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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
2
A playful, fragment laden dialogue blends politics and pop culture from mid century figures. The group quips about Mickey Rooney and uranium, Aly Trogh and orchestra of names, Mar gareto Vickers and the Age Lilienthal, while joking on Hickenlooper, Hong Kong, and the Capet report. They reference sports figures Musial Mize Durocher and a Dodgers Potsdam pennant chase.
The Yankee stadium hosted an anniversary party for Mary Margaret McBride drawing over 42 000 fans. The famed radio star impressed fans with baseball flair describing her as versatile across all positions and praised for her control and a chuckle ball as a pitching and fielding standout.
Washington figures recall how a 1947 Cleveland Mississippi speech by Dean Acheson set off the Marshall Plan surge. Truman avoided Mississippi to escape Bilbo’s politics, Acheson edited the address, and a bipartisan committee with an elder statesman as chair emerged to push the idea.
The Home Town Reporter covers the 17th annual Edison Electric Institute convention in Atlantic City. Charles E. Wilson of General Electric warns against creeping socialism and urges an economic education campaign to highlight the benefits of the American capitalist system. He contrasts life under socialism with the bicycle economy of England and emphasizes rural support for capitalism.
A historical commentary notes Harry Byrd as a lone voice against waste in federal spending. It recounts Truman’s quip about Byrds in the Senate and describes a budding chorus as Senators Douglas and McClellan join in pushing for economies. The piece depicts a nation wary of deficits, urging restraint to avoid economic catastrophe and socialized programs.
Actor known as a heel on stage and screen for slaps to Joan Bennett and Dorothy Lamour. Real life reports him devoted husband and father active in PTA and scouts. Also notes about Alexander Knox, Ben Johnson, and a $5,000,000 ABC Kate Smith Music Room radio series with Ted Collins running July 4 for two hours nightly.
Mr. Otis Gill laughs at Arthur Forbes as the Champion buckles through choppy Atlantic seas. Forbes, pale and seasick, stares through a porthole at towering waves while others watch, some amused, others uneasy, amid the dining saloon's forward deck.
Mr Gill, sober and pale, succumbs to seasickness aboard. The moment of pain ends as he drags himself to the doorway and disappears up the stairs while a dining salon erupts in laughter and other passengers react with smiles and chatter.
Mr Forbes thanks the steward for a clever seating choice that keeps Gill opposite the porthole, noting a passenger with Gill’s chatter would have made the voyage intolerable otherwise. The steward winks, saying such arrangements exist for the comfort of all aboard.
A scrambled public crossword lists Across and Down clues with mixed spellings and errors. Readable entries include strong flavor spelling spotted affirm and various terse hints for nouns verbs and names across a grid of alternating definitions.
A compact clue list mirrors a weekly puzzle with numbers 40 42 45 46 48 and the phrase foot like organ plus malt beverage. Indicates a wordplay sequence likely spanning etymology and definitions.
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