Few Famous People Followed Their First-Choice Careers
HAL BOYLE notes teens often abandon early dreams. famous figures like Hitler, Truman, Eisenhower, Churchill might have pursued different paths. Interviews show many later thrived in wholly different fields, suggesting it pays to switch to better options and not cling to a first dream.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Harry S. Truman
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Annapolis
U. S
Winston Churchill
Mickey Spillane
Ed Murrow
Joe Louis
Uncle Sam
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
Imogene Coca
Groucho Marx
Evangelist Billy Graham
Vaughn Monroe
Gloria
Conrad Hilton
Clint Murchison
America
Wally Cox
Sid Caesar
Albert Einstein
Debbie Reynolds
Adraian
Stewart Granger
Nanette Fabray
Oscar Hammerstein
Tony Martin
Martha Raye
Ethel Barrymore
Patti Page
Jean Simmons
Phil Silver
Drew Pearson
Marilyn Monroe
Ladies Home Journal
Docking explores hospital funding for next fiscal year
Gov elect George Docking reviews Kansas state hospitals and potential funding increases at a budget hearing. He urged balancing mental health needs with limited resources and noted taxes will be used to fund the program. Hospital families with means may pay more, current ceiling remains 12 dollars weekly. Dr. Jackson said the state should not lead the program, while Docking pressed for higher rates. Rep. Anderson acknowledged family costs and supported raising the rate as a separate conference on the state hospital building program is planned.
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Topekap
George Docking
Kansas State
Docking
George W. Jackson
Jackson
Robert Anderson
Ottawa
House
Ways and Means
Anderson
Emergency Results From Phone Strike
Portsmouth City Council declared an extraordinary emergency due to telephone service outages since Oct 4 5. It demanded immediate restoration by Ohio Consolidated and authorized City Manager Layton to seek National Guard aid if police cannot maintain order, with guard use contingent on council vote.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co
Robert E. Layton
Ohio National Guard
Harold Frecka
Layton
Scioto County
Communication Workers of America
Ohio Consolidated
Dorsey Death Ruled Accidental
Bridgeport coroner Edgard W. Krentaman said toxicology supported the medical examiner’s finding that Tommy Dorsey died from accidental asphyxiation. Dorsey, found in his Greenwich home November 26, had taken a barbiturate but not in lethal quantity, and an attack of nausea with food lodged in his throat was cited.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Edgard W. Krentaman
Fairfield County
Tommy Dorsey
Dorsey
Greenwich
C. Stanley Knapp
Giraffes Need Dry Ground to Survive
Giraffes must remain on firm terrain as they struggle in rivers and swampy areas, risking bogging down in wet, soft soils.
False alarm led to $125 fine in San Francisco
Municipal Judge James J. Welsh fined Frances Haines $125 for triggering a false fire alarm. The 34 year old housewife, mother of three, said she needed the relaxing sound of fire engines to steady her nerves after a row with her husband.
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San Francisco
James J. Welsh
Frances Haines
Welsh
Missing Mail Pouch Found Unopened in Alabama
A mail pouch with 44000 in one dollar bills missing three months was found unopened and wedged under a wire fence near Sheffield Alabama. Three rabbit hunters Ingram Mitchell 18 William Mitchell 15 and Edward Chamblee 13 of Leighton Alabama recovered the pouch Saturday, said Chief Inspector Emmit T Harding of the Tennessee Alabama postal district.
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Chattanooga
Train money shipment missing on Southern Railway route
Harding doubted the money shipped from Washington to Memphis on the Southern Railway ever reached its destination as the ponch with its lock unopened was found. an assistant, J Q R Sims, said the holder likely decided it was too hot to keep and hid it elsewhere.
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Bama
Mississippi
Washington
Memphis
Harding
J. Q R. Sims
Navy F100 jet crash lands at Smoky Hill base
Lt. Edward W. Foy of George Air Force Base California escaped injury when his Navy F100 jet fighter crash landed at Smoky Hill Air Force Base. Officers attributed the incident to an engine failure during landing approach. Herald Want Ads get results.
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Salina
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Edward W. Foy
George Air Force Base
Victoryville
Calif
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Wiederholt
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Army
Docking Views
Herald
Firestone Stores
S. Main
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Texas
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