Penthouse Striker Diaries of Elevators and Celebrities
Earl Wilson jokes about strikers forcing penthouse residents to walk stairs. He cites Ed Luckenbach, Milton Berle, Fred Allen, Tony Farrell, and others in humorous vignettes about elevator duty, social climbers, and life above the city. The column weaves celebrity names with light satire on the effort of everyday mobility during a strike.
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Ed Luckenback
Toots Shor
Luckenbach
Fred Allen
Fred
Shriner
Milton Berle
Milton
Tony Farrell
Meyer Davis
Merging three mental health groups to form new National Association
Plans to unite the National Committee for Mental Hygiene the National Mental Health Foundation and the Psychiatric Foundation into the National Association for Mental Health were announced by Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles of Providence Rhode Island. The move standardizes mental health advocacy under a single umbrella organization.
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New York
Arthur H. Ruggles
Providence
R. 1
National Committee For Mental Hygiene, Inc
National Association For Mental Health
National Mental Health Foundation, Inc
The
Psychiatric Foundation
Inter American Congress Opens In New Orleans
Leaders of 22 Western Hemisphere cities meet in New Orleans for the third annual Inter American Congress of Municipalities to discuss city finance housing traffic and relations with national governments. The session marks a focus on municipal issues across the region.
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New Orleans
INS
Floods Threaten Winnipeg as Red River Levee Is Sandbagged
Volunteers fortified Winnipeg levees as floods advance on the Red River. Five and a half feet above flood stage, the river rose while inundating towns. ongoing sandbagging aimed to prevent further damage. In parallel, Trygve Lie weighed Moscow talks after meetings with Robert Schuman on East West differences. A French government plane en route from Algiers to Dakar went missing in the Sahara with 14 aboard including Paul Bechard, governor of French West Africa.
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Red River
Man
Paris
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Robert Schuman
London
Lie
Moscow
Casablanca
Morocco
Algiers
Dakar
Sahara Desert
Paul Bechard
French West Africa
Deaths of notable figures list prominent names
Dr Leland Ossian Hovvard an entomologist aged 92 formerly chief entomologist for the U S Agriculture Department in Bronxville Theodore Lothrop Stoddard editorial writer for the Washington Star and former Century Magazine editor died at 66 in Washington Vera Maxwell 58 the Bioride Venus of the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City Forest B Wilson 61 Tampa advertising executive and former owner of the Hicksville Daily Express died in Tampa Paul Laven 43 gag writer for a Bob Hope film and ex Cleveland reporter in Los Angeles Walter W Wilson 76 former Milwaukee Railroad controller who worked over 50 years died in Chicago Colonel George C Johnston 78 retired Army doctor and radio station owner in Crescent City California Douglas Maxwell Stanford 81 New York socialite turned laborer after fortune loss died in Morristown New Jersey.
Tehran strike closes Iran's only university amid student walkouts
In Tehran 4,000 students led a general strike that shut Iran's sole university. Earlier, 1,506 medical students at Tehran University walked out seeking better facilities for work. today, the remaining 2,500 students joined in solidarity, halting classes.
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Tehran
Iran
Tehran University
Parliament Delivers First Tie Vote In 50 Years
In London the Labour government survives a Conservative challenge as Parliament records its first tie vote in half a century. The 278 to 278 result was broken by Maj. James Milner, chairing the ways and means committee, amid a dispute over state trucking lines under the Ministry of Transport.
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London
ULP
Clement Attlee
Commons
Maj
James Milner
Labor
Ways and, Means Committee
Ministry of Transport
Peter Thorneycroft
Attlee
Liberal Party
Milner
Seven Hunted In Holdup Near Vanderbilt’s Widow
Seven masked bandits staged a $1,530 holdup at the home of Dr. Jose Negron Cesteros near Mrs. Cornelius Van derbilt. The gunmen looted a safe after forcing the wife to open it, believing a $50,000 fortune lay inside. Rogues gallery photos will be viewed by the doctor, his wife Harriet, and a patient who were tied with severed telephone wires.
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New York
INS
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jose Negron Cesteros
Harriet
Cesteros
Professor Burton Hail Meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo
Dr. Robert Burnett Hail of the University of Michigan, an expert on Japanese affairs, was received by Emperor Hirohito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The meeting marked a notable diplomatic gesture during postwar exchanges.
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Tokyo
Robert Burnett Hail
University of Michigan
Hirohito
Imperial Palace
One Man's Opinion On Pot Hole National Memorial
The piece jokes about a bill in Congress to dedicate a large Pennsylvania pothole as a national memorial. It notes Republican support likely, Democratic wording for the tablet, and quips about political spin and a potential use as a potato dump site. Rep. O'Neill is highlighted as a notable figure.
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Pennsylvania
O'Neill
Ex Official Moore, Longtime Philadelphia Leader, Dies at 86
Former Philadelphia mayor and seven term U S congressman J Hamp ton Moore died at 86 in his Germantown home after a two year illness. He served 1905 to 1919 in Congress and headed the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association from 1907 to 1947.
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J. Hampton Moore
U. S. Congress
Moore
Germantown
Adelaide Stone
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Roosevelt
Theodore
Cannon
Way to Curb a Rupture Free Home Method
A free offer describes a home method to curb a rupture used by Capt. W. A. Collings. Readers are invited to mail name and address to Box 221 E Watertown NY to receive the plan at no cost. The notice claims many readers reported satisfactory results and urges sending details immediately.
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W. A. Collings, Inc
Watertown
N. Y
Persecution Reported by 300 Jewish Refugees in Iran Kurdistan
About 12,000 Jews in Iranian Kurdistan face persecution with 12 murdered and several girls raped, according to 300 weary refugees who reached Tehran. A Jewish spokesman blames local Sunni religious fanatics for the anti Semitic acts amid Kurdistan’s dominant population group.
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Tehran
Iran
Iranian Kurdistan
Kurdistan
O Dwyer to Meet Pupils After Riot Protests in New York
Mayor William O Dwyer will meet a pupil delegation in New York to discuss the four day wave of rioting and demonstrations by thousands of high school students that prompted the talks.
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New York
Mayyoar
William O'Dwyer
Vermont Supreme Court to Rule on Old Poor Debtor Law
The Vermont State Supreme Court will hear full bench arguments today over the constitutionality of the 143 year old poor debtor law. The case tests whether the long standing statute meets modern constitutional standards as it affects debtors in Bennington and statewide.
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Vermont
State Supreme Court
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