Brooklyn Notes and Questions on Culture and Craft
A column mixes chatter on Ruth Etting performances and a snowbound Brooklyn scene with Q A on Gus Van and Joe Schenck vaudeville links. It debates beard glamour, New Year noise, and a defense of Brooklyn as a baseball epicenter before Leo Durocher era.
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Van
Joe Schenck
Brooklyn
Billy West
Mae
Billy
Clark Gable
Gable
Joe Smith
Vaudevillians
Avon Comedy Four
Jack Pearl
Sharley
Marta Abba
Milan
Italy
Tovarich
Pirandello
Busts of Harry S Truman and Henry A Wallace Ordered for Capitol
Architect David Lynn presented two marble busts of Vice Presidents Harry S Truman and Henry A Wallace to Senate rules committee, purchased for 2500 dollars each under a law mandating their placement in the Capitol. The statues will share a marble niche in the senate wing.
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Washington
David Lynn
Capitol
Harry 8. Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Senate Committee On Rules and Administration
Senate
Lynn
Stogie Department Notes on Slogan and 1947 Racing Favorites
The column cites a whisky label slogan eight years old and credits lyrics to Will Hough with Frank R. Adams for the ballad I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now. It notes steeplechase favorites win more often than flat runners with a 1947 season record of 39 percent jumping favorites versus 35 percent flat.
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Will Hough
Joe Howard
Frank R. Adams
Hough
King Features
Prof Cites Physics To Prove Innocence
Hayatttville Md January 1 A former Princeton mathematics professor planned to appeal a $100 speeding fine by citing physics. Haig Galajikian 60 of Aberdeen Md says the law of physics shows the trooper could not have stopped and turned around to pull him over within 244 miles. Magistrate Arthur Owens disagreed and upheld the $100 fine.
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Hayattville
Princeton
Haig Galajikian
Aberdeen
Early Griffin
Griffin
Arthur P. Owens
Galajikian
Marshall Named Man Of Year by Time Magazine
Secretary of State George C. Marshall was named man of the year by Time magazine in New York. The announcement highlighted his role in postwar policy and international diplomacy.
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Marshall
Man of
New York
George C. Marshall
Time
State Guards Over 200000
Washington reports the national guard reached 208 374 men by year end 1947, up from 19 703 at the start. The 1948 budget plans 271 000 guard strength by July with 21 000 in air units.
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Washington
Jan
National Guard
Guard
Story Of Nine Wives Proves To Be Boast
Phoenix, January 1. The sheriff's office released Francis Joseph Bressi, 23, of Brooklyn, who claimed he had married nine girls eight of them bigamously. Inquiries failed to substantiate his boast and no marriages were found.
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Phoenix
Sheriff's Office Today
Francis Joseph Bressi
Brooklyn
Bressi
Buckets in New Steam Turbines Outpace Rifle Bullets
In modern steam turbine designs the turbine buckets rotate at speeds rivaling a rifle bullet. Engineers note these high-velocity components improve efficiency but raise precision and safety considerations for operation and maintenance.
American Airlines Cuts Plane Order
American Airlines said it reduced its Convair liner order from 100 to 75 by mutual agreement with Consolidated-Vultee. Deliveries were behind schedule as the manufacturer faced fulfillment problems.
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New York
American Airlines
Consolidated-Vultee
Thief Fined 510 Dollars For 20 Cent Purse Snatch
William O. Kelley, 24, arrested in Monon for snatching a woman's purse containing 20 cents. He was fined 510 dollars and given a 180 day sentence at the state farm.
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