Screen and film notes on actors and projects across 1940s era
A collage of Hollywood items notes screen debuts and roles for Audie Murphy and others, mentions TV plans, sponsors, and studio shifts. References to Betty Garson, Joseph Mankiewicz, and various film projects including This Time for Keeps and Bride with Bette Davis. Describes frantic schedules, travel, and a pig with a wire tail used for a scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Plz
Bette Davis
Robert Montgomery
Alyne Windust
Newth Theater Guild
unrest rumors hit Red Army as anti Communist trace emerges
Reports from behind the iron curtain speak of an anti-Communist current within the Red Army with tracts circulated among soldiers and pamphlets found in Leningrad. Uncensored tips note German Communists urging the Soviet military to lift the Berlin blockade amid economic decline in the eastern zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Army
Leningrad
Vienna
Kuzma Romanovich
Soviet Army
Germany
Berlin
Russia
Socialist Unity Party
Saxony
Herr Schnebs
Bautzen
Golf Brings The Hardest Punishment Of All Says Armour
Tommy Armour ranks golf as the toughest mental test among sports. He cites nerves, the yips, and long road to championships, noting that golfers suffer more from internal strain than physical blows. He recalls Jones and Hagen enduring nerve pressure, while boxing fighters endure different pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Armour
Jones
Armour
Ar 1Icour
Bobby Cruickshank
British Isles
Cruiskshank
Richmore Country Club
Joe Louis
Louis
Walter Hagen
Bobby Jones
Dempsey
Bronko Nagurski
Jack Hutchison
Hagen
Hobo Basket Raises Funds Across Rail Lines
The Hobo Basket began six months ago in Birmingham Alabama when three southern railway yard clerks started the fund for crippled kids. Train crews passed the basket from caboose to caboose across most of the 48 states and now it returns to Birmingham with messages from rail workers and more than eight thousand dollars inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
Birmingham
Ala
Caboose
Air Lift Debate and North South Sports Blend
Berlin air lift critique surrounds air force power with Navy Mars flying boats carrying 65 tons on short hops from Hamburg to Berlin. The piece also profiles Champ Pickens of Montgomery who creates North South ties through a Blue and Gray club charging $1 to join and promote a football shrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air
Symington
Defense Forrestal
Berlin
Navy
Mars Flying Boats
Umawaii
Hamburg
Mars
Frankfort
Champ Pickens
Montgomery
Ala
Truman
Pickens
University of Missouri
Missouri
Jefferson Davis
Columbia
Mason-Dixon Line
Cradle of the Confederacy
Blue and Gray Association
New Way to Build an Old Fashioned Lawn Swing
Modernized four seat lawn swing pattern offers full size parts and simple steps. Trace pieces on specified lumber and follow pattern for exact hole locations. Send six cents for swing pattern No 155 to East Bird Pattern, Pleasantville NY.
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O., Dept. W
Pleasantville
N. Y
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Ofos
Inez Gerhard Ladd
Paramount
Nogeiher Service
Y Audie Murphy
Tubtlon
James
Enterprise
Jim
A Bel Geddes
Robert Mason
Vaughn Monorchestra
CBS
Monroe
Senes
Jimmy Durante
Con
March of Time
Big Punch
Gordon McCrae
Golf Club
Y Seymour
Cesare Borgias
Lucretia
Oriom Welles
Italy
Randy Scott
Y Rime
Colum Sig
Death Valley
Alas
Ladd
Leathernecks
Roger
Bobby Ehrler
Brooklyn Marines
Mth Signal Company
Mount Olympus
Jamaica
L. L
The
Marine Company
Polly Ellen Pep
Hobos
Bozo
Litchfield
Ariz
Naval Air Facility Storage Depot
Harold Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Harry Lander
Harry
Hollywood
Dale Nordland
Leopold
Topor-Taperek
Seattle
Warsaw
Poland
Arthur W. Wermuth
Bataan
Wichita, Kas
U. S. Army
Wermuth
Denis Lomax
Dania, Fla
Rojo
Bobby
George Low
Jerry Travers
Baltusrol
Travers
Hobo Basket
Mea
Blandings Dream House
RKO
Arfamarerts
Elota
Kellogg's All-Bran
Kellogg Co
Bottle Creek
Mich
Yodora
LI NT
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Patna
Doan
Dean
Doans
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