Peabody Sisters of Salem Book Review
The Book of the Month Club picks Louise Hall Tharp’s The Peabody Sisters of Salem about Mary Horace Mann Sophia Hawthorne and Elizabeth Peabody. Tharp draws on diaries to illuminate the Salem sisters influence on 19th century reform and literature.
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Francis Bacon
Samuel Shellabarger
Book Club
Peabody Sisters OF
Salem
Louise Hall Tharp
Little, Brown and Company
Boston
Pee
Horace Mann
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peabody Sisters
Mary
Sophia
Hawthorne
Elizabeth
Tharp
New England
Modern Histories and Guides Review in 1950
A literary column praises Julian de Vries for human warmth in a biography of three women shaping American culture. It also reviews The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger as an action filled historical novel suited for film, and guides to knowledge from Unicorn Publishers and Funk and Wagnalls highlighting study plans and encyclopedia cross references.
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Samuel Shellabarger
Little, Brown and Company
Boston
Castille
Tyrone Power
France
Shellabarger
Unicorn Publishers
New York
Funk and Wagnalls
Mme Chiang Faces World Crisis With Grim Resolve
Mme Chiang Kai-shek in Riverdale discusses her husband Chiang Kai-shek, forms Formosa plans, and hopes for Hoover-like vindication. She praises moral strength, faith, and sacrifice, notes vitamins packed for her husband, and emphasizes resolve against slavery and danger.
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New York
INS
Chiang Kai-shek
Mme. Chiang
Formosa
Missimo
Riverdale
New York City
Weller
Byron Herbert Reece Author Of The Week Profile
The Choestoe Georgia native Byron Herbert Reece author of Better a Dinner of Herbs grew up in a rural area where he witnessed early automobiles and a phonograph. His country upbringing shaped his poetry culminating in Ballad of the Bones and his public image as the farm working resident of Wolf Creek in Choestoe. His novel’s publication will broaden his recognition.
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Byron Herbert Reece
Choestoe
Wolf Creek
Stafford to Europe as first U S entertainer radio invasion
Chirper Jo Stafford will present swing and ballads on a Radio Luxembourg program, testing European taste for bebop. She notes Europeans prefer British stars and bands like Ted Heath Vera Lynn Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington. She plans eight numbers and will describe each record with background notes while consulting the State Department on Americanism.
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Hollywood
Jo Stafford
United States
Europe
Stafford
Radio Luxembourg
England
Miss Stafford
Paris
Ted Heath
Vera Lynn
Anne Shelton
Stan Kenton
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Danny Kaye
Peans
Dorothy Thompson
State Department
America
Brain Operation Film Shown At State Hospital
A film illustrating major steps of a brain operation to reduce or end epileptic seizures will be shown at the Arizona State Hospital after today’s monthly Board of Control meeting. Press and media representatives are invited, with broader viewings planned for medical groups statewide. The film was produced as part of the hospital’s epilepsy cure and treatment program and colored by the Grunow Clinic photography department.
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Arizona State Hospital
Board of Control
State Hospital
Grunow Clinic
Department of Photography
Parole Board To Meet In Florence For Parole Hearings
A meeting of the Arizona State Board of Pardons and Paroles will be held at Arizona State Prison in Florence at 10 a.m. tomorrow. The board will consider 26 prisoners for parole upon minimum sentence expiration and 12 prisoners seek commutation of sentences.
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Arizona State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Arizona State Prison
Florence
Ice-Skating Revue Sparks Madison Square Garden Run
Advance sales for the Phoenix Lions Club sponsored Icelandia skating revue at Madison Square Garden show rapid takeup. The performers own the act and include Buff and Dot McCusker founders, Marie Purviance, Alice Goodheart, and Karyl Leigh. Matinees are set for Saturday and Sunday.
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Madison Square Garden
Buff
Dot McCusker
Marie Purviance
Alice Goodheart
Karyl Leigh
Gracie Allen Reveals Hollywood Kiss Statistics
Gracie Allen jokes about Clark Gable and Cary Grant being kissed by leading ladies more than 300000 times totaling over 8000 hours. She quips the figures aren’t exact and notes she kept track to avoid boredom. She ends by imagining Betty Grable’s husband Harry James exhausted from love and life.
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Clark Gable
Cary Grant
Clark
Cary
Betty Grable
Harry James
Mrs Haymes Loses Baby in California
Mrs Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes wife of singer Dick Haymes and former wife of Errol Flynn lost her expected baby yesterday in Burbank California. She grew seriously ill last Friday and worsened after midnight Saturday. She was hospitalized and obstetrics specialist Dr Julian Mines aided in the effort to save mother and child. The baby was due next June. Dr Frank Nolan said she is out of danger.
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Burbank
Calif
Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes
Dick Haymes
Errol Flynn
Burbank Hospital
Frank Nolan
Haymes
Nolan
Julian Mines
Philadelphia
Music Manglers Show Here in Phoenix Union High
Spike Jones and the 1950 edition of his Musical Depreciation Revue perform twice at Phoenix Union High School Auditorium at 7 and 9 30 p m today. The program features Jones favorites plus new numbers like Wild Bill Hiccup Poet and Peasant and Some Enchanted Evening with Doodles Weaver Hora tio Q Birdbath Sir Fredric Gas and others aided by the Slickerettes and 44 manglers of music.
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Spike Jones
Phoenix Union High School
Jones
Wild Bill Hiccup
Doodles Weaver
Horatio Q. Birdbath
Fredric Gas
Dick and Freddie Morgan
Joe Syracusa
Pretty Slickerettes
Helen Grayce
Manglers of Music
Attack Suffered By Bull Montana
Hollywood reports Bull Montana, famed silent film tough guy and trainer of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack at his Hollywood home. The actor, noted for his rugged looks, is admitted to French Hospital.
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Hollywood
Bull Montana
Tough Guy
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
French Hospital
Montana
Missionary meeting set at First Christian Church
Charles E. Brown investigator in charge of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit in Arizona will address the Men s Missionary Society on Coordinations Between the Six Treasury Enforcement Agencies. Dinner at 6 45 p m. and speech follow in the church basement 801 North Central Avenue.
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Methodist Men
North Central Avenue
Phoenix
Mount Fuji
Japan
Richard F. Osuna
Dolores Osuna
Peoria
27Th Infantry
Walter H. Mason
Ruth Mae Lewis
North 10Th Street
24Th Infantry
Harold J. Johnson
Joseph W. Johnson
Chandler
Navy
Chandler High School
Yosemite
Charles E. Brown
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Arizona
Men’s Missionary Society of
First Christian Church
Treasury Enforcement
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Spring Air Southwest Mattress Co
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Inez Robb
Robb
Beshalf
Chiang
President Hoover
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Woody Herman
Andrews Sisters
Parole Board
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St. Monica’s Hospital
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Pennsylvania Society of Arizona
First Methodist Church
West Monroe Street
Ruby Hunt
Eugene
Ore
Lillian May Collins
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American Bar Association
Harold J. Gallagher
Walter E. Craig
East Bethany Home Road
Charles A. Carson
Portland Street
Henry S. Stevens
West
Coronado Road
George H. Rawlins
Paul M. Roca
Palmcroft Way
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Pearl Harvey
Lincoln Street
Ben Projan
Hanny’s
American Institute For Foreign Trade
Projan
Cuba
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Humane Association of Arizona
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War Department
Ann Stedwell
Ninth District
American Legion
Hazel Morton
Wickenburg
Legion
North Phoenix High School
Winona Montgomery
National Commission For the Defense of Democracy
Richard B. Kennan
Ncddte
Washington, D. C
Agnes Allen
Flagstaff
Arizona Education Association
Emmett McLoughlin
Central
Gracie Allen
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Radio’s Brightest
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Bob Hope
Melly
Electric Center
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William Boyd
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Holsum Bakery
John Chas
Howard, Barlow
Dr. Kildare
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Joe Dana Fulton Wis, Jr
Gabriel _Heatter Mutual Newsreel
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Bill Henry
Family Theatre
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KOOL
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Hollywood Calling
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Godfrey
Lux Radio Theatre
Kate Smith
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Carles Malone
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Cliff Edwards
Clu
World News
Arthur Godfrey Hemingway
Howard Black
Ameri
Cecil Brown
Lorraine Hall
Poe Glenn Hardy
Nancy Craig
Nana
Nwees
Leonard Leigh
Hemingway
Eaesey
Treasury _ Hour
Chet Huntly
Ventide
Avier Cugat
Big Ma
Dr. Malone
KROX
Fear
News
Bandwagon
West’ N Bandwagon
Lombardo
Guy Lombardo 7
United Nations
R. Harkingie Bates
Frankie Laine
la Fiesta Mexicana
Reg Harkins
Land of Ours
Rigram Rayndup
Golden Melody
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