Who's the funniest man in the world nominees listed
The piece collects quotes from Walt Disney Groucho Marx Bob Hope George Burns Red Skelton and others on who tops the humor charts. Skelton jokes he is second and there are 9000 claimants to first. Disney notes old jokes and the lack of new gags while praising Cinderella and So Dear to My Weer and recalling a 1870s Dowty quip about Thomas A Beckett.
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Walt Disney
Groucho Marx
Bob Hope
George Burns
Red Skelton
Skelton
Fred Allen
W. C. Fields
Baby Leroy
Fields
George Jessel
Wilson Mizner
Jessel
Sterling North
Disney
Cinderella
Dan Patch
Lefis
Figaro
Dowty
Thomas A. Breckett
Thomas A. Beckett
City bids 200000 for GOP convention in fifty two
Midnight Earl reports that N. City has entered a bid with a $200000 guarantee to host the 1952 Republican convention. The U S S America is slated to attempt a trans Atlantic record on its England return. Rocky Graziano begins training next week at Stillman’s for out of town fights. Jay Jostyn and Mr D A will take the road show of Mary Dugan with radio sponsor. Dick Wilson advises praising your wife occasionally even if it scares her at first.
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U.S.S
America
England
Rocky Graziano
Stillman's
Jay Jostyn
D.A
Radio
Mary Dugan
Dick Wilson
Notable Deaths and a Rescue Dog Story
Obituaries note the deaths of Dr Eugene Allen Noble 33 former Jul March Musical Foundation executive secretary and former president of Goucher College and Dickinson College. Merbert A Taylor 71 Erie Railroad lawyer and VP died in Little Compton Rhode Island. Albert D Martin 53 former NY Hardware Association president died in Rochester. Edgar Burns Smith 77 former high school principal and 1947 Massachusetts Principals Association president died in Greenfield. A Great Dane was found a mile at sea near Quincy Mass rescued by George and Kenneth McManus who fed it hamburger after it was exhausted and seaworthy questions remain about how it drifted so far from shore.
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Eugene Allen Noble
Goucher College
Baltimore
Dickinson College
Carlisle
New York City
Merbert A. Taylor
The
Erie Railroad
Little Compton
Edgar Bur Smith
Greenfield
Mass
Brattleboro
Int
Quincy
George
Kenneth McManus
VFW seeks legal shield for news gatherers in New York
The New York VFW delegates approved a resolution calling for state and federal laws to protect privileged and confidential disclosures by editors reporters and radio commentators. The item appeared among several at the 29th annual VFW convention in Saratoga Springs.
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V.F.W
Saratoga Springs
New York
Veterans For Foreign Wars
Sherod
State Senate Confirms 18 Driscoll Appointments
New Jersey Senate approved 18 appointments by Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll to aid in state government reorganization effective July 1 and to support the New Jersey court system starting September 15. Separate items note a Stratford Conn. motorist fined for a courtroom slap that killed her father-in-law, and Blaw-Knox to acquire Foote Company of Nunda, New York. General Electric nearing Brockport plant purchase for electrical appliances with 500 jobs anticipated.
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New Jersey Senate
Reencon
N. J
INS
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Stratford
Conn
Virginia M. Lajoie
Bridgeport
Russell
John Hanrahan
Hanrahan
She ‘Lajoles
Ig.e
Brockport
Canon
General Electric Company
N. Y
Rochester
H. L. Andrews
G.E. Appliance
Inflation in China Tops Talks as Chiang Seeks Stabilization
Chinese leaders including President Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss halting inflation amid a yuan turmoil. The underground market pegs one dollar at 3.8 million yuan while official rates stand at 474 thousand. In Sweden, Foreign Minister Anders Oesten Anden told the Diet that nations may stay neutral in future conflict and praised American aid to Europe.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Stockholm
INS
Oesten
Anden
Sweden
iEurope
Vote Decides Nuns Right As Teachers In North Dakota
In North Dakota voters faced a biennial primary with issues including a ballot measure under the initiative law to bar public school teachers from wearing religious garb. About 72 of the state’s over 6,500 teachers are nuns, while races feature Republican factions and a noncompetitive Democratic slate for November.
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Bismark
N. D
North Dakota
Republican Organizing Committee
Nonpartisan League
Bipartisan Human Policy Proposed
Paul Miller of Gannett Newspapers urged Kiwanis members to support a bipartisan policy emphasizing human and spiritual values over material ones. He cited growing worldwide understanding and called for broader truthful news to reveal the mess after two world wars and the looming threat of a third.
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Malone GP
Paul Miller
Gannett
Hev
hLkioaos Club
Miller
Kiwanis
Elizabeth Ends Public Outings
Princess Elizabeth has halted public appearances until after her baby's birth in October. She attended her last public event yesterday at Banstead Wood in Surrey to open an annex of the Queen Elizabeth hospital for children.
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Tondon
Eizebeth
Banstead Wood
Surrey
Queen Elizabeth Hospital For
Fire Destroys Pruett Schaffer Chemical Plant
A naptha and paint drum explosion caused a 150000 dollar fire at the Pruett Schaffer Chemical Co. plant. The facility was leveled and dozens of residents evacuated from nearby homes. Two people were injured in the blaze.
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Pectsburgr CP
Pruett- Schaffer Chemical Co
Lloday
Sing Sing Inmate Missing From Roll Call
Sing Sing prison officials searched the 1800 inmate facility for Francis Higgins a 27 year old burglar missing from last night's count. It was the first time since 1941 a prisoner was unaccounted for at Sing Sing.
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Ossining
Arabs Charge U S Attack After Warship Shells Arab Lines
Syria protests to the United States and to UN mediator Count Bernadotte over an American warship shelling Arab positions near Al Barwa during a Jewish attack three days earlier. Mohsen Al Barazi, in Cairo for the Arab League talks, named Fawzi Pasha Aliaukiji as the Arab command involved. State Department in Washington had no official word on the protest.
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Cairo
Syria
Palestine
Arab League
United Nations
Mohsen al Barazi
United States
Folke Bernadotte
U. S
Bernadotte
Six Queens Bus Lines Face Strike Threat
Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri hopes for a settlement today to avert a strike threatened for Thursday on six Queens bus lines carrying about 450 000 passengers daily. Conferences yesterday failed to settle disputes between two unions and the companies.
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New York
Vincent FR. Impellitteri
Queens
UMW Unit Charged Over West Virginia Mine Tieup
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Robert N. Denham filed an unfair labor practice charge against District 31 of the United Mine Workers. The unit allegedly blocked mine entrances and barred nonunion workers from surface until signing UMWA cards during the six week pension dispute shutdown in March.
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Washington
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
District 31
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Denham
U.M.W
West Virginia
Sightseers Hurt In Montreal Horse Carriage Accident
Mr and Mrs J Linnegan of New York City were injured in a fall from a horse drawn carriage hired for a sightseeing tour in Montreal. They suffered abrasions and other injuries in the rare urban accident yesterday.
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Montreal
J. Linnegan
New York City
War Munitions Board assigns 11000 plants to services
Rochester report says 11,000 plants have been allocated under the Industrial Mobilization Program to one or more armed services. Thomas J. Hargrave of Eastman Kodak told the Rochester Bar Association that the plan aims to avoid WWII style confusion and would cover about 90 percent of U S war production.
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Rochester
Vhe
U. S. War Munitions Board
Thomas J. Hargrave
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester Bar Association
Wargrave
U. S
Reserve Pay Bill Signed by President Truman
President Truman signed retirement benefits for reserve officers and enlisted men of the Army Air Force and Navy. He said the bill opens the way to an integrated reserve force and urged regular services to work with reserves as partners in national defense.
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Washington (P
Truman
Army
Air Force
Navy
United States
Waterloo Girl Wins Mayoral Role at Empire Girls State
Alicia Ellis of Waterloo won the mayoral post at Empire Girls State in Saratoga Springs with the Nationalist ticket sweeping to office. The Federalists led by Sheriff Wilmonte Nash of Tian captured four of six county offices.
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Saratoga Springs
Alicia, Ellis
Waterloo
Empire Girls
Wilmonte Nash
Tian
Harvester Strike Expands at International Harvester Plants
More than 30 000 United Farm Equipment Workers struck 12 International Harvester Co plants at midnight, ending a 30 day contract extension. Picket lines formed while negotiations continued under a Federal labor conciliator.
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Chicago
C.I.0
United Farm Equipment Workers
Intentional Harvester Co
Auburn Workers Will Stay Out
C I O employees at the International Harvester plant in Auburn will stay away from work until a new contract is reached in Chicago.
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Auburn
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Mechanic jailed after 90 mph homemade car case
In Van Nuys California a 19 year old mechanic, James A Seaberry, pleaded guilty to reckless driving driving an unsafe vehicle and driving an unregistered vehicle. Police clocked his home made car at 90 mph and found it had no fenders bumpers running boards tail light or hand brake and the steering gear was loose. Seaberry said he built the car from junk yard parts.
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van Nuys
Calif
Themechanic
James A. Seaberry
Seaberry
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