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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1949
Page
2
The column humorously imagines President Truman surviving a bathtub mishap, detailing mock bulletins and reactions from Dewey Wallace and others. It then shares a New Jersey overtime ruling for a night watchman and a quip about a man sent to Wall Street for rest, highlighting tangled modern absurdities.
GOP figure Joe Martin reports a backstage civil rights compromise between southern and northern Democrats. Key terms include an anti-lynch bill, anti-poll tax bill, 60 cent per hour minimum wage, and Taft-Hartley tweaks, with broad Truman Fair Deal support but not a full binding commitment.
Tipsters buzz over Margaret Truman era plans and Mary Damon with Herbie Klotz. Helen Hayes family marriage chatter, Ann Hathaway and Northwestern grid star talks, and a libel suit at the Manhattan Opera Co. loom. Debuts, weddings, and Hollywood exploits swirl through Palm Beach, New York, and beyond with mentions of D. Marcus tribute and a host of social figures.
A poll of allied exhibitors shows Westerns top a moneymaking list after out door pictures and musicals. Metro plans three Westerns led by Devil's Doorway with Robert Taylor. The Outriders and Ambush follow. Hedy Lamarr heads to Copper Canyon with Ray Milland. Burt Lancaster to No Escape and William Tell in Italy. Stampede uses 2500 cattle for a dramatic scene starring Rod Cameron. Burns clashes with laundry over shirts later worn by daughter Sandra at school.
A famed dancer Paula Pauleen is abducted after leaving the Orpheum Theatre as Max Berber and companions watch. The Scarlet Gang in theatrical garb force her into a taxi, switch cars, and travel to a railroad village where an operator prompts a staged fan dance before a bottle appears in the scene.
Paula and eight officers arrest a group of intruders at a large house in Sargo after a tense chase. The operator signals, a train is dispatched, and Paula reveals tapping Morse code learned from her father, a station agent, linking to the suspect operation.
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