Hollywood News Notes On Army Service Star Power And Broadcasts
Virginia Vale reports on Gene Autry starting at the bottom of the ranks in the Army Air Corps with hope of a later commission. She notes Brave industry figures, Esther Williams, Penny Singleton, and the Grand Ole Opry’s camp tours, plus career moves for Irving Berlin, Robert Donat, and Jack Benny and a war bonds gesture by Edward G Robinson.
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Gene Autrey
Army Air Corps
Gene
P.S
Esther Williams
Esther
Andy Hardy
Hollywood
Grand Ole Opry
NBC
Caravan
Frank Morgan
Red~Skelton
Jack Benny
Edward G. Robinson
Summer Salads and Dressings Guide
A vintage style guide describes assembling summer salads with vitamin rich vegetables like celery carrots tomatoes cucumbers and lettuce. It explains Basic French Dressing two ways oil and vinegar and easy whisked mixtures and suggests serving leftovers with lettuce cups and light sides. Veal Salad Summer Style is introduced as a main course option.
Save Time with Smart Washing Practices
The note argues time rules for laundry. It claims long washes waste effort as soap breaks down and soils redeposit. It cites experiments showing some women wash faster yet cleaner and advises twenty minute soaks to loosen soil before wringing into a sudsy first washer.
Weekly Menu and Vintage Cold Salad Recipes
This week’s menu features Potato Salad and Cold Sliced Corned Beef with Condiments, plus Bread and Butter Sandwiches and Chocolate Pie. It presents detailed gelatin salads, Royal Meat Salad, Savory Corned Beef Loaf, and Frozen Fruit Salad with step by step ingredients and assembly notes.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Illinois
Teicinnies Union
Open top princess line frock for summer heat
The pattern describes a shoulder strapped, knee hem dress with a slim waist and long straight lines. It suits heat defier wear with a jacket for daywear and offers pattern numbers 8157 and 8141 in multiple sizes with fabric yardage details.
Currency Loss Policy for Missing Bills at BEP Washington
A lost currency bill or sheet at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington leads to employees covering the amount themselves after the department and secret service fail to locate it. The policy implies personal liability to restore the value to the treasury.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Department
Secret Service
Treasury
Question set on tall people figures and classical terms
A general knowledge quiz asks who are the world's tallest people and who Atalanta was. It defines omnes exeunt as a stage direction and asks how many states joined the Union during the Civil War era. It also queries the heaviest known substances and the meaning of a touchstone.
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Atalanta
White Dwarfs and Ancient Races the Shilluks in Sudan
The passage notes Shilluks in the Egyptian Sudan average nearly seven feet tall. It mentions a mythic swift creature who challenged suitors with death as the penalty. It lists places West Virginia and Nevada, white dwarfs described as very faint stars, and a stone used to test gold and silver purity.
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Sudan
West Virginia
Nevada
Two Wishes Quote Attribution From Whately
A quoted line contrasts wishing truth on our side with sincerely aligning with truth. The remark highlights moral discernment and integrity in purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whately
Past The Present Is The Living Sum Total
A compact philosophical line notes that the present embodies the entire past as a living sum, attributed to Carlyle.
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Carlyle
Smile Awhile and Witty Vignettes From a Notebook
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and quips. Items include a lady selling a canary after its birdlike song failed to survive radio static, a dental visit with gas, a girl’s prank with a tongue, quitting smoking jokes, a courtroom quip about insanity as a juror excuse, and a Brussels sprouts pun about smells.
Proving the hypotenuse equals sum of squares
A quip about geometry asks to prove the hypotenuse equals the sum of squares of the legs. The student admits the claim with a humorous misstatement, reflecting a playful exchange on the Pythagorean relation.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virginia Vale
Irving Berlin
New York
Robert Donat
Mr. Chips
Harold Bucquet
Maine Development Association
Walt Disney
Bambi
Augusta
Maine
Daisy
Penny Singleton
Penny
Arthur Lake
Larry Simms
Uncle Sam
Detroit
Frank Telford
Mutual
Detroit Board of Education
Telford
Lynn
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
West Wacker Dr
E World
Mendenhall
J. C. Mendenhall Medicine CO. Dept
Evansville
Indiana
Cuarantee Monument CO
Atlanta Ceorou
Mrs. Weatherbee
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