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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
18
Health officials probe 37 paratyphoid fever cases spread across Lancaster area. Most victims children, three in critical condition. County medical examiner says milk from the same dairy is the only common factor. Dairy owner suspends bottling. two days needed for deeper analysis.
Downtown shows feature The Tender Trap with Frank Sinatra, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing with Ray Milland and Joan Collins, Illegal with Edward G Robinson, Cattle Queen with Barbara Stanwyck, The Sea Chase with John Wayne, Mad at the World with Frank Lovejoy, Battle Cry with Van Heflin, Swampland Savagery, Hondo, A Star Is Born, Guns That Won the West and Bring You Smile Along with Frankie Lane in various theaters including Ector Lyric Rio Broncho Twin Cactus Twin Terrace Plains.
Hollywood gossip notes Bing Crosby plans to donate his big percentage of the new film Anything Goes to Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington. The gift may exceed 500000 and is said to have been approved by the U S income tax department. Other items include James Dean winning acting votes over Marlon Brando and Jack Webb planning a Dragnet TV series with Ben Alexander.
Imogene Coca discusses quitting a NBC TV contract worth 100000 a year for nine years and returning to night clubs. She cites calculated moves and new TV projects with Max Liebman Sid Caesar and Steel Hour while plans to diversify beyond television.
Hollywood reports Pat O'Brien secured a tax court ruling in a $206000 case. He reported his Terneene Production assets as a capital gain rather than personal income, according to attorney Frank W Mahoney. The dissolved company dated to 1944.
Hollywood reports comedienne Patricia Bright of CBS It s Always Jan has a broken knee cap from a fall on a wet sidewalk. Producers say she can continue in the role seated for the next four to six weeks.
Aline Mosby surveys Hollywood life in 1955 noting few lavish weddings yet several quiet unions and elopements. Clark Gable Kay Spreckels, Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher, Yvonne de Carlo, Jane Withers and others wed. Wives and husbands split, Rita Hayworth and Linda Christian headline divorces, while deaths of James Dean John Hodiak Carmen Miranda Robert Francis Suzan Ball mark the year’s sad tally.
A detailed hourly page lists KMID TV and KCDB TV program blocks with devotional, movies, news, weather, sports, and classic shows. Notable items include Football of Week and Permian Basin Football, Eddie Cantor, Science Fiction Theatre, and This Is Your Life along with early morning talk and children's segments.
Fragmentary OCR text references Texas News and Candletite Silver Candlelite with no readable event date or outcome. The snippet offers only scattered names and vague mentions, precluding a coherent summary or identifiable entities.
U Honolulu reporters note actress Jane Russell arrived in red wig for Revolt of Mamie Stover filming. She dyed her hair and had eyebrows hennaed to match the new shade.
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