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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
3
A lively letter-style piece praising the Technicolor epic Samson and Delilah starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature. The writer hypes action, muscular closeups, and pageantry, notes Cecil B DeMille’s touch, condemns a few artistic choices, and sighs at the battle scenes and costume spectacle. Also comments on horse racing pension ideas with Shadda Haddim.
Charles Campbell has the softest part on Broadway in Clutterbuck with no lines to learn. Pred Allen tells John Crosby that being out of work on radio lets you live on money saved on aspirin. A quirky note mentions a man distilling bathtub gin to shave with and another who digs up water for a tough source.
The agriculture department finds that 40 percent of farms in the United States had telephones as of July 1, 1949, up from 7 percent in 1948. The survey highlights rapid gains in farm communications and modernizing rural infrastructure.
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