America’s Maiden Voyage Hero Captain Stedman
Capt Giles Stedman, master of the 35 000 ton liner America, steered the new ship through the Narrows on her maiden passenger voyage. The 42 year old earned honors from Italy, Britain, and the United States for rescue and seamanship in multiple wartime and peacetime crises.
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New York
United States
America
Queen
American
Giles Chester Stedman
Leviathan
Newport News
Stedman
United States Navy Cross
Admiralty
Treasury Department
Hollywood Beards Jam Big Bear Sets With Stars
Big Bear California hosts busy film lots as 20th Century Fox and Monogram units fill the town. Irene Rich Charles Bickford Melvin Lang Dave O'Brien and June Carlson lead a crowded cast with on set injuries and tips from Bickford. Ida Lupino joins John Garfield in East of the River as possibilities loom for Rodgers and Astaire. Betty Field expands screen roles while Ralph Edwards shifts to Truth or Consequences growth and a national WEAF launch.
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Big Bear
Calif
20Th Century-Fox
Brigham Young
Monogram
Queen of the Yukon
Irene Rich
Charles Bickford
Melvin Lang
Dave O’brien
June Carlson
Bickford
O’brien
Phil Rosen
Miss Marker
Errol Flynn
Captain Blood
May Robson
Ida Lupino
Warner Brothers
John Garfield
Ralph Edwards
Oakland
New York
WEAF
Screen News and Star Speculation In 1940s Hollywood
Geraldine Fitzgerald returns on screen with George Raft in South of Suez. Charlie Chaplin’s The Dictator likely mid September release. Susanna Foster receives a gold box that plays Fight on for U.S.C. Tyrone Power to star in Zorro adaptations, current project The Cali a remake of The Mark of Zorro.
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Geraldine Fitzgerald
Estar
George Raft
Suez
Charlie Chaplin
Susanna Foster
U.S. C
University of Southern California
Tyrone Power
Zorro
California
Cali
Douglas Fairbanks
Down draft woes and home repairs from a New Hampshire home column
Wind from surrounding hills may cause a down draft in the chimney despite heightening. A revolving sheet metal cap with a vane can redirect wind and reduce downward sweep. Other tips cover brick disintegration from frost, waterproofing, and two coats if porous. Also notes on sawdust concrete, rust on white cement, plastering with painter’s cloth, folding doors or portieres to separate rooms, leaking copper leaders, burst boiler repairs, and restoring tarnished brass with vinegar and lacquer.
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Extension Service Bureau
University of New Hampshire
Durham
N. H
Household Questions and Food Tips
Practical tips cover rust removal with sour milk, jabbed articles not washed in hot water, and using lukewarm water. Notes on refrigerator cold spots, color in goldfish tanks, frying technique, weighing sticky substances, juice appetizer blends, garnishing browned pears, and jelly chicken broth with gelatin and stock.
Centenarian Reflects On Life Eras In Interview
A village celebrates the hundredth birthday of its oldest resident. A newspaper reporter seeks an interview, and when asked what he would do differently, the aging man pauses and replies I would part my hair in the middle.
There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Men
There is a tide in the affairs of men and a gulf stream not set forever in one direction. This line reflects the view that history moves through shifting currents and changing fortunes.
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Lowell
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Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
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mid-Atlantic
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Ignazio Florio
Exeter City
Washington
Olivergrove
United States Coastguard
Mediterranean Sea
English Channel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States Line
Colonel Peck
Marines
Col. de. Witt Bushel
U. S
Shanghai
Bergson
Meuse-Argonne
St. Mihiel
Latin- America
Annapolis
Nicaragua
Cuba
Haiti
Virginia Vale
Ar Union
Hollywood
Pat O’brien
Cary Grant
Shirley Temple
RKO
Fred Astaire
Ginger
Kitty Foyle
Herbert Moulton
Screen Entertainment
Maurice Chevalier
Jeanette MacDonald
Myrna Loy
Betty Field
Jackie Cooper
Lon Chaney Jr
F.D.R
Norfolk, Va
Hampton Roads
Roosevelt
E. H. Walter
Fort Monroe
Norfolk Navy Yard
Daniel J. Callaghan
Potomac
A.R.P
England
London
France
Lillian Hall
British Isles
Robert P. Patterson
Citizens
Plattsburg, N. Y
Louis Johnson
Col
Henry L. Stimson
Britain
Farley
Edward J. Flynn
New York City
Democratic National Committee
James A. Farley
Roger B. Whitman
Japan
Eupelngeran Sirens
Phila
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