Dior Look Boycotted in Styles Ready for Oscar Presentations
Hollywood fashion notes a Dior look boycott ahead of the Academy Awards. Edith Head, Academy costume consultant and nominee, says no two stars will wear the same dress. She defends simplicity and states the line favors photographs, with notable gowns by Head designers or not. Judy Garland and Dorothy Dandridge poised for dramatic outfits amid personal news.
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Hollywood
Movieland
Edith Head
Miss Head
Academy
Dior
Judy Garland
Miss Garland
Dorothy Dandridge
New York
Naminess
Miss Dandridge
Grace Kelly
Audrey Hepburn
London
Jane Wyman
France
Brando Kelly Lead Straw Vote In Oscar Derby
Hollywood Daily Variety reports its pre Oscar straw poll among 1600 Academy members shows Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly leading. Results cite best picture On the Waterfront, best actress Grace Kelly, best actor Marlon Brando, supporting actress Eva Marie Saint, supporting actor Edmund O'Brien, directing Elia Kazan, screenplay George Seaton for The Country Girl, and Three Coins in the Fountain as best song. Also notes an RAF sergeant survived an 18000 foot jump in WWII.
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Hollywood
Variety
Marlon Brando
Grace Kelly
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Eva Marie Saint
Edmond O’brien
Elia Kazan
George Seaton
Maniacal killer linked to two state slayings in Duncan case
Henderson Kentucky reports a two state murder spree as Goebel Duncan and his son Raymond are found slain in a field with hands bound. his wife Mamie and daughter-in-law are killed in a separate room, nude from the waist down, in a pattern resembling a Mount Vernon Indiana killing last week attributed to a sex maniac. A two year old girl survived. sheriff suspects a sex-maniac robber-killer, with Mount Vernon likewise victimized earlier.
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Henderson
Mount Vernon
Ind
Goebel Duncan
Raymond
Lee Williams
Duncan
Mamie Duncan
Goebel
Shirley Faye
Williams
Wilhelmena Suzan Sailer
Geneva
Young Father Details Slayings of Farm Family
Billy Gibbs, 23, father of newborn twins, gave officers a gruesome account of killing a farm family of four. He admitted shooting Henry Bratcher, 45, then Mrs. Bratcher, 42, forcing a granddaughter into a cistern, and later beating Lily May Bratcher, 11, to death with a hammer.
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Mcminnville, Tenn
Billy Gibbs
Dist
Fred Gilliam
Gibbs
Tennessee Bureau of
Henry Bratcher
Bratcher
Mrs. Bratcher
Lily May Bratcher
Doctor at Rossroads on Elizabeth Seifert
Dr Fred Beier arrives from St Louis to a Missouri farm community and tends to Clara Nienaber amid refugee worries. He counsels fear is a barrier to renewal, urges Mrs Linda Kyle and Mr Godfrey to support the ailing family, and recalls his own refugee past as a cautionary lesson. The piece ends with Beier vowing frank, proactive care and Linda noting his bossy style.
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Fred Beier
St. Louis
Jennings
Missouri
Katie
Fred
Linda Kyle
Linda
Nienaher
Munich
America
Godfrey
Fannie
Mr. Godfrey
Dr. Beier
Richard Nienaber
Herr Doktor
Nienaber
Doktor
Clara
Miranda’s
Public Service hearing for coal transport permit in Raleigh County
Notices announce a Public Service Commission hearing on April 5 1955 at 10:00 a.m. in Charleston WV for M C case 14152 to obtain a contract carrier permit to move coal from mining ops to loading facilities in Raleigh County under A & E Coal Co D & M Coal Co U S S Smokels Coal Co with objections allowed. Other notices include withdrawal from West Virginia by James H Drew Corporation trustee sale in Raleigh County and funeral notices for Coleman Robert Lawrence path.
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M. C
Capitol
Charleston
Public Service Commission of
West Virginia
Raleigh County
A. & E. Coal Co
D. & M. Coal
Samuel T. Britts
Maxine Britts
Grover C Trail
Beckley National Bank
Raleigh
MacArthur
Dennis Leary, Jr
C.E
Dennis Leary
Vlerk
C. T. Harvey
Funeral for Frank Wolf held in Glen Morgan Church
Frank Wolf 83 of Washington DC formerly Beckley died Saturday at his son Lawrence Wolf's home in Washington. Funeral Tuesday at Glen Morgan Community Church with Rev C E Walker officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers listed and long list of honorary pallbearers. Arrangements Calfee Funeral Home. Also memorials and local ads appear in the notice.
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Coleman
Robert Lawrence
Mary Darnell
Farley Hall
Williams
Farley Hill Baptist Church
Lester Sturgill
W. F
Betty Porter
Glenna Leffew
Josephine Goins
Violet Bays
Freda Campbell
Izola Grubb
Sunset Memorial Park
M. P. Thornton
Corvin Pittman
H. H. Withrow
George Clemson
G. V Martin Albert Lares
Raymond Martin
J. W. Fritz
H. T. Noel
J. A. Lily
Tom Brash
George Daniels
Oscar Flint
J. H. Winter
le P. Jackson
W. T. Maddy
Walter Harvey
Joe Harvey
I. W. Dilley
B. F. Wiley
Calfee Funeral Home
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Raleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
Dior Look
Donna Reed
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sheffield
England
Brando
Kelly
Oscar Derby
Soushi
the Rossroads
Elizabeth Seifert
King Features Syndicate
Chapter
H. A. Privett
Shady Springs
R.R
James H. Drew
Grover C. Trail
Memoriam
Sgt
Wilmer R. Devlin
Mrs. C. E. Devlin
Runnlong
Quesenberry & Webb Funeral Home
Vance Drive
Amos E. Quesenberry
Kyle Davis
Paul Thompson
Rupert
Clintonville
Bluefield Monument Co
Bluefield
Ft &S
Barre
RE. C. Egnor
Oak Hill
Logan
Sears Monument CO
Dial
Harper Adam
Fred Davis
Williams Mobile Station
Beckley Theatre
J. F. Allen
Harold Williams
Beckley Ice and Feed CO
Prince St
Young
R Gravely
Don W. Ford
W. E. Harvey Home Improvement Co
Sam Croy
Beckley-Marietta Paint Co
South Oakwood
Sanders and
Marguerite'’S Children
Main St
Embees
Del-Mar
Neville St
Donald W. Miller
Crab Orchard
B. E. Silverman
Raleigh County Bank
H. C. Kinzer
Main Street
Oever
Ee Beckley
G. B. Anderson
Lovitz Television
Wright
N. Tench
Haddad's TV and Furniture CO
Landers
South Oakwood Ave
Halstead
Third Ave
Ashworth Firestone Service
Dept
Geo. Sparks
RCA Victor
Zenith TV
Tr John W. Eye
West
Frank
GMC
Sprague Dial
Foster Hardware CO
Mountain State Termite Control
W. James
Venetian
Avon Venetian Blind
W. E. Moore
Sophia
Ford Tractor
George Sweeney
G Collins
Glen Daniel
K. M. Walker
Prather Brothers
Miles Mill Drive
Jack Windsor
Maxwell Hill
Salem Wooten
Mutual of Omaha
Combs St
Lewis Transfer Co
Valley Drive
Cyril “Cy” Lilly
Lilly
Midway
Gray Lumber Company
Caladino
W Va
Jacksonville
Mt. Ft
Hope
Sprague
James R. Lynch
Temple St
Liza Lucas
Walter’s Insurance Agency
Woo Ave
South Charleston
J A
Mutual of
Omaha
Combs St. Beckley
Postecards
Belmont
Mass
Pointer
Mr. Brown
President Hotel
Hotel Hill
P.O. Box
Standard Coffee Company
Wood
Beckley Hotel
Stanley Home Products
Allen Rickard
Hinton
Rainelle
Nicholas County
P. J. Jackson
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley Newspapers
H. B. Wilkes
MAN
Coal Co
Roy A. Jones
Call W. B. Jones
R L
J. H. Stinson
East Beckley
Toner Concrete CO
Beaver
U. S
Pullorum
Rhodes Hatchery
U S
Rhode Island
New Hampshires
White Rocks
Golden Cross
Crosier Hatchery
Hampshire
Clark's
Harper Road
Don Houchins
Fred Mann
Martin Maedich
Skelton
Warren Lovell
Ghent
M. C. Dunksey
Stanaford Road
Coffey
L. C. Vance
Maple Fork
Maxwell Hill Road
Harrison Mills
J & M Maytag Store
White Sulphur Springs
Stromberg
Carlson
Mademoiselle Shop
McCreery St
C. Co. Brown & Sons
P. O
Shady Spring
Planet Jr
W & M Furniture
South Kanawha St
Montgomery Ward
Beaver Lumber CO
Bradley
Mt. Hope
F. H. Hawley
Ashworth
Firestone
KODAK
King Photo Supply
Neville St. Beckley
Wilson's
S. Kanawha
Henry Conway Hardware
Grandview Sand CO
Grandview
J. V. Huddle
Clyde
Best Furniture Co
Fayette St
I Mutuaj
John Deere Farm
A and W Motor
Farmall
James Lambert
W. V
Remington Portable
Klaus & Page
Fuller Brush
J. Maynard
Alderson
W. B. Rogers, Jr
BNC Printing
W. Prince Street
Beckley Maytag CO
Beckley Glass CO
Gravely Tractor Sales
M. G. Champ
Mer
Princeton
Chamberlin Co
F. Duke Williams
Pagoda Shopping Center
Hoover
Dryzit
Sisson St
Beckley Insulation Co
Beckley Glass
Oakwood Dial
Sunset Memorial Park Homeseekers Land & Bldg. Co