James Hilton Dies After Long Illness At Sea Side Hospital
Screenwriter and novelist James Hilton, 54, known for Goodbye Mr Chips and Lost Horizon, died after a lengthy illness in Sea Side Hospital Long Beach. He had lived in Long Beach a decade and entered hospital November 21 after an undisclosed infection. Hilton had suffered liver cancer per his physician. He was born September 9, 1900, in Leight England and moved between England and the United States seeking peace, with Shangri La shaping much of his work and fame.
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Tong Reach
James Hilton
Chips
Seaside
Hilton
Alice
Long Beach
David Wigod
Leight
Lancashire
England
Hollywood
America
Shangri-La
United States
U. S
James Doolittle
Tokyo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ronald Coleman
Robert Donat
Marlene Dietrich
Colman
Random Harvest
Donat
Composer's Later Works and Marital History Unfold in Long Beach
The article notes songs such as We Are Not Alone and Time and Time Again from the past decade after he settled in Long Beach. It recounts a 1935 Hollywood trip, a 1937 divorce from Alice Brown Hilton, and marriage to Galina Kopineck that same year, followed by their divorce in 1945.
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Dr. Wassell
Long Beach
Hollywood
Alice Brown Hilton
Galina Kopineck
Molasses Laden Fort Moultrie Sets Record Voyage
The tanker Fort Moultrie carried 17 574 tons of molasses from Hawaii to Houston and New Orleans, a new record says company officials.
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Honolulu CP
Fort Moultrie
Houston
Tex
New Orleans
Hawaii
Competitive Bidding Debate Over City Purchase
City council debates competitive bidding for a $4100 Burroughs calculating machine. Grosso and VanDusen clash over service and bid necessity while the measure passes unanimously. Other items approved include school and zoo supplies and milk price reporting deadlines.
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Council
Water Bureau
Harold Roderick
DR. Grosso
Roderick
VanDusen
Department of Public Instruction
Departeue of Public Instruction
Vo Pul Munuscuwee
iParks Department
Search of Plane Wreck Resumes
Navy divers resumed salvage operations in Jamaica Bay to recover the Italian airliner wreckage after a Saturday crash that killed 26. Yesterday, three bodies were recovered from the submerged site as salvage continued.
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New York
Jamaica Bay
Four‑engine airliner wreck at pier end recovery rises
Twelve bodies have been recovered after a four engine airliner struck the end of a pier on its fourth attempted landing. Rescue workers comb the wreckage to determine remaining missing passengers.
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Wee Eee
Radar Guided Landing At Idlewild In Rainy Mist
Aircraft makes a radar guided approach through rain and mist to Idlewild Airport. Safe landing reported with no injuries or damage disclosed.
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Idlewild
China Boy bantam rooster guards Gibson apartment
China Boy, a Chinese Cochin bantam rooster, acts as watchdog alarm clock and salad eater for Walter B. Gibson and his ex-magician wife Litz Ba. The bird clucks and flashes spurs at strangers arriving at the New York apartment.
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New York
Walter B. Gibson
Free-Lance
Litz Ba
China Boy
Gibson
Columbia University Opens as King's College Two Centuries Ago
The article marks Columbia University in New York State as the former King's College founded about 200 years ago. It notes its status as an early institution of higher education in the region.
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Columbia University
New York State
King’s College
Milk Price Forecast For New York Milkshed December
New York market official C J Blanford predicts a uniform price of 4 31 per hundredweight for milk delivered to approved plants in the New York milkshed in December With a 5 2 cent butterfat differential per tenth of a pound above or below the 3 5 per cent standard and an expected production of 572 million pounds the December price would fall 32 cents from November.
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BV Dee Que Blanford
New York
Biantford
C. J. Blanford
Blanford
Jail of His Own for Privacy
Freeport Maine resident George Hunter received a personal iron jail cage as a Christmas gift from wife Janet. The six by five foot cell sits behind his grain store, doubles as a safe and hiding place, and even accommodates a bed for his midday naps.
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Freeport
Maine
Janet Hunter
George
Hunter
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Neip
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Tenta
Ihe
J. P. Byrne Company
Cattaren
Scotland
Canada
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Dee
Misha
Continental Distilling Corporation
Philadelphia
Brunswick
Kalispell
Mont
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Clark, Music CO
S. Salina St
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WNEC
Cabinet
Red Cross
American National Red Cross
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