Desert Song shines in Liebman TV spectacular
Max Liebman’s 90 minute color broadcast of Sigmund Romberg’s Desert Song dazzled with romantic singing by Nelson Eddy and Gale Sherwood. Eddy’s return and strong vocal lines carried the production while Sherwood matched in form and tone. NBC’s live telecast impressed with seamless scene transitions, though Eddy’s makeup hinted at years past. The show defended its period style amid praised choreography and vocal clarity.
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Max Liebman
Sigmund Romberg
Nelson Eddy
Liebman
Bambi Linn
Rod Alexander
Romberg
Eddy
Jeannette MacDonald
Valuable Race Cars Ready For Time Trials Saturday
About a million dollars worth of specially built race cars filled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway grounds as 64 of 57 entries prepared for the May 30 500 mile race time trials. Contenders for track records and pole position arrived, with Novi Special delivered by air for Troy Ruttman. Bill Vukovich familiarizing with Lindsey Hopkins car. Jimmy Bryan piloting Dean Van Lines Kuzma Offenhauser. practice showed speeds around 140 mph for several crews amid windy conditions.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Bill Vukovich
Jrun
Lindsey Hopkins
Dean van Lines
Jimmy Bryan
Phoenix
Ariz
Bryan
Ruttman
Jack McGrath
Inglewood
Calif
Sam Hanks
Burbank
Kurtis-Krafts
Paul Russo
Fart Worth
Tex
Tony Bettenhausen
Tinley Park
Boxing News Sparks Middleweight Title Shakeup Olson May Abdicate
The Associated Press reports Middleweight champ Carl Olson may surrender the 160-pound crown if he wins a June 22 title shot at Archie Moore. Eduardo Lausse, 27, Argentine with 27 straight wins and 48 KOs, seeks entry to the scramble by beating Ralph Jones in a 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Jones, 34-13-3 with nine KOs, upset Sugar Ray Robinson earlier this year and could rise with an upset. Also tonight Wildcat Billy McNeece faces Tony Johnson in Brooklyn as a 2-1 favorite, and Isaac Logart meets Ludwick Lightburn at St Nicholas Arena on DuMont TV.
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Bobo) Olson
Olson
Archie Moore
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Ko) Lausse
Rugged Ralph
Tiger) Jones
Yonkers
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Radio-TV Highlights Tonight on WLW
Radio and television highlights list programs for WLW tonight. At 8 p.m. Best of All covers the history of music including techniques and instruments. At 9 p.m. Soprano Blanche Thebom sings Bizet and Debussy on Telephone Hour.
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Radio Tonight
WLW
Blanche Thebom
Bizet
Debussy
Air de Lia
Telphone
Elbe veterans welcomed in Moscow with banquet
Nine American World War II veterans arrived in Moscow for a five day stay as guests of the Soviet Union. Col Evgeny Porfiriev led a reception at the airport and a National Hotel banquet featured caviar steak vodka and wines. The visit follows a 1945 linkup and stemmed from a letter by Joseph Polonsky inviting Soviet veterans to Washington.
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Evgeny Porfiriev
Murray Schulman
Queens Village
N. Y
Paris
Prague
James Leonard
U. S
National Hotel
Elijah R. Sams Jr
Pinnacle
N.C
Joseph Polonsky
Chicago
Ill
Nikolai Bulganin
Washington
Soviet Committee of Veterans of the
Radio Programs Weekly Schedule Highlights
A dense listing of radio segments across WKRC WLW WMOH WSAI WPFB WMOB MCOM stations for Monday evening and Tuesday morning, naming shows, hosts, and times such as News Music Quiz Devotions Bible Clock and various program titles. The grid format reflects era styled blocks with numerous local personalities including Lenny Judith Hanson Barbara Elmer Hinkle and others.
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McCarthy
WKRC
WPFB
WMOH
WSAI
Matlock
WLW
Orson Welles Ties Knot With Countess in London
Orson Welles wed Countess Di Girfalco also known as Papula Mori in an early ceremony at London's Caxton Hall Registry. Welles aged 40, the Countess 24, are honeymooning with Peter Brook and his wife as witnesses. This marks Welles third marriage and the Countess first.
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London
Orson Welles
Countess di Girfalco
Papula Mori
Welles
Caxton
Peter Brook
Virginia Nicholson
Rita Hayworth
Salina Library patrons hunt for found dentures
At the Salina Public Library a man misplaced a pair of uppers. Several toothless citizens claimed the dentures after the incident, according to library officials.
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Salina, Kan
Salina Public Library
King Ranch chief Richard Kleberg Sr dies at 68
Richard M. Kleberg Sr. died of a heart attack at 68 in Hot Springs Arkansas. He chaired the King Ranch empire of cattle horses oil and cotton and was a former congressman. Survivors include his widow a brother two sisters and his son Richard Jr.
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Kingsvile
Tex
Richard M. Kleberg Sr
Hot Springs
Ark
Kleberg
King Ranch
Richard King
Mr. Dick
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Lyle
Congress
Robert
Big Ranch
Richard
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR
Richard Jr
Woman suffers shoulder injury from fall at private lake dam
A Middletown woman, Mrs. Edward Clay, 52, tumbled 10 feet from a private lake dam on No Man's Road. She likely fractured her right shoulder and sustained a scalp cut. Treated at Middletown Hospital and dismissed.
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No Man's Road
Edward Clay
Carolina St
Middletown Hospital
Dad In Hurry, Girl Missing Found By Patrol
In Topeka Kansas a police officer halted Floyd Robinson and asked if he had lost something. His 10-year-old daughter Shirley Ann was missing and later found at a service station a mile away by a patrol car returning her to her father.
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Floyd Robinson
Topeka
Robinson
Eskridge
Kan
Shirley Ann
John Leonard
Mother's Day Sermon by Rev Roy Johnson Highlighted by LA Guest
Mrs Clarinda C Mason 58 of Los Angeles attended a Mother's Day service at the Missionary Baptist Church in Farmington. Rev Roy Johnson delivered the sermon marking him as one of Mrs Mason's adopted sons for 11 years after she worked in Los Angeles service clubs. He trained as a seaman for gunnery on convoy escorts.
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Detroit
Clarinda C. Mason
Los Angeles
Missionary Baptist Church
Farmington
Roy Johnson
Roy
Mason
Envoy to Poland Dies On Way Home
Joseph Flack U S ambassador to Poland died aboard the liner United States of a heart attack en route to New York from Europe. Flack age 60 had served since 1950 and was returning home for reassignment with his wife Aloisia Schmid. Funeral services will be held in Doylestown Pennsylvania.
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Joseph Flack
U. S
Poland
United States
Europe
Flack
Aloisia Schmid
Doylestown
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