Hollywood Stars React To Skouras Speech On Democracy
Hollywood staff debate Spyros Skouras remarks claiming films rival the Marshall Plan in democracy impact. Readers note jokes and gossip about actors, contracts, and industry moves, including Joan Davis, Barbara Ann Scott, Bob Hope, Mitchum pranks, and Durango Chamber activity.
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Hollywood
Spyros Skouras
20Th Century- Fox
America
Mama
Skouras
Europe
Joan Davis
CBS
Joan
de Mille
John Andrews
Vaughn Monroe
Dana
Barbara Ann Scott
Sonja Henie
20Th Century-Fox
Bob Hope
Ann Blyth
Los Angeles
Toluca Lake
Robert Mitchum
Mitchum
Lew Ayres
Watz
Jane Greer
RKO
Dan
Dailey
Durango
Colorado
Chamber of Commerce
Hannah
Jack Dempsey
Williams
Victor Discs
D'jah
Farley Granger
Pasadena
Monroe News Star history and contact note
The Monroe News Star presents details about its publication history as second class mail matter since June 1999 and credits the Associated Press. It lists advertising and news offices in multiple cities and provides telephone contacts for departments. The paper states its independence and impartial reporting stance.
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Monroe
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Branaam CO
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
Dallas
Stroit
St Louis
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Memphis
Moral Mosquitoes Fail To Teach Right From Wrong
Hal Boyle retells a fable of Dr. Alfonso Cortex who creates trained moral mosquitoes to teach virtue to world leaders. The mosquitoes bite many, proving none fully good, and the scientist learns the limits of intellect in solving morality.
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Dr. Cortex
Cortex
Polio Emergency Drive Urges Public Help Now
In 1949 polio devastates families nationwide and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sees a $14,500 need that outstrips March of Dimes funds. Officials plead for immediate local contributions to support patients, transport, nurses, and hospital supplies, urging readers to mail gifts to POLIO care of their post office.
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Twin Cities
National Foundation For
National Foundation
National
Undertow myth debunked by oceanography expert
Dr. Francis P. Shepard of UC Scripps Oceanography says there is no undertow and that dangerous surf currents are rip tides. He explains rip currents move in narrow bands caused by uneven seafloor and advises swimmers to go out at right angles to escape. The piece notes public naming vs. scientific terms and cautions beachgoers to stay in shallow water when breakers rise.
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Francis P. Shepard
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Shepard
Dr. Shepard
Rip Channel
Language Lovers Go Abroad and Laugh in Translation
Henry M’Lemore laments language barriers while touring abroad in a humorous travel reminiscence. He recalls sign language misadventures and criticizes a Spanish dictionary that omits common words yet lists odd ones, highlighting cultural mismatches and comic misunderstandings.
Kitty’s Education By Life Not Books Says Dr Patri
Anglo Patri argues Kitty gains education through family life experience rather than formal schooling. He praises Kitty’s skills in homemaking, caregiving, and community ties, noting she is a successful, well loved person even without a diploma. The piece promotes valuing nonacademic learning and social roles alongside Honey’s honors.
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Kitty
Honey
U S aids Latin navies with training films in five nations
The United States trains Latin American naval personnel through war era films in Brazil Venezuela Colombia Chile and Ecuador. Translators from each country adapt Spanish and Portuguese narrations while officers contribute terminology and diction. Cuba Mexico and Turkey join the program, expanding the reach of naval training.
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Washington
U. S
Brazil
Venezuela
Colombia
Chile
Ecuador
Cuba
Mexico
Turkey
Atlantic Pact Copy Filed With United Nations
The north Atlantic pact was formally filed with the United Nations in line with the UN charter. Warren R. Austin delivered the document to Secretary-General Trygve Lie at Lake Success, and the pact will join existing treaties in the UN archives with no comment from either side.
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Lake Success
United Nations
U. N
Trygve Lie
Warren R. Austin
United States
World Peace Organization
Austin
Lie
Answers to Civil Questions and Historical Facts
A compact set of Q and A covering origins of agricultural fairs in New York 1819, Macaulay’s "fourth estate" recognition around 1828, the Canary Islands as Fortunate Isles, Henry VI founding Eton College in 1440, presidential power to call extra sessions per Article II, and the 11-year locust size and color details.
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Thomas Macaulay
Statism and Other Shifts in Word Meaning
DeWitt Mackenzie notes fast changing language in foreign affairs analysis. He cites conflicting definitions of statism and fascist usage as examples of how terms evolve and create confusion without clear context.
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Associated Press
Washington
Columbia University
General Eisenhower
Department of
Funk and Wagnalls
New York
New College Standard Dictionary
Moscow
Captain Jack Davis Improves at Local Hospital
Captain Jack Davis of the Monroe police department has shown improvement after a weeklong illness that included a virus infection and bronchial condition. He is now receiving visitors at Wright-Bendel Clinic as his recovery continues.
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Jack Davis
Monroe Police Department
Wright-Bendel Clinic
Metrria
Capt. Davis
Unruh Paranoid Killer Faces Mental Health Probe
James Marlow reports on the Camden shooter James Unruh a 27 year old man who killed thirteen people and is held for two weeks in a state insane hospital Psychiatrists debate his sanity noting his Bible reading persecution delusions and grudge against neighbors They question if such signs were recognizable earlier and whether treatment could cure him.
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Madrid
America
Spain
Washington
Howard Unruh
Camden
N. J
State Insane Hospital
Jersey
Unruh
New Jersey
Puzzle Fragments Echo Across Places and Terms
A collage of clues spans nature, objects, and language from evergreen trees to Greek letters. It enumerates terms from silkworm and oriental cap to hierarchies like epoc h and French department, with crossed references including pear, innkeeper, and zebra.
Precious Blarney Stone Not For Sale Says Owner
Blarney Castle owner Sir George O Colthurst rejects sale offers from Americans and others since the war. He notes the stone draws many visitors and describes the ascent path to kiss the famed slab in County Cork Ireland.
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Blarney Castle
County Cork
Ireland
George O. Colthurst
United States
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