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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1948
Page
10
A cryptic clipping lists numerous crossword style clues and fragmented phrases. Names, numbers, and abbreviations appear with no coherent story or clear event. The readable portion hints at a feature page with puzzles or quiz style entries rather than a news item.
Chicago’s only woman life master Mrs Mildred Cunningham achieves a four no trump contract by misdirecting opponents with a clever false card. The hand features her play as North, testing the diamond heart and spade threats to prevent East from shifting. Also notes Baltimore and Ohio Railroad income drop in January comparison.
A jumble of network listings shows ABC WMAL MBS and CBS WFMD stations with a long sequence of programs and repeats. Items include news broadcasts, sports, musical programs, famous personalities, drama and variety shows, late night talk, and dance hours across multiple time slots.
The Maryland Ayrshire Breeders Association held its Seventeenth Annual Convention at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with over 100 breeders and guests from Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania and Canada. Officers were elected including Philip Knatz as president and Walter Hahn Paul Marlin and Beatrice Crisel in key posts. Conklin urged dairy herd improvements and noted high beef prices have reduced dairy cows. Highlights included an illustrated lecture on reducing waste and improving cattle conformation.
Miss Annie Melvin a Crisfield Md retiree guessed Baltimore police charity radio program clues correctly identifying Mrs Chauncey R Tatum president of the Baltimore M C A board of directors as the Voice of Variety on a Variety Club fundraising broadcast for the Police Boys Clubs. She had heard Tatum lecture in 1940 and 1945. In a separate note James Bennett head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons urged abandoning the old Maryland Penitentiary calling it one of the oldest and most unsatisfactory institutions of its kind.
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