Pearl Bailey Sees Show Business Devouring Itself
Hollywood star Pearl Bailey criticizes the entertainment industry for failing to nurture new talent. She notes a lack of apprenticeships since vaudeville and recounts funding her own 40‑person show at Cocoanut Grove. Bailey aims to revive live entertainment and revive theater work.
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Hollywood
Pearl Bailey
Pearlie May
Pennsylvania
Pearl
the Grove
Chicago
Echo satellite faces fiery death from solar pressure drift
In Pasadena AP reports the Echo balloon satellite loses altitude due to sunlight pressure. At launch on Aug 12 its perigee was 945 miles now 930 miles, dropping about 2.2 miles daily, risking atmospheric reentry within about 450 days per Duane Muhiman of JPL.
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Pasadena
Calif
Echo
Duane Muhiman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ABC Drops Clark Show. Roaring 20s Set to Replace
ABC will drop Dick Clark’s weekly show from its schedule with the Dick Clark Show ending Sept. 10. American Bandstand remains on air in the afternoon slot. A new one hour program The Roaring 20s will replace Clark on Saturdays starting Oct. 15.
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New York
Dick Clark
American Broadcasting Co
ABC
Clark
San Quentin prisoner art sale draws $8600 in bids
Third annual San Quentin Prison Arts and Crafts show netted eight thousand six hundred dollars with inmates receiving ninety percent of sales and ten percent to the welfare fund. Attendance reached ten thousand over two days with visitors from eighty five California cities, twenty eight states and eight foreign countries.
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San Quentin
Calif
San Quentin Prison
California
Community Reels From Tragedy In Wilmont Minnesota
A highway crash killed five women and one man near Wilmont leaving 38 orphans. The Worthington Daily Globe and Wilmont Tribune launch an orphans fund with local churches, a bank, and benefactors planning aid and guardianship to keep the family together on the farms and in the town 14 miles from Worthington.
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John A. Lundquist
Wilmont
Minn
Minnesota
Worthington Daily Globe
Wilmont Tribune
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
A. T. Perrizo
E. L. Meyer
Worthington
Sin Autones
John Voss
Loloa
Dennis
Marveena
David
Vincent Holloran
Voss
John
Ted Voss
Martha
Donald
Davenport
Iowa
Shirley
Eldon Reisdorfer
Mag
Nolia
Dren
Judy
Diane
Billy
Wanda
Jeanie
Larry Bunkers
Sandra
Bunkers
LaDean
Charlene
John Schroer
Pacific
Peg
Billy Brooks
Huron
S. D
Sonya
Alfred Hebig
Schroer
State case in Finch Tregoff retrial winds down
Los Angeles prosecutors expect to close the state's case by Wednesday in the retrial of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff for the ambush slaying of Barbara, an estranged wife. Deputy Dist Atty Clifford Crail said about a dozen witnesses remain before the defense presents its side.
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Los Angeles
Finch-Tregoff
Clifford D. Crail
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Barbara
Coast Guard Structure During Peacetime and War
The U. S. Coast Guard operates under the Treasury Department in peacetime and comes under the Navy Department during wartime.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Treasury Department
Navy
Tigonish Name Meaning Unearthed From Indigenous Word
The Nova Scotian town of Tigonish derives its name from a Mac Indian term meaning the place where branches were off trees by bears beechnuts.
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Nova
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