Operation Alert deemed productive despite remaining work
Federal officials described Operation Alert as productive after a six day exercise spanning defensive measures and evacuation planning. Civil defense leaders urged fuller staffing and expanded relocation site readiness to cope with a possible nuclear attack on the United States and industrial centers as Canada joined in the joint drill.
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Washington
Genwnan
Peterson
United States
Fuerto Ricol
House
Gov‘o
Hawaii
Canada
Tee
Val Peterson
Eisenhower
Arthur
Fleming
American Magazine Ends Its Run After Eight Decades
Washington and New York press reports state the American Magazine will cease publication with its August issue after 80 years, as Collier’s and Woman’s Home Companion continue. The publisher Crowell-Collier announced the magazine could not be sustained financially. A 12 member committee will study improvements in highway transportation linking the three titles.
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New York
Baste Eds
Washington
Collier's
Woman's Home Companion
Crowell-Collier
Alaska
United States
Air Force jet crashes into New Castle building. two injured
A training Air Force jet struck a building housing a grocery and apartments in New Castle Pennsylvania injuring two crewmen who parachuted to a field nearby. The single story complex housed Mrs Sylvester Bockum who was hospitalized for shock. others treated included Mrs Allen Shotzbarger and six neighbors. Fire crew arrived with ten pieces, fire under control in hours. Crews, Lt W K Ryan and Lt G E McCleod, were en route from Stewart AFB Newburgh NY to Chanute Field when engine trouble and fuel loss forced the crash. craft based Perrin AFB Texas.
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Air Force
Associated Press
New Castle
Allen Shotzbarger
W. K. Ryan
G. E. McCleod
Stewart Afb
Newburgh
N.Y
Chanute’ Field
Perrin Afb
Texas
Ryan
MacCleod
Greater
Pittsburgh
GREAT MAN OR IMPOSTER CHICAGO CELEBRATING SHAW CENTENARY
Chicago marks the 100th birth anniversary of George Bernard Shaw with a symposium Many Sides of Shaw and a Chicago pride program led by the Adult Education Council The event features writers and scholars debating whether Shaw was a great Irishman or an imposter while Chicago notes Shaw’s American debuts and contributions to U S theater including Candida and You Never Can Tell
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Chicago
Dublin
Shaw
George Because Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Patrick Giles
Wbho
William Saroyan
Norman Thomas
A. C. Spectorsky
Archibald Hendersons
The
Adult Education Council of Chicago
Arlington Park Race Track
Adult Education Council
America
Cansaz
Cleopatra
Studebaker Theater
Geologist Drowns in Alaskan Lake
PaAllbanks Alaska reports Yale geologist Donald George MacVicar Jr drowned near Chandler Lake in the Brooks Range. He was with an unidentified companion when their canvas table overturned in the lake. The 280 mile distance from PaAllbanks is noted.
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Paallbanks
Alaska
Donald George MacVicar Jr
Yale
Chandler Lake
Brooks
MacVicar
Here
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Bill Old
Uigmngs
McKettrick
Jerry Gilden
Kay Windsor
McKettricks
Dacron
Vy Oy Price
Sizas
Sylvester Bockum
Pennsylvania
Onest
Sean Dunne
Labor
National Gallery
Sherman Hotel
Tye
Arthur Murray
Dauce
Verne H. Coover
Talisman Street
Torrance
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East
Fifth Street
Long Beach
Long Beach Blvd
Compton
Columbia
NAVY
Columbia Lakewood
GROUP
Ata Une Value
Lakewood Center
Uty
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