New Coast Guard Captain and Wife Join Thomasville Authors
Captain G. P. McGowan and Mrs. McGowan have moved to Thomasville joining the local literary circle. The former war prize skipper of a Nazi sailing vessel and author of The Skipper and the Eagle, they previously lived in New Orleans and Merida before touring local hotels and homes on Tuxedo Drive.
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Emily BR. Jerger
Thomasville
Abses
G. P. McGowan
McGowan
Coast Guard
New York
U. S
New Orleans
Merida
Norman Hopkins
McGowan and Mrs McGowan Move to Thomasville Home
Capt. and Mrs. McGowan have settled in a new Thomasville residence after living in Savannah and touring multiple towns. Neighbors and friends, including John Crawford and Miss Rebecca Bridgers, welcomed the couple who join Glen Arven Country Club and plan to host friends from Coast Guard days as a new book on McGowan’s experiences nears publication.
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Rebecca Bridgers
McGowans
Glen’ Arven Country Club
Duplicate Bridge
Clu
Jong
Coast Guard
McGowan
Thomasville
Capt. McGowan
Susie
Pelham High Names 17 Students to Honor Roll
Seventeen Pelham High students are named to the honor roll after achieving A averages with no grade below 87. Principal G A Scruggs announces that medals will be awarded to honor roll students for both semesters, while certificates go to all others.
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Pelham
Pelham High ‘School
G. A. Scruggs
Studit
Kitsy Flynt
Harriett Glenn
Elaine Strickland
Barbara Dawson
Sunny Harris
Jean Sauls
Marline Nauhauser
Billy Darley
Clair Story
Laure Ann Jones
Cherrie Thomas
Ann Whaley
Shirley Bullach
Kaye Jennings
Delores Williamson
Lise Horsemann
Sara Holton
Azaleas Bloom at Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile
Thousands visit Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile for the Azalea Trail Festival as the 60 acre estate displays about 250 000 azaleas in February and March. The gardens, opened in 1932 by Walter D and Bessie Morse Bellingrath, feature a range from dwarf Kemine to Pride of Mobile with some bushes reaching 20 feet in height. Visitors also tour the historic Bellingrath Home and enjoy related events like America's Junior Miss Pageant and Mardi Gras during the festival.
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Mobile
Ala
Bellingrath Gardens
Deep South
Bellingrath
Walter D
Bessie Morse Bellingrath
Isle Aux Oles
Persons Heyer
We Gardens
Fred Holder
Theodore
Alabama
Joyce Ann Miller Engaged to William Clinton Pyles
Mr and Mrs Ralph N Miller of Whigham announce the engagement of their daughter Joyce Ann to William Clinton Pyles son of Mr and Mrs Culven Pyles Cairo. The wedding is set for Friday April 8 at 8 PM at the First Methodist Church Cairo.
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Cairo
Joyce Ann Miller
Whigham
William Clinton
Pyles
Ralph N. Miller
Joyce Ann
William Clinton Pyles
Culven Pyles
2Nd Avenue
N. E
First Methodist
Little Mary Sunshine hits off Broadway sellout at Orpheum
Sweet and sour frame the run as Little Mary Sunshine becomes a sudden off Broadway hit at the Orpheum Theater in Greenwich Village. A heavy advance sale and union concessions limit performances to 199 seats, with 100 seats roped off each night.
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New York
Sweet and Sour
Orpheum Theater
Greenwich Village
Galaxy
Friends Reunite After 60 Years Apart in Photo
Anthony Masillo found a photo in the Atlantic City Press showing a man and his wife celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. A phone call confirmed the two men, Masillo and Michael Alulse, were childhood friends from Philadelphia who had not spoken in six decades.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Anthony R. Masillo
Mazillo
Michael Alulse
Philadelphia
All Female Cast Planned for Broadway Drama
New York AP reports next autumn Broadway will stage a drama with an all female cast titled Two Queens of Love and Beauty by Bill Hoffman. The play centers on two beautiful women who become infuriated against world violence and requires an eight woman cast. Celeste Holm is considering a starring role.
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New York
Bill Hoffman
Celeste Holm
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