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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1960
Page
15
In Central Park weekly, actors, dancers and crew of Broadway shows play softball as part of the Broadway Show League. Defending champions My Fair Lady edged Take Me Along 11 10 in extra innings amid showbiz banter and antics.
AP News features SYD KRONISH notes the UN will issue the third commemorative stamp of 1960 on August 29 to honor the Fifth World Forestry Congress in Seattle from August 29 to September 9. It describes design elements and designer 0 Halmann of Denmark and previews first day cover details to come. Yul Brynner offers his $500,000 UN stamp collection for a WRO exhibit. France issues include La Bourboule town 50 centimes, Strasbourg 2 centimes, and Chateau de Blois 30 centimes stamps.
The Philippines issues stamps marking the 25th anniversary of the Air Force. The set features the first Philippine Air Force plane under a Saber jet, with a rare 10 centavo stamp and a blue 20 centavo. A new Showguard stamp mount helps fit stamps of all sizes in albums, preserving air circulation and display.
Daughters and Rebels recounts Jessica Mitford’s childhood and marriage to Esmond Romilly with focus on sisters Diana Deborah and Nancy and their controversial roles. Watcher in the Shadows follows two intelligence officers in a WWII manhunt and a love tied motive. Frank Harris by Vincent Brome surveys the flamboyant editor and controversial author’s life and impact on figures like Shaw Wilde and Wells.
A bench warrant was issued for actor Jay Robinson after he failed to appear for a retrial on narcotics possession charges. Robinson, known for The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiator, was convicted in 1959 and an appeal ordered a new trial. Deputy D.A. Joseph Chandler said authorities had been searching for him. bond of 2300 was forfeited by Superior Court Judge Edward R. Brand.
Fiction titles include Advise and Consent by Drury, Hawaii by Michener, The Leopard by di Lampe, The Constant Image by Davenport, Trustee from the Toolroom by Shute, and I Kid You Not by Paar. Non fiction features May This House Be Safe from Tigers by King, Folk Medicine by Jarvis, The Law and the Profits by Parkinson, and The Enemy Within by Kennedy.
Phyllis Curtin, famed American soprano, pursues architectural forms in her photography. She hikes to capture castles cathedrals and churches with a memory for time and place. Her camera method favors spontaneity over rules, contrasting with her strict operatic discipline. One image shows a burro ferried across a Peruvian mountain stream, a moment she chased with equal zeal.
The photographer favors instinct over light meters and tripods, relying on long familiarity with her Zeiss Ikon folding camera to gauge exposure. She recalls a Scotland dusk scene near Edinburgh where opening to the widest aperture and 125th second captured the mood, preferring artistic feel to sharp detail.
Hollywood notes Dmitri Tiomkin marks 30 years as a film composer famed for purely Americana scores. Born in St Petersburg, the Russian-born maestro has penned themes for High Noon The Alamo Giant and Duel in the Sun, describing himself as a guitarist hillbilly at heart.
A fragment notes the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans was built in 17 percent, reflecting a historical estimate in the period context. The sentence preserves the incomplete detail as part of the readable text.
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