Trouble in Red Army sparks anti Communist movement rumors
Reports claim anti government tracts circulate among Red Army troops and materials linked to an anti Communist organization surface in Leningrad. Soviet displine cited as lax while Berlin blockade pressure prompts Soviet zone unrest and the purge of a Socialist Unity party leader in Saxony.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Vienna
Kuzma Romanovich
Germany
Berlin
Russia
Socialist Unity Party
Saxony
Herr Schliebs
Bautzen
Hobo Basket reaches Birmingham with funds for crippled kids
The Hobo Basket, started six months ago by three southern railway yard clerks in Birmingham, Alabama, has circulated from freight car to car across most of the nation. It now returns to Birmingham carrying messages from rail workers and more than $8,000 collected for crippled kids.
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Southern Railway
Birmingham
Ala
Caboose
Berlin Air Lift Showcases Navy Air Freight Advantage
In Berlin observers note the Mars flying boats fly 200 mile hops from Hamburg to Berlin carrying about 35 tons, far exceeding DC-3s. The piece argues navy air assets could better coordinate with the army for the Berlin airlift, highlighting efficiency in lift per gallon and reduced air traffic.
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Air
Symington
Defense Forrestal
Berlin
Navy
Mars Flying Boats
Hawaii
Hamburg
Mars
Frankfort
Pickens uses football to heal North South rifts in Alabama
Champ Pickens of Montgomery runs December North South all star games to improve regional understanding. He faced a Missouri North South dispute after a star player named Jefferson Davis, from Columbia Missouri, was placed on the North side after a map check. He formed the Blue and Gray association charging $1 to support a stadium shrine for those who were both Blue and Gray.
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Champ Pickens
Montgomery
Ala
Truman
Pickens
University of Missouri
Missouri
Jefferson Davis
Columbia
University
Mason-Dixon Line
Blue and Gray Association
Leona Mat Success and Happiness Reflections on Theft
Kathleen Norris discusses a confession letter from Leona about stealing $2,000 by deception and the impact on her life. She advises reestablishing friendship with Annie, confessing truth later, and seeking moral peace rather than legal punishment. The piece weighs moral law, guilt, and redemption over time.
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Leona
Annie
Restitution Advice for Leona Matson’s Theft Case
A Hollywood writer’s employee Leona Matson stole money and seeks restitution without informing her husband or former employer. A suggested plan urges reestablishing contact with the aged ex-boss, visiting with gifts, moving her to a better hotel, then making a full confession to restore peace of mind and repay the defalcation.
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Leona Matson
Leona
Miss Norris
Ethel Merman Shatters Bowl With High Note
Mrs Robert Willis of Mento Queensland reports New York singer Ethel Merman cracked a brand new 12 inch mixing bowl in two pieces while recording Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. She notes high note power surpassed local glass shattering.
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Brisbane
Australia
New York
Ethel Merman
Robert Willis
Mento
Queensland
Ethel
Beyond Glory and Wild Calendar Lead Film Notes
Inez Gerhard Lansdowne notes that if his on screen fist fights stacked up they would total 90 minutes. Beyond Glory marks his first film without a fight scene with another character. Audie Murphy loans his Distinguished Service Cross to Lansdowne for the role, and Murphy appears in a featured screen debut. Enterprise studios books James Mason for Wild Calendar with Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan as co stars. Mason will play a sympathetic second man in the love triangle.
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Inez
Gerhard Lansadd
Paramount
Audie Murphy
James Mason
Enterprise Studios
Barbara Bel Geddes
Robert Ryan
Mason
Bus chauffeur to Vaughn Monroe orchestra teases singing lessons
A music loving bus driver who works as chauffeur for the Vaughn Monroe orchestra jokes he learned piano and trumpet from Monroe’s players and now plans singing lessons. Around the same time Jimmy Durante stars in MGM’s This Time for Keeps as a sponsor change unfolds.
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Vaughn Monroe
CBS
Monroce
March of Time explores the career girl in modern society
The program surveys young working women or career girls detailing how they begin their careers the jobs they hold how they manage money and social life and their views on marriage.
Talented pig in June Bride sparks makeup tweak
Bretaigne Windust from the New York Theater Guild ordered a pig’s tail taped to curl after concerns a dog might be in disguise. Gordon MacRae, after screen debut in The Big Punch, signs to amplify radio shows, records, and films, buys a car and house, joins Lakeside Golf Club, and takes a star role in Look for the Silver Lining.
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Bette Davis
Robert Montgomery
Bretaigne Windust
New York Theater Guild
Gordon McCrae
Lakeside Golf Club
Photographer Jay Seymour Captures Quiz Show Winners
Jay Seymour, official photographer for over six quiz shows, poses to photograph winners then heads to his studio to develop and print pictures for newspapers magazines and wire services. He recalls a week of big jackpots on Break the Bank Hit the Jackpot Whats My Name and The Bob Hawk Show.
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Jay Seymour
Bob Hawk
Two Cesare Borgias on screen in Italy films cast
John Lund stars in A Mask for Lucretia and Orson Welles appears in Prince of Foxes as part of Italian productions. The Lassie Show renews for 52 weeks on NBC. Three new film scripts are in development for the beloved canine star Rin Tin Tin. Randy Scott and Ella Raines shot The Walking Hills in Death Valley enduring 80 mph winds and 50 degree daily temperature swings.
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Cesare Borgias
John Lund
Lucretia
Orson Welles
Italy
Lund
NBC
Randy Scott
Ella Raines
Columbia
Death Valley
Household Tips From A Bygone Era
A collection of domestic tricks including storing peanut butter upside down and refrigerating French dressing, making thick gravies from rice water, removing rust with scouring powder, using cardboard containers as scrapers, and a fruit cake method that bakes inside an orange shell.
Methods for removing pinfeathers from chickens
The text explains two techniques for removing pinfeathers in poultry. It notes tweezers as a handy tool and presents an alternative using melted paraffin that is poured over the bird, allowed to harden, and peeled away to carry off the pin feathers.
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Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
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Tony
Boston
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WIN Features
Alan Ladd
Jimmy Durante
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Elly Allus
M. H. Jamison
Morganton, N. C
Mint
Dorothy Hofbauer
Ravenna
Nebr
E. Pearl Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Numaid
W. H. Buil
W. H. Bull
Tee
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