British Navy Secrets and Hollywood Notes In Brief
Gossip columnists discuss Mountbatten’s naval secret promise of a sea saga for newspapers, Eddy Duchin’s isolationist take, and a Moscow censor quibble over an American idiom. Also included are anecdotes from reporters on trials, critics’ quips, and March of Time coverage of naval aviation in Sailors With Wings.
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Louis Mountbatten
Illustrious
Mountbatten
Seymour Berkson
Int’l] News
Moscow
Stalin
Veronicas Plunging Neckline and Tights Stir Film Fashion
Veronica Lake’s debut sparked chatter over plunging necklines once again as fashion watchers compare her look to Dorothy Lamour. In This Gun for Hire she is set to wear tights for a nightclub entertainer role prompting talk of wardrobe choices. Eleanor Powell’s new tap routine in I’ll Take Manila promises wireless operators a coded signal in the taps.
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Veronica Lake
Veronica
Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood
Eleanor Powell
Manila
Yankees still in prime as AL clubs fret over repeat threat
American League clubs worry how to stop the Yankees next season. Yankee stars age 23 to 34, with DiMaggio 27 and Gordon 26 leading a still young core under Joe McCarthy. Other clubs baffled as New York dominates both leagues and rivals.
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Yankees
Ty Cobb
Grantland Rice
DiMaggio
Gordon
Killer Keller
Henrich
Rizzuto
Sturm
Bonham, Russo
Donald and
Breuer
Joe McCarthy
Baseball and showbiz notes from the era mix in a winter roundup
The piece weighs in on Joe Gordon and other baseball greats, compares him to legends like Lajoie Collins Hornsby and Frisch, and notes his strong defense. It also shares a movie tidbit about Glenn Ford in Martin Eden and announces Shirley Temple signing four CBS Christmas programs for $50,000.
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John C. Knox
Nick Schenck
MGM
Hizzoner
Lajoie
Eddie Collins
Hornsby
Bill Hanna
Ed Delehanty
Wagner
Frank Frisch
Gordon
Glenn Ford
Martin Eden
San Francisco
Honolulu
Shirley Temple
CBS
Third Basemen And World Series Oddities
The piece lists top third basemen like Jimmy Collins Bill Bradley Buck Weaver and Red Rolfe noting Collins is a .330 hitter and Weaver near the top. It cites Yankees efficiency in six to eight world series titles and mentions film industry and other names in a broad notes section with anecdotes from Oscar Levant Berwyn Gene Autry Jeanette McDonald Milton Berle Mickey Owen and Joe DiMaggio comments on Casey’s curve and Henrich.
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Jimmy Collins
Boston
Bill Bradley
Cleveland
Buck Weaver
White Sox
Paramount
Oscar Levant
Berwyn
Okla
Gene Autrey
Jeanette McDonald
Nelson Eddy
Milton Berle
Mickey Owen
Joe DiMaggio
Casey
Tommy Henrich
Tommy
Stars of Stripes Quilt Delights With Eight-Pointed Stars
Attractive white and blue Stars of Stripes quilt features easy piecing. Only 20 blocks needed, diagonal setting, narrow border, about 90 by 110. Includes accurate cutting guide with yardages and directions for order 79380, 15 cents. Send orders to:
Youth Dreams So Beautiful in Its Bright Illusions
A reflective note on youth celebrating its beauty dreams and bright illusions through hopeful imagery.
Waterways link to city streets in European ports
Collier's notes Water Venice with 118 islands and 378 bridges and adds Ghent with 26 islands and 297 bridges and Amsterdam with 96 islands and 290 bridges as examples of cities whose streets are waterways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Collier’s
Ghent
Amsterdam
Raleigh jingle contest invitation and prize note
An advertisement invites entrants to a Raleigh jingle contest with liberal prizes and directs readers to the Raleigh ad in this paper for details.
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Raleigh
Equal Right To Use Land Proclaimed By Existence
A literary quotation asserts that equal access to land mirrors the universal right to breathe air. It argues that existence grants inherent rights, not privileges for some. The piece emphasizes shared human entitlement.
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Henry George
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue or pen
A brief quip attributed to Car lyle about restraint in speech and writing, warning against freewheeling commentary.
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Carlyle
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Geo
B. Shaw
Wm. Lyon Phelps
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Lawes
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Mags
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Route 22
Never Inn
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Richard de Rochemont
March of Time
Vatican
Vatican I
Sailors With
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Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
William Malcolm Dickey
Arkansas Bill
Dickey
Buddy Rosar
Red Rolfe
Ruffing
Gomez
Priddy
Newark
Kansas City
Bannister
Barbara Bannister
Carolyn Lee
Bing Crosby
Barbara Stanwyck
Bob Burns
Burns
Joe Gordon
Hot Stove League
Nap Lajoie
Rogers Hornsby
RKO
Long Island
RKO Pathe
Collins
Buck
Cacarettes
U.S.A
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Big Ben Smoking Tobacco
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp
Louisville
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P. O
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Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Raleigh Cigarettes
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