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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1950
Page
4
Readers praise a Washington art show featuring nearly 200 pieces across painting sculpture and metalwork. Instructor Doris Yordy guides students toward creative expression and new ways to view art beyond traditional methods.
The Hopalong Cassidy drama Pride of the West plays at the Fox Theatre last night. William Boyd stars as the frontier hero amid a cattlemen versus stage robbers plot centered on protecting the lifeline of the Old West.
Dorothy stands out as a desirable patient for any doctor in a film described as aided by a slick supporting cast led by June Havoc and Gary Merrill. Fred Kohlmar produced the Twentieth Century Fox picture.
Dorothy McGuire and William Lundigan star in Mother Didn’t Tell Me a domestic medical comedy. The couple’s moving performance and witty scenes, guided by Claude Binyon, drive the film’s appeal as they adapt to married life with humor.
Senator Robert Taft endorsed Senator Arthur Vandenberg's plan for a nonpartisan commission to study foreign policy. He warned the panel must be impartial and not merely a branch of the state department. The proposal, tied to evaluating the point four program, was outlined in a letter to ECA head Paul Hoffman.
A 24 hour dock strike called by the Communist led General Confederation of Labor halted traffic in several French ports as 35,000 stevedores quit work. Cherbourg ships remained at work while Marseille Le Havre Bordeaux and others saw mostly stoppages. Police and guards patrolled docks amid concerns over arms shipments to Atlantic Pact nations and Indo China.
Andy Devine, known for comedy not romance, performs a sultry kiss scene opposite Adele Jergens in Columbia's The Traveling Saleswoman at the Fox Theatre. The sequence has Devine’s style likened to Valentino and Boyer as Adele reacts with a playful laugh.
The American Miller bound for Le Havre was canceled due to today’s strike and ordered to return directly to the United States from Liverpool, England. The government kept the matter secret as lines were affected by the disruption.
The region in southern Argentina known as Patagonia earned its name from early explorers who marveled at unusually large footprints found along the land extending south from the pampas.
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