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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1955
Page
8
Hollywood reports Ray Milland celebrates ending his TV show as the reluctant star declares happiness and relief. He calls himself the happiest man in the world while noting some performers would be affected.
Hollywood talk credits Richard Carlson and Fredric Milland with finding big profits in television deals. Carlson touts profit sharing from TV films while Milland recalls clashes with sponsors but notes early cash from reruns. Both actors weigh careers between films and TV roles amid sponsor and syndication shifts.
Broadways new musical revue Almost Crazy will debut on Broadway on Monday. Producer John J. Cobb, 24, from Detroit and Michigan State College graduate, aims to capitalize on low summer costs and New York visitors. He has secured a single backer after two years as an actor on Broadway and tour.
Garden author describes including Bougainvillea Allamanda Pink Vine Thunbergia and more to bloom nearly year round. Notes pruning timings tied to flowering, use in borders and containers, and cautions about pests and color pairing with Poinsettias and the Bleeding Heart misnaming Clerodendron Thomsonianum pictured at Mrs E B Toole's Sarasota home.
Four applications for soil and water conservation plans were filed with the Sarasota Soil Conservation District. The projects cover more than 800 acres across farms in Dallas, Henry Cosgrove, the Races Company, and L.H. Hawkins, with drainage and seepage irrigation systems planned for pastures and muck areas.
State Rep Samuel Frank urged the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to improve behavior after 11 year old Norman Batchelor described the chamber as theater before the movie starts. Frank invited the boy to return as his guest to correct the impression.
A military guard killed a five foot rattlesnake yesterday about half a mile from President Eisenhower's Operation Alert headquarters, near the White House.
A collage of entertainment items detailing Debbie Sammy Davis Jr relationship chatter, Mona Freeman and Bing Crosby ties, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds rumors, Dean Martin Jerry Lewis tensions, Rossano Brazzi and Katharine Hepburn nightlife, K T Stevens leaving The Tender Trap, and other Hollywood party intel. Also notes on dancers, divorce filings, Danny Kaye London parties, and a wave of Newcomers lighting up the juke box scene.
Louella Parsons recalls the welcome in Istanbul for American visitors at the Hilton Hotel. She notes Conrad Hilton's impact on Turkish American relations, tours Beylerbey palace, Dolmabahce chandeliers, Blue Mosque, Saint Sophia, and Ataturk’s simple quarters, with reflections on Islam Christian symbols and a tour from Yesilkoy to the Bosphorus.
Wadsworth Ohio man Donal Starling appeals to Rep Ayres for help after his wife Gisela 25 left for East Germany with their 2 year old son last February She says she is staying of her own free will and reportedly claims attachment to her homeland Starling doubts the letter was written freely and fears duress He married Gisela in 1947 and met her in 1945 while in the Army He asks State Department to investigate
A U.S. Air Force Sabre Jet crash landed near Fukuoka Japan and struck a Japanese farm woman who died. The pilot survived with no injury.
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