Hollywood Star Van Dyke Joins Cemented Fame Lineup
Hollywood star Dick Van Dyke becomes the 152nd celebrity to leave a hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in a ceremony with National General's Eugene V. Klein and Irving H. Levin. Van Dyke stars in Walt Disney's Lt Robin Crusoe USN and shoots Divorce American Style at Columbia Studios as the forecourt nears capacity into 2001. A note recalls Norma Talmadge's accidental imprint that started the tradition in 1927. A second item reports Sylvania Electric winning a U.S. government contract for stamp phosphor mail sorting in Wanda, Pennsylvania.
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Hollywood
Dick van Dyke
Grauman
Eugene V. Klein
National General Corporation
Irving H. Levin
van Dyke
Walt Disney
Robin Cruesoe
Tandem National General
Columbia Studios
Sid Grauman
Norma Talmadge
Behind the Scenes in Hollywood Ends Stunt Work
Hollywood scene notes Tony Curtis ends stunt work after a near fatal crash during a Don’t Make Waves shoot on cliffs above Trancas Beach. He was burned on the left leg and limped afterward, prompting producer Marty Ransohoff to drop him from stunts.
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Hollywood
Marty Ransohoff
Tony Curtis
Ransohoff
Curtis
Trancas Beach
Tony
Claudia Cardinale
Billy Wilcoxson
Monroe
Jackson
Wyoming
Bob Crane
Crane
Bobby
Abe Schiller
Tommy Sands
Molly Bee
Features Syndicate
Village Life Museum Bucharest Brings Rural Heritage
Communism era Bucharest houses 223 old farmsteads and villages relocated as a shrine to rural traditions. The museum houses 17 500 everyday life objects from the 17th century to today, showcasing tools costumes furniture and folk art.
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Bucharest
Romania
Across and Down Word Puzzle Fragments
A fragment list of crossword clues across and down with partial entries including Beetle Adage and Rejoinder. Includes hints for words such as Ventilated Elusive and Bishopric with a single Down clue Variety of chakedony.
Antiseptic to Indigo Puns Across a Scrambled List
A fragmented word puzzle lists items from antiseptic liquid to tellurium including indigo bean and needlefish. It blends clues for terms like bomb holes salutation and colorless with various numbered hints.
Not a Mere Dog Bite in Wichita Snake Bite
Mail carrier Mary J. Beddow on a Wichita route stopped to drink from a hose in a yard. The hose was a black snake that bit her hand. Doctors said the reptile was not poisonous. She received hospital treatment and was released.
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Wichita, Kan
Mary J. Beddow
London jail inmates fashion miniature moonshine still
In London Kentucky jail, two teenagers built a tiny moonshine still from coffee and tobacco cans copper tubing from a cell commode and mash from crumbled cornbread and sugar salvaged from meals. Jail official APY-Jailer Joe Proffitt reported the improvised still highlights American ingenuity and the risk of prison craft.
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London
Joe Proffitt
America
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Debra Fuehrer
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Sylvania Electric Products
Iapo
Chuck Connors
Palm Springs
Kamala Devi
Chuck
Connors
Michael Caine
Baton Rouge
Steiger
Rod Steiger
Virna Lisi
Udian
Italy
Red
Village-Life Museum
New York
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American Iron and Steel Institute
Dayton
Ohio
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Telegraph
New Delhi
City Police Department
Hy. Wingard Antenna Dealer
Horrock
Illinois
DR. Rybolt
Sik
Aidieis
Aiviaje
Aidis
Savon Extraordinaire de Fabergé
Aphrodisia
Flambeau
Janda & Tobin Drug Store
10Th
Plains AA Attene
City Row
Joe Moses
Africa
Robert Carroll
Mitchum Baker
Frank Ross
Rob Ope
Frankie Avaloncina Merrill
Sweden
Conceet
Girl Next
M-G-Me
Martin Melcher
Everett Freeman
METRO
Sidney
Vue
Rigroup
Omary
McCain
Esa Ek Ne Wi Theatre
Ame Mata PLC
Rational General Corporation
FOX Inter Mountain Theatres
Paramount Pictures
Cecil B. Demille
Heston Brynner Baxter Robinson
Decarlo Paget
Waeent
Derek-Ninowrcxe
Foch
Scot Andeigon- Price
U. S
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Staf HN
Paul Mantee
Victor Lundin Sso
Mona, the
Woolly Monkey
FORD
Bauman
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