Wyman and Olivier Crowned At 21st Academy Awards
Jane Wyman won best actress for Johnny Belinda and Laurence Olivier took best actor for Hamlet at the 21st Academy Awards. Olivier also directed and starred in Hamlet, the year’s top film, as stars toasted with the crowd of Hollywood royalty.
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Jane Wyman
Missouri
Sir Laurence Olivier
Sir Laurencel
Hamlet
Miss Wyman
Oscar
Lew Ayres
Walter Huston
Loretta Young
Jerry Wald
Johnny Belinda
Sir Laurence
London
Academy
Olivier
Huston
Sierra Maore
Claire Trevor
Lady Tippler
Key Largo
John Huston
Papa Huston
Sierra Madre
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Hollywood
Trevor
Warner Brothers
Irving Thalberg
Adolph Zukor
Paramount Studios
Walter Wanger
Tvan Jandl
Robert Montgomery
Jetter
William Daniels
William Skall
Winton Hach
Joseph Valentine
Joan of Arc
Jay Livingston
Ray Evans
Johnny Green
Roger Edens
Brian Easdale
Dorothy Tenis
Karinska
Roger Furse
Hamiet
Olivier Gives Film Honors to Associates
London reports Laurence Olivier says his five Hollywood awards for Hamlet belong to his associates, not himself. He praises their generosity and notes the British film industry faces an economic crisis as seven of 26 studios have closed recently. Roger Furse calls the awards a boost for the industry amid hardship. Olivier, busy in London, is recovering from flu.
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London
Laurence Olivier
Olivier
Hollywood
Roger Furse
Costs of Living Reported Slipping to Level of 1948
Washington March 25 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 1.1 percent drop in the consumer price index from Jan 15 to Feb 15 bringing the cost of living within 0.9 percent of a year ago marking one of the sharpest monthly declines since the war Food prices fell 0.5 percent while oils dairy and fats hit lows. Wearing apparel and house furnishings declined as automobile prices rose slightly and residential rents edged up 0.2 percent for the period ending Feb 15
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Bureau of Labor Statistics l
Bureau
Who Mailed Coal-tie-up Releases
PITTSBURGH March 25 The end of the two week coal walkout turned cloak and dagger as plain white envelopes bearing Pittsburgh postmarks carried news that John L Lewis ordered miners back to work next Monday. The letters were sent to three news services in Pittsburgh and nowhere else, with UMW officials at a loss to explain involvement. A note on the letter read not for public use but for members only, suggesting the mailing may have been unintended.
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Pittsburgh
John L .Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Studio Highlights Include Jennie, The Search and The Secret Land
The program presents Special effects for Portrait of Jennie and The Search by Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler, a foreign language film Mon sieur Vincent, a full length Navy documentary The Secret Land, plus Army short Toward Independence.
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Jennie
Richard Schweizer
David Wechsler
Monsieur Vincent
Navy
Army
Death threat letters target Congresswoman Edith Rogers
Guards protect Massachusetts Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers after she reports receiving death threats dating from Valentine’s Day. Authorities investigate while a high profile divorce case against Capt. Harold Latta-Lawrence advances with process service and statements denying both claims.
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Ashington
Edith Nourse Rogers
Navy
Harold A. Latte-Lawrence
Snowy weather sweeps wide area across north central states
Snow and windstorms move from Roctkles into the Dakotas, northwestern Nebraska and northern Minnesota. Eight inches in Sidney Nebraska and four in Valentine. Winds 30 to 40 mph in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Temperatures near freezing in the snow belt. Showers and thunderstorms hit the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and upper Great Lakes. Memphis reports 1.38 inches of rain. warmth persists in the south and mid Atlantic. Maine the coolest in the 20s. Tampa reaches 91 yesterday.
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Dakotas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Sidney
Neb
Valentine
North Dakota
Mississippi
Ohio River Valley
Great Lakes
Memphis
Tenn
Middle Atlantic
California
Maine
Mercury
Tampa
Fla
Child Gets Last Wish Before Death in Georgia
Annie Rose Robinson, a dying leukemia patient aged about 12, died after friends granted her last wish for cotton candy. Georgia residents sent gifts and money to fund the treat, with schoolmates contributing funds used to buy the candy and a bedside plant adorned with $100 in cash and checks.
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Columbus
Annie Rose Robinson
Georgia
Albuquerque Traffic Survey A First Of Its Kind
In Albuquerque New Mexico a 60000 dollar traffic survey will be the nation’s first to use a complete coordinated study at once. D Grant Mickle of the Automotive Safety Foundation notes other cities used parts of the approach but none undertook the full program simultaneously. Four agencies informal agree to the contract pending formal approvals by the city commission the state highway commission the foundation and the Public Roads Administration.
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Albuquerque
N. M
D. Grant Mickle
Automotive Safety Foundation
Washington, D. C
City Commission
State Highway Commission
The
Public Roads Administration
Mules Discarded as New Orleans Motorizes Trash
NEW ORLEANS March 25 The city will motorize garbage collection starting April 5 eliminating 141 mules and 110 workers from their jobs. Mayor De Lesseps Morrison announced the plan, signaling a shift from animal to mechanized pickup in the capital of Mardi Gras.
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New Orleans
Mardi Gras
Old Maud
de Lesseps Morrison
Blind Woman Gets Aid Loses Cash in Street Theft
Chicago report details how Elizabeth Zinnerlin, 52, using a white cane at Halsted Street and Claybourn Avenue, accepted help from a man who crossed with her. On reaching the far curb he allegedly snatched her purse containing 37 dollars and a special watch.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Zinnerlin
Halsted St
Claybourn Ave
Long-delayed Caller Pleads Innocence in Queens Case
William Lackie a 42 year old plumber from Athens N Y arrived three days late for a court date after walking 30 miles and hitchhiking 50 miles due to no train fare He told Judge Peter Farrell he would be ready for trial later on a larceny charge involving 118 dollars from a tavern and facing a separate charge of stealing a 1000 bond may be kept only if the judge accepts his travel explanation
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New York
William Lackie
Athens
Queens
Peter Farrell
Lackie
Europe
Mother of Quads Now Hes Twins
PORTLAND ORE March 25 Mrs Lucea Tigner mother of quadruplets yesterday gave birth to twins She now has nine children
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Portland
Ore
Lucea Tigner
Tension in Coal Fields Off Crews Return Monday
Pittsburgh March 25 tension eased as John J. Lewis ordered miners to resume work Monday ending a two week stoppage of 463000 United Mine Workers in pits east of the Mississippi. Railroads Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio announced furloughed workers would return by April 2 and April 4 respectively. The miners welcomed the resumption of work in the coal fields.
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Pittsburgh
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Mississippi
LU. S Senate
James Boyd
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Lewis
Boyd
Chesapeake & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Red Switch in Struggle in U. S. Told
A government witness at the Communist conspiracy trial identified Gerhardt Eisler as the U. S. representative of the International and said Eisler used the alias Hans Burger. The testimony ties Eisler to pressuring the American party toward violent class warfare and cites changes approved by Burger for Browderism and postwar policy shifts.
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New York
Communist Internationale
Gerhardt Eisler
The
Internationale
U. S
America
Louis F. Budenz
Communist Party
Eisler
Hans, Burger
Harold R. Medina
Eugene Dennis
Hans Burger
United States
Budenz
Jacob Stachel
Communist Party In
Burger
Stachel
First Cavalry Division Becomes Triangular Unit
TOKYO March 25 The proud old First Cavalry Division shifted to a triangular organization mirroring other U S Army divisions. The four regiments of the square division were streamlined to three regiments, and terms like troop and platoon were dropped as the unit adopted the postwar standard.
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Tokyo
First Cavalry Division
U. S
United States
First Cavalry
Truman May Invite Lawgivers to Party
President Truman plans an informal White House gathering for new House and Senate members to foster near-term cooperation. Among details, a springtime April talks schedule shifted and a club or hotel venue is likely due to White House repairs.
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Truman
House
Senate
Congress
White House
New York
United Nations
Chaim Weizmann
Tarael
Florida
Sen. Lucas
Illinois
Barkley
O‘fruman
Youth Questioned Further in Girl 2 Murder Inquiry
Milwaukee police planned more questioning of Milton Babich 19 as they pursued clues in the murder of Patricia Birmingham 16. Babich is brother-in-law to Patricia and was detained overnight while his wife Kathleen 17 was sent home. Investigators returned developers from Minneapolis after a fundraiser search and said the couple had no new clues. Patricia disappeared February 10 from West Allis High School area. her body with a concrete weight was found with a bullet wound.
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Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Babich
Patricia
Kathleen
de Elopers
Mwaukee
Minneapolis
Midwest
West Allis High School
Rankin Introduces Bill to Pension War I Vets
Rep Rankin of Mississippi introduced a new World War I veterans pension bill seeking 72 dollars a month at age 65 for those with income limits. The measure, drafted after yesterday's failed World Wars I and II pension bill, aims to speed relief by routing to veterans committee for quick reporting.
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Washington
D.miss
House
Veterans’ Organizations
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Veterans') Committee
Veterans’ Committee
Congress
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