Earl Wilson on Monroe, whistle jokes, and Hollywood chatter
The column relays anecdotes about Marilyn Monroe and industry figures, noting Monroe’s staying power and a humorous exchange about whistle, with references to producers Lester Cowan Groucho and humorist lines. It also mentions Jane and Samm, a Hollywood press agent, and Colman Jacoby’s quip about infidelity.
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Groucho
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Montgome
Sis
Will in Poetry West Cliff on Sea George Tozer
Fragmentary verse shows a man declaring a will with fealty to his wife and goods. The lines hint at distributing earthly possessions and gifts, though text is garbled and incomplete.
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West Cliff-On
George Tozer
Fractured Wires and Strikes Stir New York Labor Scene
Disjointed report notes six persons struck at Rouse in New York as Bell Syndicate agencies plan a return to work tomorrow. Corry Pennsylvania worker Bakes, 28, is cited amid notes of postmen, guilds, and reelect campaigns in a unsettled labor climate.
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Bell Syndicate
Wasiter Guild
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Students appeal to Truman for rooms at MU
A GPA group of University of Missouri students evicted from federal funded dorms sought help from President Truman and Congress to provide housing for women students. Other items report a fatal furnace fire in Cleveland Heights, a Wilmington meat plant closure over livestock pricing, a body found in Williston, a Long Beach quake, a Catalina Island plane crash, a paralyzed dachshund chasing, and Famously Roosevelt’s great grandchild pregnancy news.
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Columsbia
Mogpa
University of Missouri
Congress
Constellation Crashes Near Idlewild Airport Scene Report
Report describes a National Airlines four engine DC 3 or DCH en route from Norfolk to Newark and a small single engine military plane colliding near Idlewild. Inspectors and crew surveyed the wreckage while passengers and accompanying crew were identified.
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Idlewied
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National Air Lines
Norfolk
Newark
Jet engine sale to U S claimed by Danish engineer
Copenhagen reports a Danish engineer Henning Rosengert has allegedly invented a jet engine and intends to sell it to the U S Air Force for several million dollars. The claim appears in the Social Demokraten newspaper.
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U.S. Copenhagen
Copenhagen
U. S
Printing craftsman of 61 page Time Capsule booklet
Ideaths Howard W. Coggshall, a printing craftsman whose plant produced a 61 page booklet sealed in the Time Capsule buried in the 1929 World's Fair site, is noted in the obituary. The article highlights his role in the project and his involvement with the printing industry and the event.
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Howard W. Coggeshall
Air Crash Near Philadelphia Claims Crew and Passengers
In New Jersey near Philadelphia a deadly air crash destroyed an airliner. Two bodies recovered by nightfall, with others presumed dead. Authorities move remains to Bordentown Mount Holly and Palmyra as Fay Meyrey is named as the sole eye witness.
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Iles
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Bordentown
Mount Helly
Palmyra
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