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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1960
Page
23
A novice faces a crowded market and learns to pick by main interest. The article weighs motion picture versus stills, 8mm versus 16mm, color slides versus black and white, and box cameras to advanced models. It advises starting budget and prioritizing reliable sales guidance.
The list shows Hawaii by Michener at position one, Advise and Consent by Drury at two, The Constant Image by Davenport at three, O’Hara’s Ourselves to Know at four, and May This House Are Safe From Tigers by King at one. Hawley’s The Lincoln Lords sits at five, Jarvis Folk Medicine at two, Kennedy’s The Enemy Within at three, Parkinson’s The Law and Profits new, Catton Grant Moves South at four.
Hollywood AP Steve Allen drives with a voice recorder in his car to capture ideas for songs and stories while commuting from Sherman Oaks to Hollywood He composes songs on the road says the method relaxes him and he prefers it to cussing traffic He co stars with Jayne Meadows in College Confidential and discusses his serious acting aims and anti nuclear tests activism with UCLA classes and a public image as a comedian Also mentions a London rat killing record by a dog nearly a century ago.
The library reviews Isadora Duncan biography by Macdougall calling it dull and inaccurate while praising Kennedy family history by Joseph Dineen. It notes Robert Kennedy’s The Enemy Within and Dr Thomas Dooley’s The Edge of Tomorrow as recently added titles focusing on politics and foreign affairs.
Hollywood AP reports Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich win the best written American drama award from the Writers Guild of America for The Diary of Anne Frank. Other honors include Mei Sha velson and Jack Rose for The Five Pennies and Norman Krasna receiving the Laurel Award. Groucho Marx accepts Krasna’s honor while in Switzerland.
Vice President Nixon assigns Senators Stephen M. Young of Ohio and Thomas E. Martin of Iowa to represent the Senate at the dedication of six World War II American military cemeteries in Europe. The delegation will travel July 4 to July 25.
In Munich Germany blue jeans eclipse lederhosen as the youth’s preferred garment. Georg Schmitt of a local firm reports sales of 50 000 jeans a year though imports are blocked by customs. German imitators sell about a million pairs annually as the blue jean fad claims Germany’s youth.
A new Malta stamp set marks the 1900th anniversary of the ship wreck of St Paul. The 1% depicts the wreck from a Valletta church painting, the 3d shows the consecration of St Publius, the 6d stars St Paul near Malta, the 8d the statue of St Paul, the 1 shilling an Acts of the Apostles allegory, and the 2s6d features St Paul with St Paul’s Bay islets in background. Israel issues three airmails portraying historic towns Zefat and other famed sites with religious heritage.
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