Esther Williams idea inspires spoof hints for star tie ins
Hollywood gossip column notes Esther Williams’ pool marketing idea could spur star driven home projects. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mario Lanza, Marilyn Monroe and others pitched do it yourself plans, while Dan Dailey quips about Gwen O’Connor and Audie Murphy jokes about bravado in films. Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes keep Nevada residence for legal reasons.
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Erskine Johnson
NEA
Hollywood
Esther Williams
Mario Lanza
Jack Benny
Bing Crosby
Marilyn Monroe
Jack Webb
Frank Sinatra
Era 4
Sonja Henie
Porfirio Rubirosa
Caesar Romero
Robert Mitchum
Lana Turner
Lex Barker
Dan Dailey
Gwen O'Connor
Donald O’ Connor
Dan
Gwen
Audie Murphy
Hell
Cea
Los Angeles
Anthony Quinn
Flicker
Kirk Douglas
Sylvana Mangano
Alan Young
Jane Russell
Las Vegas
Brothers Karamazov
Ballerina
Jeanmaire
Akron
Obis
Bing
New York
Rita Hayworth
Dick Haymes
Nevada
Rita
Lake Tahoe
Ed Purdom
Marquee sketches of showbiz and science notes
A collage of gossip and career notes features Dr. Allen B. DuMont finishing a TV movie camera invention, Harry Belafonte and Gina Lollobrigida joining a Portugal shoot, and Lily Pons returning to New York for a Met set. Steve Lawrence, 19, recalls family life in Brooklyn, while Marion Marlowe spends big on gowns for Cotillion Room routines and a Las Vegas tip claims to beat the tables. World Service Day plans a mission service at Centennial Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church with Mrs. Paul Horn as guest speaker. Aristarchus is credited with early heliocentric ideas around 265 B.C.
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Dick Kleine
Allen B. DuMont
Harry Belafonte
Gina Lollobrigida
Portugal
Belafonte
Gina
Merner
Maburn Christoper
Berlin
Christopher
Moscow
Lily Pons
New York
Alice
Lily
Met
Cabbage
Steve Lawrence
Steve Allen
East New York
Brooklyn
Steve
Ane
Carol
Ike
Florida
Marion Marlowe
Pierre's Cotillion Room
Fifth Avenue
Dick Quickie
Las Vegas
Pennsylvania Conference Branch
Women's Society of World Service
Anniversaries and Today in History Highlight Figures
Know America Today's anniversaries recount George Peabody Octave Chanute Charles Emory Smith Louis Tiffany Oscar Odd McIntyre Wendell Wilkie and a Today in History slate including Chisholm v Georgia Know-Nothing Party Jefferson Davis inauguration and Fort Sumter flag raising with Real Estate note.
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George Peabody
England
Atlantic
Peabody
Mass
London
Octave Chanute
Chicago
Wright Brothers
France
Charles Emory Smith
Philadelphia
Russia
McKinley
Mansfield
Conn
Louis C. Tiffany
New York
Famous
Jewelry House
O. QO
Oscar Odd McIntyre
Plattshurch
Wendell L. Wilkie
Indiana
Elmwood
Ind
Georgia
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
United States
Fort Sumter
National Real Estate
Association forms in Nashville and notable anniversaries
A Nashville association forms as 18 Lee de Forest patents the audion vacuum tube. Items note Allied actions in Africa in 1943 and U S aid figures in 1947 1948 1954. Birthdays include Homer Folks Marjorie Nicolson Edward Arnold Adolph Menjou Dimitry Mitropoulos James Mooney. Horoscope highlights a lover of good works with persuasive traits.
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Nashville
Tenn
Lee de Forest
U. S
Rommel
North Africa
China
Truman
Congress
United States
Britain
France
Red China
Korea
Indo- China
Homer Folks
Yonkers
N. Y
Hanover
Mich
Marjorie H Nicolson
Columbia Univ . Graduate School
Edward Arnold
New York
Adolph Jean Menjou
Durch
Pittsburgh
Dimitry Mitrop
Native leader with mixed fortunes in law and service
The passage portrays a native as a natural organizer and potential lawyer or military officer. It notes strong leadership qualities but warns of poor luck in amassing wealth, implying a career focused on service or principle over profit.
Clarksburg Man Injured In Muddy Highway Crash
A Clarksburg man, Charles A. Cross, 42, was hospitalized at Frederick Memorial Hospital after his car skidded on a muddy shoulder of Maryland Route 121 near Clarksburg and struck a public utilities pole. Rescue crews arrived around 5:43 p.m. to aid him. investigators said no charges will be filed. He suffered a severe chin laceration and chest pains, with surgery and X rays planned.
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Clarksburg
Marylan
Hyattstown Vfd Rescue
Charles A. Cross
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Cross
Montgomery County
State 121
Execution Scene Described in Source Text
The article notes a wreck on a muddy shoulder of a thoroughfare near Kings Park with a shattered power pole. Potomac Edison Co. crews were summoned to replace the pole after police called them to the scene. The text then describes Butt Pattamasirind and Chit Singhaseni being led into an execution compound with arms tied to a cross bar. Each prisoner faced a hearth mound behind a black curtain, with an executioner armed with a submachine gun and a target mark on the cloth indicating the heart.
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King’s Park
Potomac Edison Co
Butt Pattamasirind
Chit Singhaseni
Three men lashed to a cross in Bangkok incident
In Bangkok on February 17, three men were lashed to a cross behind a black curtain as part of punishment linked to the 1946 royal affair involving King Anandha Mahidol. The executed were Chaliew Pathumires, a personal secretary to the King, and two royal pages.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Young
Anandha Mahidol
Chaliew
Pathumires
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