Spartacus Brings Ancient Rome to Vivid Screen
The Drive In Theatre launches Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and Lawrence Olivier. Brona Productions and Universal-International recreated ancient Rome with 27 tons of materials and 2,500 workers, building sets, costumes, and 250,000 man hours for the epic saga of Spartacus and Varinia.
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Rome
Kirk Douglas
Laurence Olivier
Jean Simmons
Charles Laughton
Peter Ustinov
John Gavin
Tony Curtis
Spartacus
Varinia
Battle For Supremacy
Brona Productions
Universal - International
Europe
Dience
Hollywood
Universal
Swartacus
Stanley Kubrick
Filmland
Alex North
Rudolf Hess Arrives in Scotland by Plane May 10 1941
Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy Fuhrer, flew to Scotland landing by air on May 10 1941 in a solitary high profile mission. His arrival sparked immediate political shocks and prompted government responses across Britain.
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Rudolf Hess
Scoland
Disney's Summer Magic Brightens Grand Theatre Run
Hayley Mills Burl Ives and cast star in Walt Disney's Summer Magic a Technicolor musical about the Carey family facing loss and the Beulah Maine mushrooming chaos. The film features Una Merkel Dorothy McGuire Deborah Walley and Peter Brown and runs four days starting Sunday at the Grand Theatre.
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Walt Disney
Dorothy McGuire
Una Merkel
Haviey Mills
Deborah Walley
Peter Brown
Eddie Hodges
Mr. Ives
Miss Mills
Mr. Hodges
United States
Europe
Australia
Orient
Ives
Carey
Harley Mills
Burl Ives
State Fair Sewing Festival Showcases 3 V’s of Fashion
The 1963 State Fair in Dallas runs October 5–20 featuring the Women’s Department Sewing Fashion Festival. It highlights variety in fabrics, versatility in patterns, and verve in presentation across 35 garments. Ten pattern companies supply color schemes while Singer Sewing Machines and Talon Zippers present pattern interpretations. About 30,000 attendees are expected for free shows daily at the State Fair’s Women’s Building.
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Dallas
Lean Jarrout
State Fair Women’s Cevartment
Singer Sewing Machines
Talon
Fabrice
American Silk Mills
Ameritex
Amby-Cantoni
Avondale
Burlington
Cohama
Forstmann
Gottschalk, Heller, Kaplan
Logantex
Millikin, Martin and
Rosewood
Marian Ross
The
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Sagerton and Albany Churches Hold Parish Meeting
The dual parish of Zion Lutheran Lagerton and Trinity Lutheran Albany held a picnic and meeting at Rice Springs Park Hasell with members from both congregations. Local residents and visiting families attended gatherings, with several mentions of local hospitality, travel, and family events across Sagerton Albany and surrounding areas.
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Sagerton
Albany
Marvin Stegemoeller
Susan
Brenda
Marla
Dennis
Tulsa
Cfe
Stegemoeller
Lerm Stegemoeller
Hoe Clark
Stamford Hospital
Zion Lutheran
Lagerton
Trinity Lutheran
Rice Springs Park
Haskell
Former Stamford Resident Dies in Fort Worth at 74
Faith Newman Watson, 74, longtime Stamford area resident and former telephone company employee, died August 10 in Fort Worth. She was born August 8, 1889 in Kansas, moved to Stamford as a child, and is survived by six children, four sisters, and one brother. Funeral and burial were in Fort Worth on August 13.
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Jacek Tabor
Karen
Vanessa
Bill
Fort Worth
John L. Brooks
Buekla Mae Summers
Judy Guinn
Jimmy New
Lubbock
J. M New
Doc Jones
Rule
A. C. Knipling
J. B. Toney
West Columbia
Toney
Dorothy Knipling
August Balzer
Douglas Cornelson
Schulenburg
Mr. Balzer
Paul Goldammer
Jay Roy Watson
F. O. Purcell
Leeders
C. A. Corley
Watson
Faith Newman
Kansas
Stameford
R. L. Newman
Telephone Company
Stamford
Mrs Montgomery Attends Floydada Funeral for Brother
Mrs J M Montgomery visited daughter Mrs R H Astin and learned of her brother S M Crawford’s death. She and Mrs Astin attended the funeral in Floydada. A month earlier her 86 year old sister had died.
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J. M. Montgomery
R. H. Astin
Mr. Astin
Major Piwetz Joins Swift Strike Combat Training
Major Elwin T. Piwetz of Stamford is among more than 88 000 participants in Swift Strike TIT a U S Strike Command exercise across North and South Carolina through August 16 He is an Air Force intelligence officer assigned to a TAC unit at MacDill AFB Fla and will return after the exercise He is son of Edward T Pinett of Fort Worth Texas and his wife is Elsie F Hanks of Stamford
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Elwin T. Piwetz
Stamford
U. S. Strike Command
North
South Carolina
Piwetz
Elsie F. Hanks
T. H. Gentry
Vassar
Tactical Air Command
TAC
MacDill Afb
Fla
Air Force
Swift Strike
Carolina
Edward T. Pinett
Fursman, Fort Worth, Tex
Stamford duo to receive degrees at Herdin-Simmons commencement
Two Stamford residents Earnest E. Armstrong of 912 S Wetherbee and Butie L Hargrove of Avoca will be honored at Herdin Simmons Universitys commencement exercises. Armstrong will earn a Masters in Education and Hargrove a Bachelor of Science.
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Stamford
Priday
Herdin-Simmons University
Ernest E. Armstrong
S. Wetherbee
Butie L. Hargrove
Avoca
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Walt Disney Comedy
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Redlands
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F A. Stegemoeller
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Edward Nienast
Herbert Koch
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Austin
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Richard
Ron Roger
Janis Francis - Prentiss
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Perry
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Woolher Bros
Hercules
Fay
Spain
Techwicglor
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Walt Disney Summer Magic
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