Broadway and Main Street
A first person reminiscence set around 40 years ago at the East River tugboat terminal. The narrator recalls swiping coal, a yard detective’s terse warning, a silver dollar bribe, and spending it on hot chocolate and a date, ending with a cheeky wish to repay the detective with front-row show tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East River
Senator Taft
Pop
Lower East Side
Manhattan Bridge
Rivington Street
Slifkin’s
Gloria Swanson Career Triumphs and Broadcast Plans
Inez Gerhard notes Gloria Swanson's career from child star to film, TV, and business success. Swanson refused a nose job, starred in Sunset Boulevard, and remains a major figure as Theatre Guild of the Air returns June 4 on NBC. NBC will air a 29 week theater series and a 13 week symphony broadcast with famed conductors. Bill Holden, MacDonald Carey, Jan Sterling, and Doris Dalton are cited with TV, film, and stage work amid industry details and promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Gloria
Theatre Guild of the Air
NBC
U.S. Steel
NBC Symphony
Job Offer Breakthrough For Boston Man Tully
In New York, a determined man named Tully rejects a low bid and confronts Gunner Inc. An associate, Mr. Jacobs, misreads the worth of Tully until Gunner himself intervenes offering $300 a week. Tully accepts to honor his uncle and secure a future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunner
Jeffrey
Tully
Mr. Jacobs
R. Jacobs
Tully's Hotel
Ing
Young
Irwin
August Gunner
Jacobs
Mr. Gunner
New York
This Is Your Paper: Local News Is Big Too
This excerpt argues the value of the hometown newspaper beyond news alone. It emphasizes that papers include editorials features and ads and reflect grass roots views. It asserts sixty percent of Americans live in communities and that local papers mirror majority desires and inform entertain and give a community a voice.
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Legislature
Congress
America
United Majority States
Little League Grows Youthful Baseball Nationwide
The Little League movement for boys aged 8 to 12 expands across at least 37 states with Carl Stotz of Williamsport at the helm. Sponsorships, scaled down diamonds, and safety rules foster community play while preparing young players for future big league ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Happy” Chandler
United States
Carl Stotz
Williamsport
United States Rubber Company
Stotz
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Courtyard edition presents a compact crossword with across clues including Manila hemp bundle of grain and biblical, down clues range from past seaport and sphere of action to hastened and filament. Readers fill in 35 clues spanning languages and regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Spain
Little League World Series Draws 10000 Fans in 1949 Final
In a decade the Little League has grown to national prominence offering organized league baseball for boys. In 1949 more than 10,000 watched Hammonton New Jersey face Pensacola Florida in the final game of the Little League World Series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safe
Williamsport
Muncl Sacco
Hammonton
Jerry Miller
Pensacola
Eddie Listander
Mickey McConney
Brooklyn Dodgers
United States
N. J
Fla
Attractive garden figures pattern 308 with paints
The notice promotes pattern 308 for making life like and colorful garden figures. It promises delightful results once completed and suggests the right brushes paints and finishes to use. The price of the pattern is 25 cents.
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Broadway
Main Street
By Billy Rose
Billy Rose
Inez Gerhard
Loria Swanson
Gloria Swanson
Bill Holden
Bill
MacDonald Carey
the Lawless
RKO
Claudette Colbert
Robert Ryan
Jan Sterling
Paul Douglas
Doris Dalton
Vivian Jarrett
Nora Drake
CBS
John Barrymore
the Fiction Corner
Tally
Enrico Fermi
University of Chicago
William R. Nelson
Little League
U.S
U.S. Rubber Company
Willamsport
Bruce Dudley
The
American Association
G. M. Tautman
National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
Little Boys of America
Sym
Bedford Wills
Saraniees
Mouseke
Ize
Otto L. Kleppe
10Th Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Mich
Auch Ea
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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