Wendell Hire Boosts Bill Trainor in Miami Tale
Brenda learns her husband Lee defends Bill Trainor while Calvin Wendell, a Maine magnate, hires Bill as secretary and companion in Miami. A newspaper clipping provokes Brenda to challenge Bill’s supposed superiority, revealing tensions over honesty, money, and social status. The clip suggests Wendell’s trust in Bill despite questions of merit and finances.
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Lee Shepard
Calvin Wendell
Lee
Brenda
Bill
Mr. Wendell
Bill Trainor
Frankton
Maine
Miami
The Farragut Birthday in Hastings on Hudson
Elmo Scott Watson recounts the 140th anniversary of David Glasgow Farragut born July 5 1801 in Knoxville Tenn and linked to Hastings on Hudson N Y The piece traces Farraguts rise from midshipman to admiral highlighting battles at New Orleans Port Hudson Mobile Bay and the creation of the rank of admiral He is honored with statues in Washington D C and New York and a marble tablet in the Church of the Incarnation
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U. S
Hastings
Hudson
N. Y
Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut
United States Navy
Knoxville
Tenn
Washington
John Paul Jones
Isaac Hull
Oliver Hazard Perry
David D. Porter
Essex
England
Mexico
Saratoga
Vera Cruz
Hartford
Mississippi
Fort Jackson
Fort St. Philip
New Orleans
Napoleon III
France
Port Hudson
Gen. N. P. Banks
Abraham Lincoln
Mobile Bay
Mobile
New York
Congress
Portsmouth
N. H
Army War Games and Belasco Lead Broadway Link
A feature on General McNair shaping army war games for real combat realism and Belasco’s promotion, plus a profile of Russell Varian and Sigurd Varian whose Klystron radio beam aided aviation and led to a marriage to biochemist Jane Martinson. The piece ties military theatricals to scientific innovation and a wedding tale in New York society.
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York
Pain
Belasco
Lesley James McNair
General Headquarters
Chanteaay
Russell Varian
Sigurd
Russell Varlan
Stanford
Pan-American Airways
Russell
Halcyon
David L. Webster
Department of Physics
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
Sperry Gyroscope Co
Sperry
Garden City
Long Island
New York
Jane Martinson
Bessie Beatty
Betty and
Bin
Nineteenth Street
Adolph Berle
Miss Beatty
New England
Bird Doctor Treats 200000 Patients in Three Decades
Los Angeles woman Idella G Manisera claims to have prescribed for at least 200000 avian patients in 30 years. She treated hummingbirds to pea fowls, performed a bone tumor operation on an African gray parrot, and runs an Old Ladies Home sanctuary for rescued birds near Los Angeles.
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Idella G. Manisera
Los Angeles
California
Manisera
Glass Writing Board Improves School Room Illumination
A report to the American Chemical Society describes a glass writing board that comes in various colors to enhance school room appearance. It reflects very little light, works well with chalk or crayon, and has a permanent finish that won’t develop a polished reflecting surface with use.
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American Chemical Society
Hollywood Roundup of Casting and Careers in 1940s
Actress debates over who should play Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls with Paulette Goddard or Ingrid Bergman favored. Ginger Rogers signs for RKO films and Orson Welles to write produce and direct his next project. Victor Mature courted by Fox, Raymond Hatton returns with DeMille, and other industry notes include Marsha Hunt promotion and USO actor appearances.
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Orson Welles
RKO Radio
Welles
Camera Lies And Tricks In Photo Series
A photographer can compel the camera to utter any tale using wide angle lenses mirrors and multiple exposures. This series showcases convincing camera lies and features Dorothy Edwards, queen of the Pasadena Rose Parade, transformed into a fairy queen by cunning tricks.
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Dorothy Edwards
Pasadena
Calif
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Western Newspaper Union
D. G. Farragut
Who's
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WIN
Roosevelt
Army Belasco
Field Artillery
Minnesota
West Point
Perchance Radio
Virginia Vale
Ginger Rogers
RKO
Rio
Fred Astaire
Kitty Foyle
Tom, Dick and
Harry
Joseph Pasternack
Deanna Durbin
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Kathryn Grayson
Deanna
Hollywood
Victor Mature
Twentieth Century-Fox
Hal Roach
Bowery Nightingale
Alice Faye
Raymond Hatton
de Mille
Hatton
W. 8. van Dyke
Marine Corps
Manhattan
Motion Picture Studios
Paramount
Bing Crosby
Mary Martin
Carolyn Lee
Brian Donlevy
Bob Hope
Madeleine Carroll
West Indies
Wayne Morris
Navy Department
the Smiling Ghost
Warnerros
NBC
Ted Steele
John Scott Trotter
Metro
Marsha Hunt
Hollowcd Stars Broadcasting
Charles Posner
The
United Service Organizations
Max Baer
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Newark Yankees
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