Hal Boyle Hero No. 1 A Man With Typewriter
New Yorker Hal Boyle profiles Lt. Col. Jay Wessels of the U S Air Force as a wartime morale figure who ran a guerrilla press camp in Tunisia Sicily and France. Wessels inspired pilots like Capt Levi Chase and Col Phil Cochran and is praised for storytelling that boosted fighter morale.
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Mediterranean
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Texas
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Chou En Lai plays to Arabs as Israel faces isolation
The article argues Chou En Lai courts Arab support to counter Israel, notes UN failings and Western aloofness, and warns Israel’s peril unless an Israel Arab conference resolves outstanding issues. It discusses Jewish history in China, Arab influence, and global power politics shaping the Middle East.
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Chou En-lai
Red China
Gamal A Nasser
Egypt
Israel
China
Kaifeng
Asia
Falashag
Ethiopia
India
Nehru
Pakistan
United States
Great Britain
Isra‘el
Deeds Brighten Center Work and Circus Outreach
The Cerebral Palsy Center, funded locally, aided 33 victims. A tutor's Sunday School class funded dental repairs for one child. King Brothers Circus gave 206 people from Warren and Otterbein Homes the best seats and five cent treats on Founders Day. An Otterbein boy fed peanuts to an elephant, keeping the sack intact during the show.
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Otterbein
Welsh Nixon
Floyd King
King
Armco
Prisoners in China: U.N. seeks release of 17 airmen
Dag Hammarskjold intensifies efforts to free 17 U.S. airmen held by China after their Korean War shootdown. Congress member Adam Powell reports talks with Chou En-lai in Bandung. no passports issued for family visits. Banding talks hint at possible direct U.S. negotiations on Formosa.
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U.S. Air Force
China
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
Congress
Bandung
Indonesia
Chou En-lai
Powell
North Korea
U.S
U.N. General Assembly
Hammarskjold
Peiping
State Department
Formosa
Price Fixing Won't Produce Gas
An opinion argues against federal price controls on natural gas production. It notes gas exploration risks and high producer costs, contending competition and private enterprise have driven growth and supply. Price-fixing could reduce exploration, slow pipelines, and threaten jobs without benefiting consumers.
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Stete
Washington
Protection For Bicycle Makers In President’s Trade Review
President Eisenhower must decide by May 14 after Tariff Commission findings on bicycle imports versus U.S. producers. Aiding the domestic industry could raise duties or impose quotas. the industry values imports at 200 million dollars and notes a rising share of the market. Almost all imports come from Britain, which argues American preference for lighter bikes while U.S. makers cling to heavy one speeds.
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Eisenhower
Tariff Commission
U.S
Congress
Peace and water drive a weary columnist's eyes
Harry Boyd reflects on the difficulty of achieving world peace by meeting essential needs across regions. He recounts a Rocky Mountain Park trip to view the Big Thompson project and Echo Dam debates, noting viewer apathy and the stark 8,000 foot view of brown dust and dry fields that reveal why water remains vital to the West. He ends in a mood to seek solutions.
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Continental Divide
Echo Dam
Utah
Senate
Colorado
Estrellita’s Horoscope Outdoor Fun and Domestic Focus
The article forecasts a favorable day for social programs and entertainment, romance, and domestic matters while warning to avoid financial risks. Cooperation boosts occupations. Birthday note predicts six months of possible occupational changes and financial improvement, with chances of income from multiple sources and strong industry in a child born today.
Washington lambs and wool tale at a dinner party
A Washington dinner party devolved into a sheepish scene as Ecuadorian Ambassador Jose Chiriboga tried to follow a lively conversation with a guest who announced she was studying the Aramaic Bible. Rep. Berry staged a lamb stunt to press a wool labeling act repeal, while guests puzzled over the thread connecting the topics.
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Washington
Sulgrave Club
Jose Chiriboga
Kathryn Connor
Lunch with a Lamb at Congressional Hotel Dinner Party
A humorous account describes Rep E Y Berry inviting the speaker to lunch at the Congressional Hotel. The tableau includes a white lamb seated at the outdoor table, led in by a uniformed attendant and offered a bottle, creating a surreal scene.
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Rep. E. Y. Berry
South Dakota
Congressional Hotel
Representative Berry
Mau Maus and Tim bucktoosters Try to End Water Troubles
The speaker reflects on how folks seek help to fix water problems but remains far from solving what troubles the Mau Maus and the Tim bucktoosters. He notes many share this struggle and suggests peace remains elusive for a long time.
State Department official McCardle dubbed “the wayward sieve”
The State Department appoints Carl W. McCardle as Assistant Secretary of State amid controversy over his handling of Yalta papers. Critics label him a reckless risk, while supporters defend his efforts to reform archival access.
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State Department
Carl W. McCardle
Yalta
McCardle
Telling Me Russians Rally for Moon Rocket Tank Show
A 103-year-old Illinois man celebrated his birthday by singing on the radio. The remark links Soviet space mood to a late night TV show, noting enduring cultural trends and aging entertainment moments.
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Illinois
The
Times
Gossip from Gotham Aids Celebrity Intrigue And High Society
British attorney Sir Hartley Shawcross travels to the United States to confer with Joseph Robinson over Joanne Connelley Sweeny Paino's $96,000 diamond tied up in England. Other society notes include Grace Kelly’s escort at Luchow’s, Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane troubles, vaccine-smuggling rumors, burlesque queen Rose La Rose reconciling with Franco Ruocco, Ilona Massey’s memoir serialization, Joe DiMaggio’s first wife’s career shift, Jane Powell’s Las Vegas wardrobe spree, and ongoing feuds among Hollywood figures the Adams lounge and the House of Flowers cast.
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Hartley Shawcross
United States
Joseph 8. Robinson
Germany
Joanne Connelley Sweeny Paino
Patino
England
Max Ausnit
Havana
Grace Kelly
Luchow
Xavier Cugat
Abbe Lane
Paradise
U. ‘Ss
Rose la Rose
Franco Ruocco
Batiling
Ilona Massey
Joe DiMaggio
Dorothy Arnold
California
Fashionable crashes helmets and stars in play set
New fad with the hot rod set is lustom-made crash helmets costing up to 150 dollars. Ruth Clay, top Negro model, will wed James Bowman in June. Birdland-Dino DeLaurentis plans three more American stars for War and Peace in New York. Oleg Cassini shows affinity for the name Kelly via Claire Kelly. Jack Entratier of Las Vegas Sands Club seeks to buy Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood. Tenderest song title.
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Ruth Clay
James Bowman
Birdland
Dino DeLaurentis
New York
Oleg Cassini
Kelly
Claire Kelly
Jack Entratier
Las Vegas
Sands Club
Chasen's
Hollywood
Princess and kinship ties amid passport drama abroad
Princess Marie Eleana dates Renaldo Herrera Jr. Virginia Hill, noted Kefauver Probe figure, renounced U S citizenship in a tirade but protects her 34 year old son Peter's citizenship. The former Siegel associate appears regularly at the U S consulate in Switzerland with the boy's passport to keep papers in order.
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Marie Eleana
Renaldo Herrara Jr
Vireginia Hill
Kefauver Probe
Peter
Bugsy Siegal
U. S
Switzerland
Sugar maples need freeze thaw cycles for sap flow
Factographs describe how freezing nights and thawing days stimulate sugar maple sap production. It notes a dragonfly perches with feet but cannot walk, and cites that about 20,000 tons of steel are used yearly for license plates. Fort Okanogan is cited as the first American structure in present Washington, and farm labor supports urban populations, with six city people per farmer a century ago rising to six to one today.
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