Playhouse 90 Ends Season With The Second Happiest Day
CBS Playhouse 90 closes its season with The Second Happiest Day adapted from John Phillips novel. Performances by Judith Anderson Fay Wray and Randall cited as uneven with problematic dialogue and mixed interpretations. Television notes cover Astaire Paar Boone and other NBC CBS ABC program highlights and future specials.
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New York
UPI
Cbs-Tv
Playhouse 90
Steven Gethers
John Phillips
John Marquand
Scott Fitzgerald
Marquand
Margaret O'Brien
Judith Anderson
Fay Wray
Tony Randall
Randall
Miss O’brien
Elderly Man in Rest Home Kills Himself
In Houston Texas 88 year old Fred McCallister a bedfast retired railroad worker learned Thursday an ambulance would transfer him to a rest home. He reportedly drew a pistol from under his bed and shot himself in the head causing instant death per medical examiner A. C. Martin-Gal. Ada Bodie the housekeeper had cared for him since 1932 after Mrs McCallister died in a house fire.
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Houston
Tex
Fred McCallister
A. C. Martin- Gal
McCallister
Ada Bodie
Classic Statues Need Cover Up
Paramus reports The Continental Restaurant agreed to cover up a Venus statue in the dining room. The Rosary Society of St. John’s Church of Bergenfield plans a communion breakfast there Sunday. The statue will be draped with a bra or table cloth to address concerns.
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Paramus
N. J
The
Rosary Society
St. John’s
Bergenfield
Venus
Deaths in Northeast Louisiana and Transylvania Areas
Funeral services were held for J. H. Shackelford of Bernice in Pasgah Baptist Church with interment at the church cemetery. W H Honeycutt of Hot Springs died in Monroe hospital. graveside services set for Morning Star cemetery in Hot Springs. Thomas Jaritt Collins, 44, a farmer and trucker of Transylvania, died in Lake Providence hospital. funeral at Transylvania Baptist Church with interment in Lake Providence Cemetery. Survivors detailed for Shackelford, Honeycutt, and Collins include spouses, children, and extended family members.
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Ruson
J. A. Shackelford
Henery Holder
Bernice
Harry Kimball
Homer
Calvin
Boyce
W. H. Honeycutt
Morning Star
Hot Springs
Ark
Monroe
Edith White
West Monroe
Gladys Futrell
Jonesboro
Agnes Pinaire
White
S. B. Honeycutt
Oak Grove
A. M. Honeycutt
Edward Honeycutt
C. B. Honeycutt
Mississippi
George Honeycutt
Memphis
Transylvania
Thomas Jaritt Collins
Lake Providence
Transylvania Baptist Church
Fred Keyes
Young
Tallulah
Collins
Juanita Couch Collins
Donny Ray Wilhite
Naomi Collins
Joe
Ralph Collins
D. H. Collins
Virgil Collins
Wilburn Collins
Ray Collins
U. S. Army
Germany
R. B. Carter
C. C. Watson
Ferriday
Elton Fortenberry
Questioned polio vaccines at WHO conference prompt debate
At a World Health Organization conference in Washington, scientists from 20 nations debated whether live virus polio vaccine is superior to the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Proponents cite field tests in 4.5 million people across Russia and Eastern Europe and Latin America. The U S Public Health Service has not licensed live polio vaccine pending more controlled safety tests.
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UPI
America
World Health Organization
Russia
Europe
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Singapore
Latin America
U. S. Public Health Service
Long Hair Is Disadvantage For Girl In Swim Class
Jane Hadley ages 12 returns from swimming class with tangled brown hair. She explains boys in the class have crew cuts and she is the only girl they can practice the hair-carry on in life saving lessons, prompting discussion of hairstyle in training.
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Kansas City, Mo
Jane Hadley
Man with “Lots Of Guns” Detained After Police Visit
Venice California officers serving two traffic tickets found Joseph E Calloway 22 with a .45 automatic a fully assembled machine gun seven rifles two other automatics two .45 revolvers and dynamite. He claimed to have “lots of guns” and was taken in for questioning while two youngsters were in his home.
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Venice
Calif
UPI
Joseph E. Calloway
Calloway
Woman says she shot in self defense in sleepwalking
In Tampa Florida Mrs Lucille Barnett 32 says she shot her husband to death while asleep she awoke to a shotgun blast and saw a smoking gun in her hands physicians will examine her before any charges. In Montgomery Alabama Governor Patterson will sign a bill making the camellia official flower of the state at his wife’s request.
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Tampa
Fla
UPI
Lucille Barnett
Barnett
William Barnett
Montgomery, Ala
John Patterson
Alabama
Transfer Of Students In N.Y. Noted
Mayor Wagner will contact the city schools chief about moving 1,000 pupils mostly Negro and Puerto Rican from Brooklyn slums to less crowded schools in Queens and Brooklyn. About 300 Queens residents picketed City Hall in rain, claiming the shift could raise juvenile delinquency and lower property values. counter pickets said the protest targets not integration.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
John J. Theobald
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Queens
Glendale
City Hall
N.Y.C
Little Rock
New York City
John Clancy
Long Amendment Boosts Welfare Payments In Senate Vote
Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana steered an amendment through the Senate by a 42 to 36 vote to raise welfare payments for the aged blind disabled and dependent children. The Long welfare amendment was attached to H R 723 which also passed. The measure would increase federal contributions to state and local welfare programs without raising costs to states and goes to conference with H R 7523.
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Washington
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
United States Senate
House
Senate
Sénator Long
Mayor Briefing Sparks Transfer Plan Talks
The conference featured remarks by Wagner who pledged to contact Theobald about transfer plans, outlining a brief engagement with the mayor that spurred follow up on the proposed move.
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