Whoopee Box Laugh Gadget Introduced for TV
New York reports a toy called the whoopee box adds artificial laughter for TV shows. A sound effects operator selects from four buttons for titters chuckles giggles and belly laughs. Used on CBS live programs from small studios to preserve an honest feel. NBC explores similar jokey laughs via remote monitors in Brooklyn.
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New York
U.S
CBS
NBC
Max Liebman
Brooklyn
Century Theater
Manhattan
Earl
Dom DiMaggio
Boston
Lou Boudreau
Ted
Editorial Insight on Love Friendship and Morality
A compact editorial reflects on how friendship requires love and morality to become religion, invoking Richard Garnett’s thought about the fire of emotion guiding virtue into belief. The piece frames emotion as the engine that elevates ethics into a deeper creed.
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Richard Garnett
Candidates Attend Farm Road Trips Seek Help for County Economy
The Beckley Area Chamber of Commerce highway committee arranged trips for legislative candidates to gauge farm to market road issues in Egeria Richmond District and Maple Meadow. Some candidates attended all three, others none. Absent were Democratic House of Delegates hopefuls Burke Shafer and Blackburn. We offer this information to Raleigh County voters for guidance at the November 2 election.
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Beckley Area
Raleigh
Senate
House of Delegates
Egeria
Richmond
Maple Meadow
Jack Nuckols
State Senate
Jack Mann
Harold Smith
Truman Sayre
Richard District
Robert Foster
Paul Vennari
C. D. Perkins
Ted Kessinger
W. A. Burke
Everett R. Shafer
J. E. Blackburn
Raleigh County
West Virginia amendment seeks longer sessions and higher pay
The proposed constitutional amendment would create annual sessions with a 60 day odd year session for major legislation and budget work and a 30 day even year session for budget only. It would raise legislators salaries to 1500 dollars a year in the Senate and House of Delegates, addressing time and expense burdens and urging public support from business agricultural labor and professional groups with bipartisan backing.
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Senate
House of Delegates
West Virginia
Charleston
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Ohio
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
New York
Illinois
The
Register
Knighting Eden Honors an Idea as Britain Joins Europe
Queen Elizabeth knighting Anthony Eden signals Britain moving toward deep European integration. The gesture elevates Eden for helping Western Europe replace the defeated EDC project and commit Britain to a defense union, with troops on the continent subject to collective decisions. Churchill’s role is noted as less influential in this shift.
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Britain
Queen Elizabeth
Anthony Eden
Sir Anthony
Western
Europe
West Europe
New Defense Union
Anthony
Winston Churchill
French Dog Coquette Caps Family’s Sudden Convenience
A long narrative recalls adopting a miniature French poodle named Coquette, nicknamed Cokey, who instantly wins the household. Despite initial resistance, Cokey’s charm disrupts routines, wins over Fanny, and secures a bed near Anna, transforming a reluctant duo into devoted dog owners with humorous mishaps and affection.
Beckley News Rates and Subscriptions Guidelines
Publication notice from Beckley Newspapers outlines home delivery options and rates for daily, Sunday, and weekend service. It lists carrier responsibilities, tax details, and instructions for address changes and payment methods.
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West Virginia
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Military Men in News At Home and Overseas
Peggy Kessinger presents an at home and overseas roll of U S military personnel. Cpl Hubert C Atkins 20 of Mead serves in Korea with the 772nd Military Police Battalion and wears Korean and United Nations ribbons. Several officers and airmen earn commissions, complete pilot training, or receive new assignments across Fort Benning Bryan Air Force Base Stallings and O'Hare. Roles span executive officer patrol clerk and control tower maintenance with assignments in Korea, Texas, North Carolina, New York and Illinois.
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Korea
Cpl
Hubert C. Atkins
Everet C. Atkins, Mead
United Nations
Bryan Air Force Base
Tex
Harold H. Woodell
G. C. Woodell
Beckley
United States Air Force
University of Kentucky
Stallings Air Base
N. C
Bryant Air Force Base
Woodell
Air Force Base
Floyd W. Bundrant
Floyd Bundrant
Fayetteville
I Corps
622Nd Military Police Company
Indian Gap
Luella
Bronx
N. Y
O'Hare International Airport
Jason C. West
W. B. Tilley
Air Air Force
Sampson Air Force Base
N.Y
Autumn foliage boasts fail to spark Zadok's interest
The piece humorously notes Zadok Dumkopf de clares that autumn beauty leaves him cold and a psychiatrist comments that mental tests for under threes interest few. The rambling snippet hints at a child’s growth and muddled chatter from Junior.
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Zadok Dumkopf
Duffy's Tavern Is Clergy Rendezvous
New York clerics choose Duffy's Tavern near the New York Public Library as a meeting spot. Frank Duffy runs the clerical department at Rogers Peet Co., outfitting about 10,000 priests and rabbis yearly and traveling 40,000 miles to serve them. He notes ministers worldwide have been dressed, and clergy tastes change slowly.
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Duffy’s Tavern tailor to clergy and church leaders
Duffy outfits more than 30 000 clergymen with silk thread robes and coats and recalls famous clients like Pope Pius XII and Archbishop Paul Yupin. The piece surveys clerical fashion shifts from topcoats to homburg hats and formal wear while noting humorous anecdotes about bishops and inmates.
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Duffy
Duffy's
Paul Yupin
Nanking
Father Yupin
Pope Pius XII
United States
Cardinal Pacelli
Ambrose Hyland
Dannemora
Alliance Germany Pact reshapes postwar order
ED CREAGH analyzes the Paris pacts as a bold gamble by the Allies to remold West Germany into a semi sovereign, Western allied member with a 12 division cap, German consent to stay under Allied oversight, and NATO authority expanding over German arms while occupation forces remain in place. The plan pleases many yet worries the Russians Adenauer critics and those wary of rearmament.
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Germany
Paris
West Germany
Russia
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
East
Adenauer
West
Dean Acheson
Dulles
Acheson
France
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Stop Me by Bennett Cerf and a Night in Greenwich Village
A quirky column quips about Sir Cedric Hardwicke visiting a Greenwich Village theater to see Mrs. Warren's Profession and a parade of oddball scenes. A Florida judge suspends his wife's license for two months, while a barrel-clad man jokes about poker on Main Street as an officer laughs at the scene.
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Bernard Shaw
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