Benny Goodman to Return to NBC Time Slot
Jazz fans celebrate Benny Goodman back on air starting July 1 with a Monday 9:30 to 10 p.m. NBC slot. The Goodman's sextette leads 16 instrumentalists with two singers, a 6 foot 4 inch Art Lund among the male vocal lineup, after recent Paramount success. The column also notes film and stage casting shifts and industry updates across Fox, Columbia, Warners, and MGM.
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Benny Goodman
NBC
Benny
Art Lund
Bobby Soxers
Goodman Band
New York
Paramount Theater
O’neills
American Broadcasting
Columbia Pictures
Virginia van Upp
Michael Fitzman
Danny O'Neill
Michael
Delaware Portrait: Birth of a Diamond State
Edward Emerine Win portrays Delaware as a rich historic and industrial hub. The piece highlights its early settlement by Swedes and Dutch, statehood in 1787, Du Pont mills, the Chesapeake Canal, and evolving transport. It notes key towns Dover Newark Lewes Milford New Castle Rehoboth, and Governor Walter W. Bacon’s leadership.
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Edward Emerine
Elaware
the Brandywine
Lafayette
Delaware
Fort Christina
Wilmington
Zwaanendael
Lewes
Duke of York
William Penn
Oliver Evans
Newport
DuPont Powder Mills
Delaware and Chesapeake
Delaware Bay
Dover
Milford
Middletown
Smyrna
Cape Henlopen
Atlantic Ocean
Walter W. Bacon
Bacon
New Castle
Brandywine Creek
Willingtown
University of Delaware
Newark
Delaware Valley
Rehoboth
Delaware's Diverse Agriculture and Industry Highlight State Strengths
Delaware shines with diverse crops from wheat to peaches and thriving industry led by Wilmington. The city hosts major manufacturers including E I du Pont, a busy port on the Delaware River, and Brandywine valley paper mills employing thousands. The state preserves rich history with markers and monuments in Dover and Lewes.
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United States
Delaware
Wilmington
E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company
Delaware River
Delaware and Chesapeake
Delaware Statehouse at Dover: 18th century rebuilding timeline
The old Kent county courthouse built in 1722 became inadequate by 1787. Funds from a state lottery funded pulling down the old structure and using bricks for a new building. Construction began in 1792 with later authorization to finish battlements, roof copper, stone steps, a front-paved area, and seating in both legislative chambers.
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State House of Delaware
Dover
Kent County
General Assembly
Delaware Blue Hen Chicken tradition cements state symbol
The piece traces how Delaware adopted the Blue Hen Chicken as the state bird in 1939, rooted in Revolutionary War era tales. It notes Capt. Jonathan Caldwell’s Kent county company carrying game chickens famed for fighting, their unit serving at Long Island and Princeton, and later Civil War militia adopting the nickname Blue Hen’s Chickens.
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Delaware
Jonathan Caldwell
Kent County
Caldwell
Long Island
White Plains
Trenton
Princeton
Midriff Style Junior Date Dress Pattern No 8973
Sewing Circle patterns showcase a midriff party dress with a dirndl skirt and wing sleeves in printed fabric with white ruffling and unusual buttons. Pattern No 8973 offers sizes 11 to 18. size 12 uses 3 yards fabric and 244 yards ruffling. Pattern No 8989 details a cool breakfast frock with pockets and belt in sizes 34 to 48. fabric needs listed.
A Practical Home Tips Roundup From A Past Column
A collection of housekeeping hints includes absorbing grease with starch, lengthening a dress with colored braid, cleaning yellowed piano keys with cologne water, and discussing carotene in carrots. It also covers sandwich ideas, odor removal from fishy dishes, crowding window plants for richer blooms, and soil enrichment for limited quantity.
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Hugo Hass
Loew-Lewin
George Sanders
Danny Kaye
Samuel Goldwyn
Frederic March
Kaye
Walter Mitty
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Frederic
Roya
Danny
Robert Young
Lady Luck
Barbara Hale
Frank Morgan
Young
Twentieth Century - Fox
Celeste Holm
Joe Howard
Joan Crawford
Warners
Hollywood Wolves
William Wyler
Goldwyn
Dana Andrews
Teresa Wright
Wyler
Beverly Roberts
Ireland
Meredith Willson
Conrad Nagle
Rales
Bette Davis
Humphrey Bogart
Rosalind Russell
Pennsylva
Caesar Rodney
Netherlands
Sweden
Great Britain
Samuel Argail
Virginia
Bay
Cape la Warre
Lord de la Warre
Thomas West
Rodney Square
Christina River
Statehouse
Old Town Hall
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Americas
Cory
Kellogg’s
Fleischmann
Perandy
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