Nighttime radio star’s shift into sales work teased
Mez Gerhard Harlotte Manson, famed daytime actress, moonlights as a promoter for records in New York clubs, with plans for a regular late show. Jane Russell records Five Little Miles from San Berdoo for London. Louis Hayward’s acting path began after a card draw with his uncle. Columbia marshals 100 wranglers and 150 horses for Ten Tall Men. Len Doyle arrives at NBC studios in fishing attire to visit Lake Flinflon. Dick Powell to take a summer vacation, then two films. James Cagney recalls Public Enemy fame as twenty years in show business. Judy Garland hires Pierre Balmain for stage wardrobe. Walter Wanger to develop four new actors at Allied Artists. The African Queen cast arrives in Uganda after filming in Belgian Congo. Odss and Ends notes Raft’s toothache on Rocky Jordan and Doris Day’s jaw surgery. Ronald Colman on The Halls of Ivy team effort.
Color perception in fish and line hues impact fishing
Scientific tests by Kottgen and Abelsdorf show rhodopsin enables color vision across humans and fish. Tackle makers offer many colored lures while dry-fly lines use light colors to avoid spooking fish. Bait lines, often black, are more visible underwater, influencing bass fishing under certain conditions.
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Kottgen and Abelsdorf
Carp Diets Refute Vegetarian Myth In Iowa Study
Fisheries biologist Tom Moen of the Iowa Conservation Commission analyzed 739 carp stomachs from 1946 to 1949. He found carp feed mainly on animal material in three groups: insect larvae crustaceans and mollusks. They do take walleye eggs during spawning but winter diets are entirely animal based with reduced feeding.
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Tom Moen
Iowa Conservation Commission
Moon
Spirit Lake
Okoboji
Iowa Lakes
Hook remover aids anglers with simple device
A metal tube with a slot is used to extract deeply swallowed hooks from fish throats. The line is threaded into the slot and the tube is slid along the hook, then a slight twist frees the hook. This device makes a previously messy job quicker and easier for anglers.
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Government Agent Dan Frazer shoots Vince Gale to protect Helen Bartell. He warns Derek Bartell that rivals in his faction seek control of hidden munitions. Frazer furnishes Helen with a gun from Archie Scott's body and intercepts an elderly attacker outside the Bartell home.
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Dan Frazer
Vince Gale
Helen Bartell
Derek Bartell
Bartell
Frazer
Helen
Archie Scott
Bartell House
Frazer Defuses Saloon Confrontation at Mesa Verde
Frazer restrains deputy Delaplane during a tense Mesa Verde standoff over guns. Emery seeks why the plan to trigger a Sonoran revolution is escalating and suspects Emil Kranz, a German ex-soldier, as a major ring leader. Frazer and Emery discuss clues linking Delaplane and Kranz to the alleged conspiracy.
Frazer Sees Guns Location as Main Crisis
Frazer explains that locating the guns is the crisis as Vasquez and Candino plot to infiltrate Bartell’s camp. A leak in Bartell’s organization may expose Mesa Verde to danger, prompting Frazer to seek military help and send a warning message at dawn.
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Frazer
Forty Fives In Ed Delaplane's Standoff At The Hotel
Ed Delaplane inspects two Colt's Forty Fives linked to a robbery and a murder case in Mesa Verde. He notes Gale and Scott's guns and fears Helen Bartell faces danger as a night visitor approaches the hotel stairway. The scene builds suspense as he readies to confront the intruder.
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Dan
Delaplane
Mesa Verde
Colt
Prospector
Gale
Scott
Helen Bartell
Bartell
Young Iowa Trucker Wins Safety Contest in Livestock Hauls
Walter Selman of Charlotte Iowa won the seven month Chicago livestock trucker safety program for hauling 7 000 hogs and 3 000 cattle from 19 states and Canada. He received 1000 in bonds and merchandise. His seven trucks logged 80 000 miles. He uses a portable loading chute and an electric prodder with sand and limestone on the floor to reduce injuries.
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Iowa
Walter Selman
Charlotte
Chicago
Chicago Stock Yards
Selmau
States
Canada
Selman
Frazer Refuses Deputy’s Gun Demand In Barroom Confrontation
Dan Frazer stands inside a hotel doorway as deputy Delaplane confronts him about carrying six guns. Frazer braces, recalling his plan and restraining himself, while Delaplane demands surrender and asserts authority amid tension over Helen Bartell’s mention in the room.
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Frazer
Delaplane
Dan
Ben Chew
Helen Bartell
Farm Production May Set All Time Record in 1951
American farmers can expect stronger demand for farm products in 1951 than 1950. With normal weather and effective pest control, production should exceed 1950, boosting gross income though farmers will pay higher prices for key inputs like machinery fuels livestock feed seeds and fertilizer.
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Agriculture Department
Garden Yardstick for the Handy Gardener
A tip for gardeners to carry a measuring tool by painting bright rings on a hoe handle at foot and half foot intervals. Also notes that glass or porcelain insulators should be used on electric fences, as substitutes are poor economy and unattractive.
New Pasture Helps Control Worms In Poultry Flock
Poultry experts urge farm wives raising chickens to give birds good pasture to control worms. Annual new pasture is key for growing flocks with brome alfalfa or ladino grasses as suitable options. Pastures should be clipped to maintain quality and health.
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Best
Dick Brown
Ehalf
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King’s Row
Jane Russell
London Records
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RKO
Robert Mitchum
Louis Hayward
Louis
London
Columbia
Dr. Jekyll
Burt Lancaster
Len Doyle
NBC
Harrington
Flinflon
Manitoba
Len
Dick Powell
Richard Diamond
Honolulu
James Cagney
Warners
Mae Clarke
Judy Garland
Pierre Balmain
Paris
Walter Wanger
Susan Hayward
Hedy Lamarr
Allied Artists
Humphrey Bogart
Katherine Hepburt
John Huston
Uganda
Africa
Belgian Congo
George Raft
CBS
Rocky Jordan
Doris Day
Ronald Colman
Ivy
Don Quinn
Nat Wolff
Benita
Charlotte Manson
Horz
Jim Rhody
James Lynch
South Orange
N. J
Bimini
Cat Bay
Lynch
Cortland
Halleran
Carson Emery
Emery
Sonora
Emil Kranz
Mexico
Ramon Vasquez
Manuel Candino
Vasquez
Candino
Kranz
Ed Delaplane
Eugene E. Halleram
William J. O'Conner
Union Stock Yards
Walter Sel Inau
Chapter
Electric Cowboy
Cara Wher
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
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Fido
Major
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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