Movie moguls eye Gordon MacRae as star material
NBC page turned singing star Gordon MacRae churns toward motion pictures after radio and Broadway work. He'll be heard on 320 stations by May 19 as he pursues film and stage roles amid industry notes from Heidt to Godfrey.
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Gordon MacRae
Gregory Peck
NBC
Horace Heidt
Heidt
Harry James
Les Brown
N. Y. World's Fair
Army Air Forces
CBS
Teentimer
Man and wife clash over office flirtations and double standards
A Portland wife writes of her husband Jerry and his jealous rages at office secretaries while she employs young male assistants. She questions whether his fury at male visitors equals his own casual approach to attractive female coworkers and urges Martha to weigh the parallel in their roles.
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New York
Martha
Sauce for the Gander and the Goose in Marriage
A Portland wife writes Miss Norris about her husband Jerry a tall handsome magnetic office flirt who faces similar temptations as his wife. She uses college boys for help at home and fears his responses but suggests mutual understanding and a shared stance that office and home temptations are balanced by trust and fair limits.
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Portland
Jerry
van Arden
Miss Norris
Be BErHIN ie Be BErHIN ie
Washington editors weigh GOP leadership risks in Congress as Truman pushes union reform and budget cuts. The scorecard shows delays in hearings and conference wrangling ahead, with battles over closed shop limits, industry wide bargaining, and tax relief tied to loans to Europe.
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Washington
Trumanites
Truman
Greece
Senate
House Committee
House
White House
Minnesota
Senator Ball
Congress
Europe
Italy
Wistful Widow of Weare Cap and Other Industry Notes
Universal Pictures acquired The Wistful Widow of Weare Cap for Abbots and Coste Nice, with four shows featured on front pages the day before broadcast. Producer Jin Sheldon forges strong ties in theater as stars attend credits and relationships grow. Cass aley, sister of Paramount’s Veristy, buys antiques and discovers an 1880 clock worth a fine dollar.
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Ernational Pictures
Weare
Abbots and Coste
Harding
Jin Sheldon
Cassaley
Paramount
Veristy
Mother Honored by Catholic Conference in 1947
The National Catholic conference on family life selects Mrs Math Lies of Andale Kansas as Catholic Mother for 1947. She is mother of 14 children, widowed, living on a farm. The conference also releases a letter from President Truman praising the family’s central role in civilization and the church’s contribution to family life.
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Fred Dittman
Highmore
Louisa F. Rehfeld
Warner
South Dakota State College
Dittman
Emil
National Catholic Conference On Family Life
Mra
Math Lies
Andale
Kas
Mra. Lies
Truman
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Western Newpaper Union
Virginia Vale
Phil Baker
William Keighley
Marjorie Reynolds
Seymour Nebenzal
Robert Cummings
Brian Donlevy
Linda
William Spier
William Bendix
George
Gabby
Hayes
Albuquerque
Parks Johnson
Warren
Arthur Godfrey
New Paris
Betty Barclay
Sammy Kaye
Dinah Shore
Lana Turner
Betty Grable
Ingrid Bergman
Gordon Mac Rae
Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
Western Newspaper Union
GOP
England
Redondo Beach
Calif
Oscar
Los Angeles
Frank Tornadone
John Nance Garner
United States
Uvalde, Tex
Margareret
Margaret Truman
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
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