Immy Garroll Heads CBS Radio Show Rising Tenor Spotlight
Virginia Vale notes Immy Garroll, a former department store employee, headlines his CBS show Jimmy Carroll Sings after subbing for James Melton. The piece covers Garroll’s career, Gloria Swanson’s esteem, Ginny Simms radio plans, and radio/film industry movements including DeMille, Deanna Durbin, and NBC Chicago Theater of the Air.
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Immy Garroll
Jimmy Carroll
Jimmy
Ben Yost
Ray Black
Lyn Murray
James Melton
Richard Tucker
John Charles Thomas
Jan Peerce
Tucker
Deanna Durbin
Chicago
NBC
Churchill Refuses Knighthood Keeps Duke Prospects Uncertain
Winston Churchill rejects a knighthood. Randolph Churchill fears a peerage would end his chance at a commoner political career in the House of Commons. The elder Churchill warns against a title that would push the family into the Lords and cut Randolph's future path.
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Winston Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Churchill
House of Lords
Randolph
House of Commons
Attlee Victory Signals Weakening British World Power
Western Newspaper Union reports that Clement Attlee’s Labour victory signals Britain’s reduced world role. Britain’s navy and economy are weakened, Bretton Woods ties sustain trade, and Attlee’s plan favors state control and higher wages over expansion of coal, power, or industry.
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Washington
Limehouse Slums
Britain
Empire
Clement Attlee
Bank of England
Churchill International
Attlee Labor Party
Russia
Churchill
Attlee
Bretton Woods
Canada
Australia
Labor
The Braves World Series Run and Pitching Theory
The article recounts the 1914 Boston Braves pennant and World Series win over Connie Mack's Athletics, highlighting Dick Rudolph Tyler and James as key pitchers. It argues for heavy innings, pitching every third day, and sustained conditioning as the path to mastery, comparing early greats to modern arms and urging more work to build strength and control.
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Boston Braves
Connie Mack
Athletics
Braves
George Stallings
Rudolph
Tyler
James
Tyler James
Rudolph Tyler
Mackmen
Dick Rudolph
Ed Walsh
Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Christy Mathewson
Grover Alexander
Carl Hubbell
Bob Feller
Alexander
Mathewson
Hal Newhouser
Dizzy Trout
Bill Voiselle
Giants
John Siddall
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Cecil B. DeMille
Paramount
Gloria Swanson
Ginny Simms
Charles Coburn
Robert Paige
Jerry Wayne
Betty Hutton
Pacific
Germany
RKO
America
Dan Duryea
Jones
Karen Kemple
Annamary Dickey
Karen
Studio A
Eddie Dan
Ray Milland
Muriel
Gale Storm
Monotram
Texas
Sonny Tufts
Hollywood
Rhonda Fleming
Duke Churchill
War Production Board
Pearl Harbor
Auto Boys
Big Business
Cap” Krug
WPB
Harold Boeschenstein
New War
John Snyder
Mississippi River
Harold Ickes
Jim Patton
Denver
Farmers Union
Bob Kerr
Oklahoma
Truman
Harold the Ick
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Amur Bay
Muravief Promontory
Ulysses Cove
Patrocles Bay
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Manchurian
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Phla
Albany
L. 1
Boulder Dam
England
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Pawling
N. Y
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Okinawa
Marion NM. Magruder
Marine Corps
Hemstad
Minneapolis
Minn
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Brookline
Mass
Robert E. Wellwood
Sheridan
Wyo
U. S. Naval Hospital
Arrowhead Springs
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Western Newspaper Union
British Foreign Trade
Asia
W. Churchill
Grantland Rice
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