Hollywood Notes and Onstage Incidents Stir Cast and Crew
A Johnny Presents broadcast saw Ginny Simms singing as a stranger charged the stage, Dennis Roberts safely removed him. News clips note Geraldine Fitzgerald deflects romance in favor of film career, Ingrid Bergman eyeing Rainbow’s The Bells of St Marys, and various studio shifts and radio signings.
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Ginny Simms
Ken Roberts
Ginny
Roberts
Hollywood
REO
Paramount
Leo McCarey
Ingrid Bergman
Henry Travers
Rainbow Productions
Trial exposes nonchalant defiance of Nazi crimes
The transcript features an audacious Q and A with Hermann Goering ally Quisling, denying guilt while boasting misdeeds as acts of loyalty. Moments range from spare admissions to protestations of innocence as the tribunal probes his role in war atrocities and deportations.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Kaiser Sets Pace in Reconversion Plans
In San Francisco Kaiser plans postwar expansion across shipping, housing, rail and health, stressing competition. He envisions government subsidy for merchant marine, lower rail fares, longer highways, cheaper cars, and nationwide health facilities while pursuing new metals and chemicals ventures. The Pacific coast faces postwar shifts with optimism and growing trade, especially to Latin America and the Orient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Kaiser Shipyards
Richmond
Henry J. Kaiser
Eadet
Japan
Orient
Russia
Molotov
Latin America
Pacific
Tennis versus golf in U S sports culture
A tennis expert argues tennis wins on space efficiency and global reach, estimating 14 800 municipal courts in 983 towns and 40 million players worldwide. He notes golf requires large land, while tennis favors widespread participation and international standardization. He warns against spectator dominance in major sports.
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U. S
New York
U.S.S.T.A
Caily
United States
The Best Golf Swing by Craig Wood Revisited
Craig Wood argues the key to lower scores is using the g squared-face at the backswing and keeping the face square through the downswing. He says less pivot and more hand control help bring the club back square to the ball for better accuracy.
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Manila
The
Orient
U. S
Taft Avenue
Bailey Bridge
Craig Wood
Tennis tops world appeal surpassing golf and soccer
Grantland Rice argues tennis dominates international sport, noting 59 nations governed by tennis bodies in 1939, the reach of the Davis Cup since 1900, and the sport’s global appeal rivaling or surpassing soccer golf basketball and track and field. He highlights Dwight Davis and Bert Walker as key St. Louis figures in popularizing tennis and golf internationally.
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Europe
South Pacific
Lang
Naional
International Lawn Tennis Association
U. S
Kenya
China
Dwight Davis
St. Louis
Senna
Dwight—Davie
George Herbert Walker
Dwight Davie
Bert Walker
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Virginia Vale
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Wilton
Warner Bros
John Garfield
Uncle Harry
Universal
Eddie Cantor
RKO
Cantor
Joan Davis
Oliver Wallace
Walt Disney
Goofy
Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Fred MacMurray
Leslie Fenton
Mutual Productions
MacMurray
Marguerite Chapman
Fred
Akim Tamiroff
William Demarest
Harry Davenport
Douglas Dombrillo
Abbott and Costello
Bob Mathews
Costello
Lou
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rodzinski
CBS
Armed Forces Radio Service
Oixie
Nelson
Mexico
Dorothy Our
Joan Bennett
Republic
Sunsets
Carson
Attudio’s
Hermann Goering
Coventry
Plymouth
Rotterdam
Warsaw
London
der Fuehrer
Nein
Quisling
Peter Widener
Happy
Chandler
Mr. Chandler
Keitel
Germany
Smith
Walter Smith
Berchtesgaden
John L. Lewis
Clarence Smedley Thompson
Irving Place
Okinawa Island
Okinawa
Pacific Isle
Chester W. Nimitz
RCAF
U. S. Coast Guard
Labrador Wilds
Army and Navy
Army
Navy
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
William G. Leahy
Stef
Ernest J. Bing
Naval Operations
William W. Eldridge Jr
Hixon, Tenn
Oknawa
U.S
Ida Eisenhower
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
P Paulmallon
Western Newspaper Union
Kaiser
Washington
Grantland Rice
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