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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1957
Page
7
Albert Edward Wiggam argues that true criminals rarely reform and keep pursuing crime despite capture. He also notes that shared tastes underpin happy marriages and help overcome obstacles, suggesting compatible interests ease relationship problems.
Rumors swirl as Jack Benny, now hosting NBC Tonight, jokes about Nielsen points and surveys proving anything. The piece traces Benny’s career, ties to CBS and NBC, and mentions interactions with Sid Carroll, Howard Hughes, and others, highlighting a sharp media cliffhanger around Benny’s future.
Hal Boyle surveys the Roaring Twenties noting Americans’ romance with the era’s excesses and glamour, contrasting the Gay Nineties with a decade of rapid change and shifting social norms. He reflects on cultural obsessions and the era’s lasting allure.
Bridge clubs report a match where West doubles after South opens one spade. At Table One Hast passes. West leads king of hearts and shifts to spades. South discards clubs, and despite a misfit hand, South makes two trump tricks for a 360 score while at Table Two East bids no trump and South overcalls two spades, yielding 670 for South. The column then shifts to jazz age reminiscence with Castro-tinged narration and cultural anecdotes about Prohibition era figures, Capone, Berlin, and the Jazz Age in general.
An aged figure speaks bluntly about usefulness and keeping interest alive, noting that people lose interest when they can no longer be used. The remark reflects a weary pragmatism and a survival mindset in a changing social setting.
The article notes Michigan typically ranks first among U S states for hunting and fishing license sales. It also mentions ships carrying over three fourths of total international tonnage and the U S Army cost to clothe a new enlisted man at 139 29, and explains alumenum ore called haunite from Les Baux in France.
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