a communal gathering looms.
A Q and A excerpt discusses Barter Theater in Abingdon Virginia as a barter system theater founded by Robert Porterfield in 1933. It notes it became Virginia’s State Theater in 1946 and claims it is a major traveling repertory company outside New York. It defines silicones on thin paper sheets used to clean eyeglasses as protective lens coatings developed around World War II. It explains Bikini Atoll’s 1945 atomic test was named Operation Crossroads, a term chosen by Vice Admiral Blames due to a turning point for warfare and civilization.
Senator Soaper cites libel laws while noting rumors about a Democratic Vice Presidential possibility and recalls a summer headline about weather. The column jokes on television timing, evolving tech like Bell Labs radio with no tubes, Tass analyses, and a punny cafe petition about coffee drinking reflecting social mood.
A bridge column notes how Jon Sanford of a Fifth Avenue haberdashery is popular with tournament players. He defends a seven no trump as the last hand of the game and explains his thought process on a sequence of spade and heart plays yielding the 13th trick.
Broadcast guide mentions RUFC Susie RECA Church GHI RYOE Bibie Class and KFWB concert at LAL NOR venue. IRB listings show repeated references to church activities and radio segments on 3000 eS in Los Angeles area.
The Oakland Tribune notes nations show much pleasure in mutual hostility but questions whether the emotional cost and consequences justify the enjoyment. The piece argues international hatred yields no real payoff and invites reflection on responsible global conduct.
A 15 cent booklet offer cites a psychology piece on burglars and a quiz on women’s changing roles. It discusses memory tips, a note on leaving shades, and the idea of new freedom for women. It promotes two pamphlets by Henry Link and Albert Edward Wizgam with self-addressed envelopes.
The last steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady moved to Cleveland as the firm shifts entirely to Diesel electric production. A century since Schenectady’s first steam engine, the era ends amid admiration from longtime employees. Diesel demand now dominates, with 90 percent of current orders. Some steam equipment will remain for rare future needs.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on two main schools of thought to standardize American divorce laws. A federal code could unify, but regional mores pose clashes. The Court seeks to balance rights of parties and children while avoiding invalidating valid divorces or preventing remarriage across states.
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