South Pacific Wins Pulitzer Drama Award
Broadway musical South Pacific won the 1950 Pulitzer prize for best original American drama. awards total 13 prizes announced by President Eisenhower at Columbia University with cash and gold medals for winners.
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New York
South Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein
James A. Mitchener
Joseph Pulitzer
A. B. Guthrie
Chicago Daily News
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Illinois
George Thiem
Roy J. Harris
Edwin O. Guthman
Seattle Times
Meyer Berger
New York Times
Edmund “Evens
The
Christian Science Monitor
Gwendolyn Brooks
Chicago
Annie Allen
Gian- Carlo Menotti
Leonard Everett Fisher
Brooklyn
R L Stubbs Springfield Editor Dies at 58
Robert L. Stubbs 58 longtime managing editor of the Illinois State Register died after a heart condition at St John’s hospital in Springfield. A 35 year newspaperman he worked on the Old News The News Record and The Register before joining The Register in 1918. He left only briefly in 1928 1929 to lead a state reports department under Gov Emmerson. He is survived by wife Edna E Stubbs and sister Mrs Roy R Ogg.
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Springfield
Ill
Robert L. Stubbs
Illinois State Register
St. John’s Hospital
Stubbs
Old News
News-Record
The
Register
State Department of Reports
Louis L. Emmerson
Edna E. Stubbs
Roy R. Ogg
J Hampton Moore Dies at 83 Former Philadelphia Mayor and congressman
J Hampton Moore 83 former Philadelphia mayor and seven term U S congressman died after a two year illness in Philadelphia. He led the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association from 1907 to 1947 and served in the House from 1905 to 1919. He was mayor of Philadelphia in 1920 1924 and 1931 as independent and Republican respectively.
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J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
U. S. Congress
Moore
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
U. S. House
Spring Overture Shapes Plans In Madrid Iowa
Wayne Lyford notes how spring arouses readiness to tackle tasks while weather bounces between warmth and snow. The article also explains a colorimeter as an instrument used to analyze substances by color changes in chemical reactions.
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Wayne Lyford
Madrid
Iowa
Register
Shawnee Forest Shows Record Fire Safety This Year
Paul R. Larson says Shawnee National Forest logged only 20 small fires in the year to date, its best five year record. One blaze in the Jonesboro district protected 180000 acres across Union Alexander and Jackson counties, with caution urged on cigarettes and land-clearing fires. The January February period was wet, but March and April had several very high danger days.
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Shawnee National Forest
Paul R. Larson
Harrisburg
Jonesboro
Union
Alexander
Jackson
Larson
Open Bids for Southern Illinois University Library Site
Bids for general work on the $250,000 Southern Illinois University library site at Thompson and Chautauqua will open in Springfield on Tuesday May 16. The two story design features extensive glass walls, future vertical expansion, fluorescent lighting, and movable stack and reading areas as described by Dr. Robert H. Muller.
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Southern Illinois University
Springfield
State Division of Architecture and Engineering
Thompson and Chautauqua
Ediface
Robert H. Muller
University
Oilman Urges More Foreign Goods Buying At Chamber
Eugene Holman president of Standard Oil urged U S business leaders that to secure a stable peace the United States should increase imports within reason. He said five percent of national income for overseas goods could close Europe’s dollar gap and argued imports boost domestic prosperity and keep manufacturing employment by supplying raw materials and variety.
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Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
United States Chamber of Commerce
Eugene Holman
Chamber
Europe
Holman
Grass Roots Air Clinic Set for Marion Airport
A grass roots air clinic for Southern Illinois pilots and airport operators will be held Thursday at the Marion airport. Department Director Joseph K. McLaughlin says the meeting starts at 9 a.m. and runs to 3 p.m. Attendees include airmen from 30 counties and members of the State Board of Aeronautical Advisers.
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Marion
Southern Illinois
Illinois Aeronautics Department
Department
Joseph K. McLaughlin
Illinois
State Board of Aeronautical Advisers
Aeronautics Board
Jon Kelly
Kelly
Illinois Airport Owners & Operators Association
Director McLaughlin
Arthur E. Abney
N. Y. Alvis
Salem
Norman D. McCoy
Blue Mound
Leslie A. Bryan
Champaign
Q. Don Baily
Table Grove
Leslie C. Johnson
Rock Island
Gail Borden
Chicago
Alvis W. Ahrens
Lincoln
William Barry
Lake Forest
McLaughlin
Board of Aeronautical Advisors
Spoils System Draws Attack By Stevenson
Gov. Adlai Stevenson called for competence and economy over patronage in filling government posts during a Civil Service Assembly speech. He warned that if parties fail to improve public administration the people will replace managers and urged broadening party participation to reduce patronage pressures.
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Adlai Stevenson
Civil Service Assembly
United States
Canada
Stevenson
Standard Oil profile reveals company age and scope
The response shows Standard Oil Company (Indiana) turning 61 this June. It details operations from crude oil production to refining and distribution, notes 46,700 employees with average wages and tools, 96,800 stockholders, and the breakdown of spending 82.8 cents on materials and wages with 17.2 cents tax, plus broader community dependence and shareholder structure.
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Stan Zatorski
Whiting
Indiana
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Right
Edmund T. Whitefield
Richardson Bay
Marin City
Calif
Ed Muthaler
Whitefield
Camarillo
California
Shawnee
U. Library
Washington
Dr. Pepper Bottling Company
Murphysboro, III
Studebaker
America
Carbondale
Stephens Motor Sales Inc
East Main Street
Carbondale, Ml
Trator
Paul G. Hoffman
Hoffman
Airport
Vance Meyer
Metropolis
Gene Seibert
Earl Outland
Mount Vernon
William Denton
West Frankfort
Democratic Party
Ers
Standard Oil Company
Lee Swanson
Sidney
Montana
Klare Knudson
Minneapolis
Sam Reeve
Birmingham
Michigan
Joseph Carnwab
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