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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
2
Lemu al F Parton profiles Blandford and Dr Walter H Eddy amid wartime housing shifts and rationing. Blandford, 45, heads national housing, guiding 278000 new war housings in a year. Eddy, emeritus at Columbia, offers daily resilience and notes on rationing and stimulants.
MERIAN C. COOPER returns from China and Washington praised by Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault. The 49-year-old aviator-actor candidly shares memories from the AEF in France to barnstorming Europe and Hollywood before this war.
Western Union report from the academy awards season notes Noel Coward’s In Which We Serve named best picture after close balloting. James Cagney wins best actor for Yankee Doodle Dandy, Agnes Moorehead best actress for The Magnificent Ambersons.
Notes on film roles and plot twists across various stories. Billy Sev ern keeps a woolly lamb in Journey for Margaret while a bath and oven mishap unfold. Richard Quine departs to war in many films and joins the coast guard. Marcy McGuire is set to play Ginger Rogers sister in Government Girl at RKO. Ellen Drew endures tattered clothes in Night Plane From Chungking as a romance unfolds with an American pilot.
Smithsonian acquires the first breech loading rifle used in warfare. Maj. Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Highlanders led British troops at Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, where 334 of his force were killed or wounded and the commander fell. An inscription at Kings Mountain memorial honors Ferguson as a gallant officer and reflects postwar Anglo American friendship.
A tip suggests rubbing melted paraffin on a snowshovel to prevent sticking. A dress keeps slipping from a hanger, and tightening rubber bands around the hanger ends is advised to fix it.
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