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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1949
Page
3
The piece riffs on a hypothetical White House bath tub collapse and Truman’s misadventures, imagining sensational headlines and public fascination. It shifts to a New Jersey court ruling on overtime for a night watchman and a quip about a man ordered to Wall Street for six months to rest.
The column looks ahead to 1949 MLB pennant races noting expectations for Cleveland, Boston, New York, and Detroit in the American League and Dodgers, Braves, Cardinals, Giants, and Pirates in the National League. It predicts Cleveland and the Dodgers as top clubs with Braves likely strong under Billy Southworth, highlighting early-season optimism and key personnel.
A verse praising Nell Crowell as a devout life keeper whose days become a mosaic of virtues. The poem compares each cherished act to jewels placed in gold, noting prayers patience and faith as gems God will treasure in life and death.
A survey of exhibitors shows westerns top future moneymakers with Metro planning three westerns led by Devil's Doorway starring Robert Taylor now in production. Other studios eye Copper Canyon with Hedy Lamarr, No Escape with Burt Lancaster, and William Tell in Italy. Stampede uses 2500 cattle for a key scene. Rod Cameron notes the vast Texas cattle backdrop. George Burns quarrels with laundry over shirts later worn by daughter Sandra at school.
A glamorous dancer Paula Pauleen is abducted by the Scarlet Gang after leaving an Orpheum theatre. The gang masquerades as a troupe, switches cars, and detains Paula in a rail station while forcing a stop for an impromptu show. The note demands ransom or contract compliance as the escape proceeds.
Paula and a troupe perform a slow dance as a police raid unfolds at a large house in Sarge. Officers arrest eight assailants and seize a servant while Paula’s Morse code tapping reveals her father’s station agent past. The scene ends with Paula fainting and officers rescuing her.
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The writer lists Yankee, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators as early October contenders along with Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. He notes two races are hardest to predict and names Lou Boudreau's Cleveland Indians as top American League hopefuls.
Quiz prompts questions about Columbus landing location in 1492, voter turnout in 1948, vice presidents resignations, uses for a demijohn, length of the longest railway tunnel, and the country of the Battle of Waterloo.
The entries list six facts about a range of topics. It mentions San Salvador in the Bahamas, a sum of about 20 million, John C. Calhoun in 1832, an object described as a wicker enclosed glass or earthenware vessel filled with liquid, the Simpson tunnel spanning 12 miles 560 yards between Switzerland and Italy, and a location in Belgium about 12 miles south of Brussels.
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