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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1952
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices for the Middletown Journal and Sunday News Journal with 5 and 6 day options and yearly rates, including U S and outside areas. It ends with a Bible verse Numbers 23 8.
The piece compares Douglas MacArthur’s keynote at the Republican convention with William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 Democratic showing. It notes MacArthur’s backer role for Taft, possible candidacy signals, and draft questions. Bryan’s speech helped him, amid free-silver power, though his acceptance speech later disappointed crowds.
A 1952 congressional review shows eighteen Representatives answered all 72 roll-call votes, with eleven Republicans and seven Democrats. The average member missed 15 votes (21 percent). Senators fared worse, with 129 votes and an average of 29 missed (22 percent). Ferguson and Williams missed only one each.
The column analyzes Lana R a 19 year old college student whose fear of insanity storms and venereal disease stems from self sex practices. It urges readers to accept scientific facts, notes many youths engage in such behavior, and promotes sending for a Sex Problems bulletin via the newspaper with a small fee.
Texas history notes that three presidents Sam Houston Mirabeau B Lamar and Anson Jones inspired one city and two counties named for them. The record highlights their leadership and the lasting geographic honors in Texas.
Dwight Eisenhower won the Republican nomination on the first ballot in Chicago. The Old Guard and Southern Republicans faced potential vanishing influence as Taft loyalists regrouped. Eisenhower picked Richard Nixon as running mate to broaden youth support, while Taft’s camp blamed Dewey for late convention failures. The result hinted at a fractured party and a possible shift in RNC dynamics.
Propensity for new horizons and enterprise drives strong plans and public interest. Ambition, confidence, and sound aims push toward advancement while cautions against treachery and faulty schemes. A child born today may face tricky emotional influences and careless misjudgments.
Trich Brandeis shares a humorous tale of buying a crumbling 18th or 19th century house in Connecticut. He and his wife chase a historical dream, face rats, lack of utilities, and rough remodeling, while he quips about lunacy and cites Mr. Blanding as a comic parallel.
Wilbur Peeble’s wife Trellis Mae packs for Chicago to attend the Democratic National Convention. She teases political insight and jokes about Bryan’s chances as she leaves for the trip, while Wilbur stays home. Letters from Trellis Mae will publish in the Journal starting Monday.
Edwin P. Jordan outlines daily water loss and intake, noting an average two quarts daily from drinking and a total loss of about two and a half quarts in normal activity. He explains dehydration risks from vomiting diarrhea and fever and mentions medical fluid replacement for sick patients.
A lighthearted note from NEA portrays speculation on how long Russians would disrupt the Helsinki Olympic Games. The gag imagines a pool predicting delays and uproar, joking that even Alan could win a foot race in the chaos.
Genevieve Reynolds, U S embassy press attache in Rio since 1950, helped interpret press briefs and arrange conferences for Brazilian newsmen. She notes progress in Latin American missions and cites Brazilian women gaining votes and public office but still under civil limits, including divorce restrictions.
Questions and Answers reveal why Panama hats, though made in Ecuador, carry the Panama name due to gold rushers finding them there first. The piece also notes Gen Henry Arnold’s 1912 radio taxi of troop movements, Maine’s state seal symbols, and New Zealand leading in mutton production.
Miss Reynolds, a former dancer from Lam ar South Carolina, travels across Brazil to study people and culture. She learned samba bahino and frevo dances and communicates with her maid Ruth who speaks little English. She keeps in touch with home via long distance calls and gathers records recipes and friends.
A neighborhood vignette contrasts kittens and a puppy playing together with adult human prejudice. The pets snarl and spar, yet remain amicable, while the dog looks on disdainfully. The piece suggests hostility is learned, not natural, and humans miss chances to know one another.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on Greer Garson and Buddy Fogelson amid stormy careers while Washington hosts a Dem win celebration. Eyewitnesses recount heavy drinking and high‑level guests. Vic Damone fears another deployment. Joan Fontaine returns from Europe. Tyrone Power and Linda Christians plan a trip. Jack Carson and Lola Albright wed soon. a major TV network head eyes England for a new gadget.
An era of summer gossips and headlines blends royalty and romance with show business woes. Prince Ranier of Monaco may visit New York this summer aboard a large yacht, courting Liz Millard on Long Island. Rogers and Dale Evans plan to adopt a baby boy while Ricky Rafeld and Peggy Maley’s marriage stirs talk. Broadway agencies fret as a steel strike ravages Cleveland Pittsburgh theatre trade. Norman Powell dates Danielle Lamar, and Patti Page and Sammy Davis Jr. headline in current entertainment cirques.
Gian Carlo Menotti's new opera won t be finished for a year Chandler Cowles warns Kay Thompson auditions another act One of the town s top commercial photographers sleepless over a missing porter with dozens of nude negatives Mike Lyman hospitalized after operation Madcap Merry Fahrney and her groom Dick Grest have first big blow up
An odd collage of light social notes and satirical remarks. Jokes about furniture polish piano play and TV watching mingle with odd facts such as an Ohio agri built a 6 by 6 foot dog house with cement walls and electric heat. The piece riffs on modern life and trends.
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