Studio Gossip on Garson and wartime film notes
Western Union roundup details Greer Garson in Mrs Miniver and Madame Curie shoot day mishaps and Oscar success. Mentions Nan Wynn Columbia contract and Rhapsody in A Flat. Coastal Command film by RKO, plans for Anna Lee Forever and a Day schedule, Coast guard presence in Culver City. Boxing figures in town. Jean Gabin in talks for US picture with Dudley Nichols and Jean Renoir. Other radio and press notes on Burns and Allen and Ginny Simms.
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Virginia Vale
Western
Union
Jean Gabin
20Th Century-Fox
RKO
Dudley Nichols
Jean Renoir
Peaking Aporis FP Mera
A brief item released by the Western Newspaper Union notes an entry titled Peaking Aporis FP Mera with limited readable text from the source. The fragment provides no clear event, date, or location facts beyond the agency attribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Golf in Wartime Era Shapes Postwar Course Life
The article surveys wartime limits on golf from player ages to tournament cuts, notes shifts to civilian weekend play, and highlights a broader middle-class base. It cites USGA figures on players, courses, caddies, and wages, and argues golf’s growth as a mass sport amid economic restraint.
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PGA
Pinehurst
John H. Duffer
Bobby Jones
Gene Sarazen
Walter Hagen
St. Petersburg
USGA
George Blossom
Joe Dey
Empty Tubes Begin U S Tin Mine Salvage Plan
A government salvage program in Newark, New Jersey recovers tin from squeezed out tubes. The Salvage Institute, a non profit under the Metals Reserve company, processes millions of empty tubes from toothpaste and cosmetics into pure tin daily as part of the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvage Institute
Newark
N. J
Metals Reserve Company
The
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Flying Minute Men keep a coastal watch over submarines
Civil Air Patrol members, about 68,000 in number, flew inside the United States fighting submarines from small single engine planes. They pressed for bombing equipment and faced army restrictions while suffering losses. The patrol reportedly helped deter submarines off the Atlantic coast and earned praise from Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley for supplying their own planes and gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Air Patrol
United States
Army
WPB
Milin
War Department
Civil Air
CAP
Follett Bradley
Army Air Corps
Atlantic
Remembering a World War I I era spring and baseball dreams
A reflective verse recalls a year past when the Yanks Dodgers and Cards headed south and spring training carried hopes amid warlike noise. The poet contrasts baseball stars like DiMaggio Williams and Mize with bombers and shell fire, yearning for another peaceful spring.
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Dodgers
Cards
DiMaggio
Ted Wilams
Johnny Mize
Phillies reformer to rebuild with bold scouting plan
Bill Cox, new Phillies owner, vows to end star sales that drained pennants from Philadelphia. He cites Napoleon Lajoie and Ed Delehanty as era greats and pledges aggressive capital and smart scouting, plus a hustling manager, to restore a competitive, citywide sporting pride.
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Bill Cox
Phillies
Napoleon Lajoie
Ed Delehanty
Grover Alexander
Bill Killefer
Red Doom
Beauty Bancroft
Bucky Walters
Kirby Higby
Claude Passeau
Dolph Camilli
Sherry Magee
Dick Bartell
Spud Davis
Chuck Klein
National League
Giants
Cubs
Reds
Dodgers
Philly
Benjamin Franklin
William Penn
Cox
Delehanty
Bobby Lowe
Lou Gehrig
Philadelphia
Lajoie
Larry
Cleveland
Charlie Somers
Pennsylvania
Charlie Dryden
Athletics
Connie
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Nan Wynn
Columbia
British Coastal Command
Coastal Command
Anna Lee
BEKO
Robert Haymes
Ireland
Kenny Baker
Charles Boyer
Robert Cummings
Betty Field
Burns and Allen
Duffy’s Tavern
Aldrich
Culver City
Leo Thé Lion
Freddy Steele
Richard Carlson
Maxie Rosenbloom
Lou Nova
Jack Roper
Johnny Indrissano
Kay Kyser
Robert Benchley
Metro
Alec Templeton
Fred Allen
Ginny Simms
Mera
U. S
Madge Lewis
Tin Salvage Institute
Joseph Schott
Washington, D. C
Washington
Interior Department
Aleutian Islands
Kosei Maru
Joe Eastman
Grantland Rice
Sam
Dee Turner
McCadden
Holywood
Calif
Ukraine
Russia
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Choice
St. Joseph Asein
Amazon River
U.S
Begoodrich
WNU
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