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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1950
Page
27
Fire detectives search the RM Bar and Cocktail Lounge attic theft report. Suspect fled after taking $1,464 from cash register. bartender Henry Kreminski witnessed the incident at 230 West Washington Street.
Pakistan announces the creation of an Air Scout movement targeting boys aged 12 to 13 percent years old. The plan outlines programs to build skills, discipline, and aviation interest among youth through organized scouting activities and training.
In New York Wendell Corey is billed by a publicity agent as a lovable, charming movie star with Broadway roots and Hollywood fame. The agent and his office romance recount Corey as refined, family oriented, and famously unfazed by reefer parties, though delayed by flighty scheduling as a Plaza interview unfolds.
In New York on January 20 Dr Hermann Sander faces murder trial on February 20 over a mercy killing in which a cancer patient suffered agony. The column weighs motive versus law urging mercy if convicted. Also coverage notes ACTH misreporting warnings from Dr C P Rhoads and remarks on atomic and hydrogen bomb research with Stalin at a Kremlin meeting.
Walter Winchell advocates a peace conference with Russia offering more trade to Iron Curtain nations while Stalin seeks a joint commission to rule Germany and Japan. He warns against allowing Japan and Germany to join the West, notes China’s consolidation and India’s next, and criticizes civil defense plans as threats to liberties.
The forecast urges clever and creative talents to push radical plans with practical tact and diplomacy. Long range benefits hinge on policy and decisive, circumstantial manipulation without rash haste. Those born on the day may face radical denouements and unique talents guiding a public service career.
Josef Hofmann born January 20 1876 in Krakow Poland to musical parents. Renowned pianist composer and inventor of automobile accessories he gained fame as a prodigy at age seven. He gave 42 concerts in one season in the United States at age eleven.
Hollywood gossip column reports Belita, a renowned ice show star, stating chorus girls return via ice productions as vaudeville fades. She touts steady work, long seasons, three-week vacations, and family-friendly, non vulgar shows with longevity for skaters who can dance, starting young.
Mattie S. Love filed for divorce in Savannah claiming her husband Natural Love deserted her. The action was reported by Associated Press from Savannah on January 20.
Gracie Allen mocks modern men as fragile in a humorous Scots tale. A judge ruled a girl’s ring toss did not end an engagement, while Allen jokes about jealous suitors, a sister jilting, and a husband who yields to secrecy over marriage.
Roselle New Jersey January 20 1950 A 27 year old electrician Forest W Killy built a home color adapter for 30 cents using cellophane and a discarded phonograph motor CBS officials confirmed color reception at his set WCBS TV in New York had been transmitting experimental color programs for FCC hearings Killy learned by reading a magazine and also spins a color wheel from pie shaped pieces of cellophane calibrated by a phonograph motor His sister sparked CBS interest drawing a team of experts to verify the claim Separately California leads in civil aircraft figures per a Civil Aeronautics Administration study Texas Illinois New York and Michigan follow.
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