Voice of Broadway finds stars in stories behind fame
Leonard Silman recalls three decades in theatre and mentors who helped launch talent such as Eve Arden and Tyrone Power. He shares the origin of Low And Behold and the New Faces search, noting how actors like Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart entered his world through chance encounters and a guiding hand.
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Hollywood
Hal
June
Hea
Kay “Thompson
Jock
Lwe
Los Angeles
Tyrone
Henry Fonda
Fonda
Danky Lad
Jimmy Stewart
Satchmo Leaves Rome After Pneumonia Strikes
Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo departed Rome by air after contracting pneumonia while attending the Spoleto music festival. His condition was described as grave for several days though he expected to be home for July 4, his birthday.
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Rome
API
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Italy
Spoleto
Une 16
Senate Group Okays New Atomic Carrier
Senate subcommittee approved 900 million dollars in defense funding raising the Navy's plan for a second nuclear powered aircraft carrier and boosting ground sea and air forces plus the long range missile program. The total military spending for the new fiscal year reached about 4014 billion dollars, exceeding President Eisenhower's request.
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Washington
API
Senate
House
Navy
Dennis Chavez
D-Nm
Appropriations
Eisenhower
Oklahoma Maid Of Cotton Gets Japan Honors
Miss Malinda Berry from Stillwater Oklahoma and Miss Yoshiko Hitose of Tokyo, both titled Maids of Cotton for 1939, attended a welcome party in Tokyo at the Imperial Hotel with U S and Japanese officials stressing closer US Japan trade ties. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II spoke on interdependence in trade between the two nations.
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Oklahoma Maid of Cotton
Japan
Tokyo
UPN
Malinda Berry
Stillwater
Okla
Yoshiko Hitose
Misa Barty
America
Hirose
U.S
Douglas Mac
Arthur II
Imperial Hotel
Miss Berry
Collections Set Record at Port of Houston in 1958 Totals
Collections for the Port of Houston reached a new high in the 1958-09 fiscal year with 25,171,964. For June the deputy customs collector C. M. Maier reported 2,807,849 in collections.
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N Houston
API
Port of Houston
C. M. Maier
Maier
Mass Production of Red Airliner Planned
Soviet design chief Andrei Tupolev announced that a huge turbine driven airliner is ready for serial production. He described the TAM aft as the world largest fastest and most economical airliner and said sales would be in wholesale lots to other nations though he did not name a price.
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New York
Andrei N. Tupolev
Thvarold
Vikings' bia bean triumph unclear title due to garbled input
Unable to extract a coherent event from the provided OCR fragment. The text appears corrupted and does not provide readable names, places, dates, or outcomes to summarize reliably.
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Kathy O'Donnell
William Ching
John Qualen
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Melones
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