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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1953
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription pricing for per copy, city carrier, and mail delivery options with and without the Sunday News Journal. It also includes a Bible verse and publishing address.
Mrs. Luce presents credentials as U S ambassador to Italy today becoming the first woman to hold the post in Rome among a line of notable predecessors. The article notes her eminent career in politics drama and essays and recalls prior diplomats in Rome from 1870s to 1940s.
United Steel Workers policy group closes a two day session in Atlantic City and is expected to announce wage demand increases. Previous proposals included a guaranteed annual wage and 30 hours weekly pay for a year with a 52 week cap, plus a union shop and general wage rise. The strike era showed dependency on price controls, now ended, shaping the bargaining outlook.
Analyzes the Viet Minh advance from northern Viet Nam into Laos and the strategic menace to Southeast Asia. Warns that a successful rebel drive could threaten Thailand Burma and Cambodia and risk a French collapse, with wider Cold War implications.
A gag panel recounts Joe McFarle and his wife seeking a sitter for Junior. The agency demands absurd preconditions, from bank letters to a psychiatrist’s opinion, co-sitters, and even a liability to hire the couple as sitters themselves, with a final punchline about criminal mischief.
David Lawrence argues Moscow uses speeches and press replies to manipulate the free world, pressing for peace talks while its armies cross Laos borders. He cites British diplomacy, NATO dynamics, and private remarks by Montgomery and Dewey Short to suggest London favors peace terms and a European defense shift.
Erich Brandies recalls Monsignor Carroll Abbing visiting Santa Marinella to aid war orphans. In San Francisco a fire in Chinatown drew eight reporters away from the interview, illustrating how good intentions are often derailed by immediate temptations like sales and events. The anecdote ends with a quip about cops and speeding.
The reading urges sticking to familiar routines and delaying new programs and big changes while urging patience as current dullness fades. It notes a forthcoming shift to optimism, with finances improving in the year's latter half and past frustrations easing after a period of thwarted ideas.
A potpourri of 1950s Washington items including Mrs. Lewis E. Wood of Alexandria visiting a home show prize, air force promotions from major to lieutenant colonel across commands, Kefauver’s six hour speech against tidelands bill, a Shoes change episode with Knowland, commentary on the Federal Register oranges definition, a quip about nav el oranges and the 38th Parallel, a National Geographic reminiscence about King George III’s crown diamond, and Rep Otto Krueger promoting North Dakota with a bachelors count for female staff.
About the middle of June social life and cultural activities are in high favor throughout the year. A child born on this day will be affectionate sympathetic steadfast in mind and.
Dave Regan here notes Earl and Mrs Earl McQuinn of Star News on Broad St. traveled to Texas and into Mexico to visit their Air Force trainee son. They narrowly avoided the St. Louis bank robbery aftermath, drew back home, and consider returning to wild Texas. The column also laments winter’s bite and a busker of hitchhikers on South Main.
Paul Valentine plans to sue Confidential Magazine for libel over a paragraph about his marriage to Lili St. Cyr and her alleged support of him during their time together. The item cites Valentine as ex husband No. 2 and references RKO pay.
Jeff Morrow recalls being detained as a vagrant during The Robe shoot after growing a beard for his role. He says Hollywood cops grabbed him five times, then gave an ID card to carry on set. Magnani is described as small and slim with a tiny waist, drawing varied reactions from reporters.
Society editors forecast summer buzz as two prominent society figures from elite circles announce divorces. The high profile separations involve known blueblood and social set members reshaping their social standings and financial ties this season.
A playful headline notes a Sky-View cab driver named Ulysses S. Grant. The rider jokes about a quick spin around the park before returning home, invoking the Civil War general as a tongue in cheek character.
The excerpt lists quick Q A pairs on topics from indigo dye to Hindu numerals and the Iron Crown of Lombardy. It notes Rob ert E Lee as the Harper’s Ferry capture officer and identifies 1896 as the year Detroit saw its first automobile driven by Charles D King.
A scientist claims a man’s energy is worth a penny an hour and falls with spring. Some bosses overlook stenographers’ spelling errors if their numbers are accurate.
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