Coast to Coast Gossip and Celebrity mentions
Walter Pidgeon and Doro McGuire feature in light celebrity notes with make up stunts and club chatter. Galen Drake now commentates on 205 ABC stations. Dixie Inn in Dobbs Ferry attracts stars while Dr Harber of Seminole delivered many babies for little pay.
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Winchellebrities
Walter Pidgeon
Dorothy McGuire
Edgar Bergen
Fray
Edgar
Galen Drake
ABC
Dixie Inn
Dobbs Ferry
Sherman Billingsley
Enid
Okla
Harber
Seminole
Mr. Stork Club
Russians, Molotov Help U S in Marshall Plan Strategy
State department insiders privately note that Molotov has inadvertently aided the United States by the Marshall plan. They worry about possible inclusion of Russia and satellites and the lack of a congressional OK, which could have drawn strong opposition if money flowed to Yugoslavia Bulgaria or Hungary.
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Washington
Russia
U. S
State Department
Molotov
United States
Senator Vandenberg
State Marshall
Europe
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Legation
Hungary
Cast of Kerrickters Portraits A Quirky City Parade
A wavering vignette lists names like Aunt Je mima a portly mammy in bandanna and flax who walks east Fifty-Seventh Street with five white poodles. Mother Mahree a bent widow who delivers telegrams to Sutton Place residents is described as the once beautiful stockmarket widow who died by her own hand. Oklahoma Sue in ranch attire books horses while Champagne Charlie a Broadway figure orders champagne for meals and hates water.
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Kerrickters
Jemima
Fifty-Seventh Street
Mother Mahree
Sutton Place
Oklahoma Sue
Charlie
Stage Door A Roundup of Broadway and TV Biz News
The column surveys top stage hits and film transitions from Tobacco Road to Life with Father and Abie’s Irish Rose, notes a financier’s son underwriting Broadway costs, cites Ethel Barrymore’s earnings, and reports assorted media and political tidbits from Washington to Hungary. It mentions George White’s Scandals, Klansmen nominations, Nagy’s ABC appearance prep, and other entertainment notes.
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Tobacco Road
Abie
Ethel Barrymore
George White
Go North Young Man Go North Lemke’s Alaska Push
Congressman Lemke of North Dakota proposes a new slogan to populate Alaska. He urges “Go North, Young Man, Go North” to lift Alaska’s population by two million in 30 years to counter Soviet claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Lemke
North Dakota
Horace Greeley
Lemke
Alaska
Moscow
Weather, Wheat and Power: The Global Grain Balance
The weatherman may influence Secretary of State Marshall's policy as US crops falter while Russia's wheat and rye crops rise. The US faces record wheat but weaker other grains, and Russia is projected to export about 300 million bushels of wheat and 840 million bushels of rye, creating a potential surplus and geopolitical leverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Russia
Agriculture Department
Air Pilots Pay Controversy Tied to Crash Rates
Government critics say pilots pay drives excessive flying hours and risk. Across the United States base monthly wages range from 185 to 300 dollars, with extra earnings tied to flight hours, prompting debate over whether a guaranteed annual wage could reduce crashes without reducing work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics
TWA
U. S
Fruit Preserving and Canning Tips for Home Gardeners
Practical guidance for canning fruit and berries with water bath or pressure cooker. Noting equipment checks, jar prep, packing, syrup ratios, and processing times by fruit type. Also includes quick tips from Lynn on kitchen hacks and a Washington political column on federal finances and Taft Hartley issues.
Mile a Minute Cloth and Kitten Potholders Pattern Sale
Crochet pattern notices offer Mile a Minute Cloth Pattern No 5313 for 20 cents with instructions and color band options for a large cloth. Also Kitten Potholders Pattern No 5321 for 20 cents with embroidering chart and actual size for kitchen gifts.
Einstein on a sick world and mass mindedness
A friend visiting Albert Einstein at Princeton finds the physicist in bed and ill. Einstein says he is sick but the world is sicker and that matters. He warns that military mass-mindedness once in Germany is resurfacing in the present nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Einstein
Princeton
Einstein
Germany
Grasshoppers Create Striped Glacier Near Cook Mont
Millions of grasshoppers swarmed Grasshopper Glacier near Cook Montana. Winds carried the insects aloft and frigid air dropped them into a pit where snows covered them. Repeated swarms left black bands of frozen insects up to 60 feet deep that may still be visible today.
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Grasshopper
Cook
Mont
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