Hepburn and Holden Win In Academy Awards Night
Hollywood reports Audrey Hepburn and William Holden won top Oscars for 1953. From Here to Eternity led with eight awards including supporting wins for Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed, with Disney sweeping four prizes. Hepburn accepted in New York. Holden celebrated in the lobby after his win.
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Hollywood
Audrey Hepburn
William Holden
Frank Sinatra
Donna Reed
Fred Zinneman
Dan Taradash
New York
Hepburn
Arnheim
Ondine
Holden
O'Fallon, I
Disney
Columbia Pictures Corp
William Lyon
Burnett Guffey
Shane
Loyal Griggs
Roman Holiday
Ian McLellan Hunter
Alfred Newman
Lili
Bronislau Kaper
Sammy Fain
Paul Francis Webster
Edith Head
Paramount
the Robe
Charles le Maire
Emile Santiago
Julius Caesar
Cedric Gibbons
Edward Carfagno
Lyle Wheeler
George W. Davis
Walter M. Scott
Paul &. Fox
Mayor's Wife Robbed Of $20 In Her Purse
City Police hunt pickpockets after a volunteer Red Cross worker loses twenty dollars from her purse in the Frederick County Chapter Red Cross offices on West Second Street. Mrs. Donald B. Rice says the pocketbook was unattended on a desk as workers aided the drive. Police broadcast a manhunt for several suspects. internals note the incident during a fund raiser.
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Frederick County
Red Cross
Donald B. Rice
Frederick
War
West Second Street
Braden Claims Young Soviets Pull Wires in State Dept
Former assistant secretary of state Spruille Braden testified before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that young Soviets are still pulling wires in the State Department and may be under the thumb of Communists. He warned of state interventionists and do-gooders who become puppets, and said cleansing the department requires removing them. Braden noted the top echelons have not changed his view that policy makers remain the same.
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Washington
Spruille Braden
State Department
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Braken
Braden
New York
John M. Butler
R-Md
Eisenhower
Sen
Jenner
Riad
Colombia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cuba
Argentina
Juan Peron
Peron
Farm Bureau Meeting Series Planned Across County Next Week
Frederick County Farm Bureau secretary Thomas Anderson lists a five day schedule to discuss American Farm Bureau policies adopted in Chicago last December. Monday events at Adams town Grange Hall and Thurmont Firemen's Hall feature chairmen Harry B. Kallede and Merrii H. Ramsburg. Tuesday gathers Emmitsburg High School and Walkersville High School with G B Springer and George C Stauffer as chairs. Thursday venues include New Market School and Middletown Fire Hall under Walter E Burall and Noah Kefanger Jr. Friday events at Frederick YMCA led by Harold M Free.
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Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau
Chicago
Thomas §. Anderson
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Grange Hall
Adamstown
Harry B. Kallede
Thurmont
Merrii H. Ramsburg
Emmitsburg High School
G. B. Springer
Walkersville High School
George C. Stauffer
New Market School
Walter E. Burall
Middletown
Noah. Kefanger, Jr
Frederick Y
Senate Labor Panel Halts Taft-Hartley Revision Work
Senate Labor Committee chairman Ho Alexander Smith of New Jersey halted sessions on Taft-Hartley revision awaiting White House views on federal versus state labor jurisdiction. The delay affects crafting amendments while administration factions debate states rights and the law’s primacy over state laws in labor matters.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
White House
Ho Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Tomomorrow
Supreme Court
Smith and Son
Goldwater 'Rariz
Eisenhower
Congress
Labor Mitchell
Smith
Production of Color TV Sets Is Launched
Bloomington, Indiana March 25 RCA launched commercial color television production and NBC planned to triple color programming by year end 1954. RCA’s first set is an open face console with a Winch triple color tube, 12 inch picture, priced at 1000 dollars. RCA aims to produce 5,000 15 inch sets and 5,000 19 inch sets in 1954, with 19-21 inch sets to follow in 1955. Industry demand is forecast to exceed supply this year and next, rising toward five million sets annually by 1958. Early sets will appeal to luxury buyers, shipping next week and going on sale mid-April in 35 cities with color signals.
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Bloomington
Ind
Radio Corp. of America
National Broadcasting Co
RCA
Wusewu BD
Dilwa
Caccuke
Pioneer
Senate Cuts Excise Taxes Sharp relief on household items
The Senate approved a broad excise tax cut package totaling about 1.034 billion dollars, shaving rates on household appliances from 10 to 4 percent and nearly eliminating taxes on admissions tickets under 60 cents. The measure preserves some levies on liquor, tobacco, cabarets, and firearms, with two large reductions later tied to conference with the House.
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Washington
Senate
Chamber
Eyre D-Val
Sen
Byrd
House
Eisenhower
Treasury
Congress
Senate House
Support In Kent Claimed For Byrd In Kent
Campaign headquarters for H C Byrd announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor has drawn support from Kent County commissioners state senator and several incumbent officials. The endorsement came from a meeting of about 200 leaders including Commissioners Julian W Hurtt J Thomas Kibler Percy M Hepburn county officials W Paul Joiner and Ben Dardin. The Mahoney camp announced Howard County backing led by Jerome A Loughran.
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Baltimore
H. C. Byrd
Kent County
Julian W. Hurtt
J. Thomas Kibler
Percy M. Hepbrow
John R. Jewell
Robert B. Harris
W. Paul Joiner
Register of Wills
Ben Dardin
Orphans Court
George P Mahoney
Howard County
Jerome A. Loughran
C. Ferdinand Sybert
Byrd
Loughran
History of Ox Fibre Brush Company Told at Lions Meeting
Melvin H Partridge outlined Ox Fibre Brush Company growth from 1880 origins to a two-plant operation. Frederick plant valued at about 4.5 million dollars with 41 workers, Florida plant about 850 thousand and 90 workers. The firm ships 15 to 20 million brushes yearly across 19 sales territories and 16 offices, with 1953 sales around 5 million dollars, double 1945. Guests included Walter Larkin and others. The talk also noted time concepts, sidereal and solar, and their use.
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Frederick
Melvin H Partridge
Brush Company
Noel H. Gross
Partridge
Robinson
McClinland
William D. Lipps
Harry G. Leichert
George van Fossen
Florida
Frederick Ox Fibre Brush Company
U. S
Walter B. Larkin
S .Croyle
C. C. C. Thomas
Roger Gobbell
Joseph Comiskey
Fred S. Kramer
Harry Powell
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East Patrick St
Xarras Orman
Better Homes Equip Co
E. Patrick St
Kent
Iburall
M. L. Summers Frederick, Md
Sam Miller
South Market Street
Frederick Tropical Aquarium
Western Maryland Trust Company
Frederick, Aid
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Dailey’s Funeral Home
N. Market St
Monument
Frederick, Md
J. R. Lillard & Son
Poolesville
Betty Lou’s Dance Studio
Brunswick, Maryland
BNA] Brith
Smoke Shop
Church St
Betty Lou
Potomac St
Brunswick
Maryland
Kehne Furn. CO
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Economy Oil CO
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