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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1949
Page
20
Los Angeles dispatch reports actress Jean Wallace twenty four, former wife of Franchot Tone, will face trial January seventeenth on a drunken driving charge. She pleaded innocent and posted one hundred dollars bail after her arrest on Christmas Day. Police described her driving as erratic and the scene as scantily clad.
January Reader's Digest surveys tobacco's health effects including heart impact digestion stomach ulcers and life expectancy. It presents the latest facts and figures on smoking habits for readers to judge for themselves.
Condensed excerpts cover the Dionne quintuplets first week, their strain on Dr Dafoe, a six page piece Little Boy Lost, an Englishman seeking his vanished son, and Henry J Kaiser’s four simple secrets for career success and happiness.
New York film critics voting for 1949 award honors named All the King's Men best motion picture. Olivia de Havilland won best actress for The Heiress, Broderick Crawford best actor for All the King's Men, Carol Reed won best director for The Fallen Idol, and The Bicycle Thief won best foreign language film.
Movie actor Tyrone Power and his wife Linda Christian plan about ten days in Mexico with her family. They arrived in Mexico City on their private plane for New Year’s Eve, confirming the visit.
A December 28 1950 column critiques New Yorks plan to recognize alcoholism as a disease and pay benefits to compulsive drinkers. The author mocks Rudolph the reindeer as a paid alcoholic and coins the idea of a social safety net enabling drunkenness with government funds. He laments not following his own drinker upbringing and jokes about future status as a heavy drinker. The piece uses satirical voice to discuss welfare and prohibition era attitudes.
New York reports a holiday theater splash with Lilli Palmer and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Caesar and Cleopatra praised by many, while Betty Field in The Rat Race drew mixed notices. Brooks Atkinson called Field superb but the play aimless.
A rapid-fire collage of TV critique and entertainment gossip includes Eddie Garroway sponsor chatter, Lee Tracy on stage, 18 minutes of prep for a role, and a chorus of headlines about Nazis, automat coin slots, and gifts to Stalin. The piece riffs on publishing costs, TV’s dulling effect, and the shifting sands of Hollywood marriages and political ties.
In New York on December 28, eight teenage toughs were charged with injuring theater usher Lawrence Russi during a free-for-all on the main staircase of the Paramount Theater on Broadway. About 500 ticketholders watched as ushers battled the youths. police sought seven others who escaped.
Milton W. Gill, 18, kissed his girlfriend good night then returned to his parked car which rolled 400 feet downhill and crashed into another vehicle. A police officer grilled him about brakes, gears, and wheels, but Gill recalled only the kiss and received a ticket to help him remember not to park illegally.
Signal Hill Calif Dec 28 Mrs Ruth Hamre 43 a housewife apparently shot herself with a blank cartridge police reported today She fired a .32 caliber revolver used to start sports events near her throat last night Wadding from the shell tore into her vein
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