Laura star Webb discusses filming set and career
In a vivid backstage chat, Waldo Lydecker actor Web discusses Lauras bathtub set, fashion, and his Hollywood arc. He recalls past roles, contract moves at Twentieth Century Fox, and his career highs with Broadway dances and screen comedy. Donna Lee OLeary, Dick Powell, and Shirley Temple appear as future links in studio plans.
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Lifton Webb
Webb
Laura
Twentieth Century
Vera Caspary
Waldo Lydecker
Cholly Knickerbocker
Alex Woollcott
Lydecker
Waldo
Dana Andrews
Sulka
Charvet
Mother Nature
Homburg
New York
Mary Hay
Dick Barthelmess
Wilde
Twentieth Century-Fox
Monty Woolley
Laird Cregar
Connie Bennett
Donna Lee O’leary
R.K.O
O'Leary
Deanna Durbin
Dick Powell
Shirley Temple
Frank Sinatra
Metro
Merlin of
Mary of
Postwar push to rebuild schools and recruit teachers
The article argues that the British and American education systems face a crisis as Pearl Harbor losses and wage issues shrink teaching staff. It cites low salaries, overcrowded classrooms, and a surge in veterans seeking education under the GI bill. It urges higher pay, better conditions, and proactive recruitment of teachers, plus broader cultural and health education.
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WNU Service
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
Churchill
Great Britain
Pearl Harbor
Journal
The
National Education Association
England
Armed Services
Smith
Legion
Congress
National Association of Manufacturers
University of Chicago
Hutchins
Antioch
Solomon
Behind the scenes fight over price controls in Congress
The long struggle to preserve the emergency price control act intensifies as farm and business groups push amendments. Wherry seeks curbs on filing limits and broadened legal challenge rights while OPA battles to maintain enforcement, arguing the agency trims inflation but faces legal and operational obstacles.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Farmers of America
OPA
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Kenneth S. Wherry
Neb
Wherry
Farm Group
National Grange
A. S. Goss
American Farm Bureau Federation
Edward O’neal
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
John H. Davis
National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation
Charles W. Holman
Chester Bowles
Office of
Price Administration
Cold baths urged as Germans seek calm nerves
The article notes Germans are advised to take cold foot baths or showers to ease pre invasion jitters. It states over 60,000 men are needed for lumbering and pulpwood before fall to meet 1944 demands. War Manpower reports farm labor needs may reach 4,000,000 extra workers, including 1.2 million under 18 and 0.8 million women. Ontario holds 30 million tons of salt deposits sufficient for global needs for 100,000 years.
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Doan
War Manpower Commission
WFA
Ontario
Lemon and Water Wake Up Drink For Digestion
A reader promotes a daily wake-up drink of one Sunkist lemon in water to stimulate bowel action without harsh laxatives. The lemon water is claimed to boost vitamin C intake, resist fatigue, aid digestion, and improve appetite while providing a refreshing mouth feel. Try this for ten mornings and see if it helps.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Sunkist
California Sunkist Mons
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