Faulkner and Hawks Free-Wheeling Hollywood Mavericks
Hollywood obituaries note William Faulkner’s film work was not his proudest phase yet he spent much time in studios thanks to Howard Hawks. Hawks recalls discovering Faulkner and sending him to write Today We Live, with a long friendship built on their freewheeling, independent spirits. Faulkner also collaborated on Road to Glory To Have and Have Not The Big Sleep and The Land of the Pharaohs. He enjoyed hunting and fishing with Hawks and friends like Clark Gable, who once asked Faulkner to name the five best living writers, prompting a humorous exchange.
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Ben Hecht
Charlie MacArthur
Alexander Woollcott
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Faulkner
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Joan Crawford
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Clark Gable
Gable
Imperial Valley
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
Thomas Mann
John Dos Passos
Eight year old stops Space Needle restaurant rotation
An eight year old girl from Stamford Connecticut Mary Plunkett caused the Space Needle restaurant to halt as she caught her shoe between a partition and the turntable. Firemen freed her and she was taken to a hospital for precautionary x rays. The Space Needle restaurant completes one revolution each hour giving a city view.
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Seattle
Wash
Connecticut
Mary Plunkett
Stamford
N Folke Becker Dies at 70 President of Trees for Tomorrow
N Folke Becker, 70, president of Trees for Tomorrow, a paper industry sponsored reforestation program, died Friday in Rhinelander Wisconsin.
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Rhinelander, Wis
N. Folke Becker
Trees For Tomorrow
Virginia Hog Prices Likely to Hold Above Seasonal Peak
Virginia Department warns farmers that hog prices should dip only modestly in the coming weeks as February March and April farrowings shift. Despite new production patterns, prices have held steady with recent auction averages around 19 dollars in Richmond and Southeast Virginia and near 18.75 to 19 in Chicago and Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Lynchburg Arrests Prompt City Hearings For 23
Municipal court sessions will next Monday for 23 Negroes arrested early Saturday after a disturbance outside a dance hall. Twenty one face unlawful assembly charges, two women charged with resisting arrest, assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct. Patrolman Walter L. Farrow helped break up the crowd by firing a pistol into the air.
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Walter L. Farrow
Copes
Williams
Farrow
Fire Forces Plane Back To Idlewild
Sixteen Royal Dutch Airline passengers bound for Amsterdam had to return to Idlewild Airport after an engine fire. The pilot said the fire posed no imminent danger and it was quickly extinguished while the craft was aloft. passengers resume travel today.
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Royal Dutch
Amsterdam
Idlewild
Industrial leader Megowen dies at 63 in Toledo
Carl R. Megowen chairman of the executive committee of Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and a prominent figure in American glass industry died Saturday in Toledo at age 63 from a heart attack.
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Toledo, Ohio
Carl R. Megowen
Owens-Illinois Glass Co
Market Report from Baltimore and Chicago Cattle and Hogs
Cattle market shows slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to higher with led vice stronger bids on choice lots. Hogs firm to higher with barrows and gilts up 25-50 cents, sows scarce but steady, commodity volumes and dealers monitoring supply. Illinois and New York trading features include mixed results for steers, heifers, cows and bulls, with United Financial and IBM among gainers as Dow trends up.
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Sheep Market Prices See Cull to Good Range Decline
Livestock quotes show cull to good ewes priced between 14.00 and 21.00 dollars, with shorn slaughter ewes at 4.00 to 5.00 dollars. The report lists bid levels for choice animals 21.00 to 22.50, indicating softened demand for mature shedding stock.
British Actor Cedric Farwell Hospitalized in Hollywood
Sir Cedric, 69, admitted July 11 for an upper respiratory ailment described as good. He is expected to recover within a few days according to Hollywood reports.
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Lexington app closes era as famed ot racing trainer dies
Lexington report says Thom as Sylvester Berry, 80, legendary driver and trainer in oat racing, died Saturday. Berry shaped sport with decades of success, mentoring many riders and contributing to the racing community in Kentucky.
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Lexington, Ky
Thomas Sylvester Berry
Kennedy Jr to Stay With Grandmother for August
John Kennedy Jr. will spend a couple of weeks in August with grandmother Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss at Hammarsmith Farm Newport Rhode Island. While his mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and sister Caroline visit Princess Lee Radziwill and family on the Italian Riviera. John Jr. turns two on November 25.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr
Hugh D. Auchincloss
Hammarsmith Farm
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