Lou Nova turns comic in a comeback as nightclub act
Retired heavyweight Lou Nova, once earning about $500000, seeks a new career as a nightclub comedian. He notes his family’s musical background, recalls 85 pro fights with 4 losses by KO, and explains money erosion by taxes and inflation. He believes boxing is as honest as other professions and reflects on past fame and future.”
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Hal Boyle
New York
Lou Nova
Frank Fay
Lou
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Ring
Adonis
Joe Louis
Louis
Rocky Marciano
Marciano
Low
Nova
Flashbulb craze and safe usage tips for cameras
A column traces the rapid rise of the flashbulb in cameras from simple boxes to expensive models. It warns amateurs of overexposure and motion blur, and explains DIY light control with cloth coverings. It notes bulb speeds Class M and Class F and promotes Hiltner Roelee Frederick Camera Shop in Frederick, Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiltner-Roelee Frederick
West Patrick St. Frederick
Maryland
Vote Down Proposal To Centralize Power
A narrow majority of the United Lutheran Church convention defeated a plan to grant the executive board interim power to act between biennial conventions. Delegates voted 291 to 237 against the centralization move seen as key to a 118 point reorganization. Dr. Clarence C. Stoughton argued it would move away from democracy, while supporters said it would ensure continuity and coordination. In other news, a faulty signal at Lime Kiln crossing caused traffic delays on U.S. 15 as crews worked to restore operation. Airman Emory B. Bowie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emors Bowie, is stationed at Sampson Air Force Base. Mrs. Samuel Hopkins, Baltimore society figure, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
United Lutheran Church Convention
Clarence C. Stoughton
Wittenberg College
Springfield
Ohio
Stoughton
Paul H. Ara
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sampson Air Force Base
Geneva
Emory B. Bowie
Air
Emors Bowie
South Court Street
Bowie
Air Force
3545
Sampson
AF Training Command
Three Beaten to Death in East Harlem Tenement
In a volatile New York incident on October 8, Benito Maldonados, 31, a Puerto Rican boarding in a cheap East Harlem tenement, battered a child, her grandmother, and a young girl to death with a television set and chairs. He placed money on the bodies as a charm and claimed others wanted him to marry a dog before police overpowered him. The four-room apartment showed horrific violence. Maldonados had recently moved to the fifth-floor unit from Puerto Rico about 18 months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harlem
Benito Rivera Maldonados
Puerto Rico
Isabel Rodriguez
Scelba Wins Wide Confidence Vote In Italy Yugoslavia Pact
Rome and Belgrade regimes move forward on Trieste settlement as Scelba's four party coalition backs the deal 122 to 89. Yugoslavia's Federal Executive Council approves the agreement dividing Trieste. Yugoslav Parliament to act around Oct 20. US convoy pulls out 123 vehicles heading to Leghorn for redeployment. Italian forces to take Zone A by Oct 21. Zone B remains under Yugoslav control.
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Rome
Loyal Movement
Trieste
Tthe
Bril
Leghorn
Halysy
Maryland firm aims for new plant after Kent Co. blast
Local citizens subscribed over $30,000 for a proposed 2ndacre site plant after a Kent Manufacturing Co. wreck in last July’s explosion. J B Whitworth of the Chestertown Businessmen’s Assn. announced a $350,000 goal to build facilities attracting new industries, with local banks likely to match funds. In training news at Norfolk two Maryland men, George T Rippeon and Navy Ens. Jack G Smith, participated aboard LST craft during the amphibious exercise, the largest since World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent Manufacturing Co
J. B. Whitworth
Chestertown Businessmen’s Assn
Whitworth
Vonsainiy
Jay
Cxtrciat
Norfolk
FHENC
Mount Airs
George T. Rippeon
USN
John Rippeon
Navy
Ens
Dack G. Smith
Henry N. Smith
Madeline J. Buhrman
Graveham, Md
Washington School Attendance Normal amid walkouts and protests
Washington area schools reported normal attendance with ongoing student demonstrations mixing whites and Negroes in classrooms subsiding. Principal Charles Bish and Superintendent Hobart Corning outlined plans to ease tensions, require parent notes for absentees, and delay pupil shifts until February due to boundary changes.
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Eastern
Charles &. Bish
McKinley
Bish
Hobart M. Corning
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Tenance
Hopkins
Baltimore
Samuel Hopkins
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Northy Airlinough
Manila
J. Dorsey Gaither
Unionville
Washington
North Western Orient
Mary Frances Onnen
Chicago
Gaithers
Onunen
Gaither
Scelba
Philip Hiteshew, Welding
S. Bentz St
Monocacy Oil Company
Frederick, Md
Frederick
Dynaphone
Otarion
Audivox
Patrick
Market ST
W. Patrick ST
Dee
Richie Finance Company
Ritchie Finance Corp
South Market Street
Bingaman
Don Bostian
U.S
Thurmont
Life Insurance
Renee
At Finance CO
East Patrick ST
Monument 2
Robert C. Schutz III
YES Manager
The
Fidelity and Deposit Co
U. A
Lough & Sun
S. Market St
Washington School
Service Modern Pharmacy
Pearre
George M. Chapline, Jr
House OF Delegates
Stgrm & Shipley
North Market St
Corner
Siegler
Routzahn & Sons
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