Broadway Electrics Memo Riff On Sinatra Plans And Nightlife
A jumble of notes on midcentury media chatter covers plans to damage Sinatra’s career, Sally Rand’s Greenwich Village run, Joe Louis club repurposing, Longchamps price, and tax quirks around Sonja Henie. It weaves Broadway gossip, theater folk rosters, and public figures with a brisk, salon-style tone.
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Sinatra
Sally Rand
Greenwich Village Inn
Sally
Joe Louis
125Th Street
Longchamps
Sonja Henie
Oceanside
Calif
Lin Yutang
Yank Sing
The
Lindberghs
Rogers’ Corner
Joe Rogers
Bert Lahr
Lahr
Duke Cross
Wellington & Cross
Elizabeth Arden
Billy B. van
Newport
N. H
Oscar Shaw
Gettysburg
Harry Fender
St. Louis
Harry Fox
Millership Sisters
Board of Education
Chicago
Jim Mulden
Mullen & Coogan
Draft Truman meetings and alien crackdown debates
Democratic leaders meet with President Truman in the White House to push a Draft Truman drive while exploring publicity for Margaret Truman singing at the 1948 Democratic convention. Congress weighs alien fingerprinting and Communist registration amid Moscow diary excerpts and embassy security notes.
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Truman
Washington
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
Harry Truman
White House
Emma Guffey Miller
Margaret Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Gates
Congress
United States
Gerhardt Eisler
USA
Ussr
South Dakota
Karl Mundt
House un-American Activities Committee
FBI
House un-American Committee
Communist Party
Moscow
Spasso House
Bedell Smith
Jimmie Byrnes
Joe Davies
Quick Chocolate Cookies In Minutes
These cookies bake and frost quickly and please children and guests alike. The note mentions rationed commodities still present but easing and a sugar bowl that is not as full as desired yet sweets remain possible while saving for canning if careful.
Sweet Tooth and Savings: Recipes and Prices in One Column
A mix of cookie recipes for Molasses and Chocolate Frosted Cookies and French Pear pie hints. The piece moves to notes on soaring living costs, quotes price shocks for bread, shoes and labors, and echoes a consumer perspective on inflation and groceries.
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Chicago Exchange
Chicago
Truman
Greece
Pleasing Variety In Everyday Foods And Inflation Rants
A readers column mixes pie recipes and kitchen tips with social commentary on rising costs and housing plans. The writer mentions lemon juice flavoring, fruit pie pairings, lattice tops, and pastry tips, then shifts to rent, parking, salaries, and federal job cuts in Washington amid inflation fears.
Lynn Chambers Menu and Strawberry Pie Recipe
Lynn Chambers offers a vegetable platter with asparagus cauliflower tomatoes and corn toasted English muffins deviled eggs molded grapefruit salad and a beverage. A strawberry pie recipe is provided.
Wee-waisted junior frock for graduation and dates
Pattern No. 8111 offers a teen frock with a wee-waisted silhouette and a dirndl skirt. Dainty lace or ruffles trim brief sleeves, suited for June graduation and summer dating. Sizes 11 to 18 with material details for size 12 included.
Largest jigsaw puzzle ever made by New York firm
A New York firm created the largest jigsaw puzzle about a decade ago for a wealthy customer. It contained around 10,000 pieces and sold for 1500 dollars, roughly twenty times the size and about one hundred fifty times the cost of the average adult puzzle today.
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New York
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Broadway Electrics
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William O. Douglas
Lowell Mellett
FDR
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U. S
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Burns and Allen
Fibber and
Molly
Ed Gardner
Amos
N’ Andy
Benny
H. Paul Warwick
Ad Exec
Mike Sloane
Gertrude Niesen
Gary Cooper
Collyer
Waterbury
Conn
Punch
Dan Parker
Capp
Li’l Abner
Didier
Stephen Feester
G.i.s
Brute Killian
Purple Heart
Lichfield
Russia
Charles Dickens
House
Senate
Peter Marshall
Jesus
Pau Mallon
Western Newspaper Union
Lynn
Potomac
Byrd
Lynn Chambers
Abron Casy
Nba
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Fleischmann
Cornhusker
Lincoln, Nebraska
A. Q. Schimmel
Moneying
She A. L. Lew
Reident Menager
Schimmel
Tseas
Lincoln
Nebraska
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