Jane Froman Triumphs Over Plane Crash Ordeal in Film
Hollywood column details Jane Froman surviving a 1943 Gisbon Portugal crash that killed 25 and left her with severe injuries. Despite 25 operations and $350,000 in care she later starred in With a Song in My Heart with Susan Hayward, and began rebuilding career as adviser, singer, and potential TV host.
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Hollywood
Jane Froman
Jane
Gisbon
Portugal
Miss Froman
Europe
Roxy Theatre
Tagus River
Susan Hayward
Rory Cahoun
John Burn
Miami
New York
Veterans of Last Winter's Fighting To All Come Home
Gen. J Lawton Collins told Senator Dworshak that all U S soldiers must be home before winter. He said there is no satisfactory alternative but to use Guardsmen now in federal service to meet a pressing manpower problem. He noted rotation of overseas personnel and that about 30,000 men and officers must be replaced each month.
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Washington
U. S
J Lawton Collins
Dworshak
Idaho
Collins
Korea
Holy Name Men Seek Assembly Action on Obscene Books
The Tidewater Chapter of the Holy Name Society asks the Virginia General Assembly to enact stringent laws prohibiting the sale of obscene books and lewd pictures. A spokesman for Catholic War Veterans urged Holy Name members to join the effort as a fast growing evil. The Catholic War Veterans plan to press the same request at the diocesan convention in Richmond on September 29–30.
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Norfolk
Tidewater
Hoy Name Society
Virginia General Assembly
Catholic War Veterans
Holy Name
Holy Name Societies
Richmond
Local Farmers Name Teddy Kilowatt Perfect Hired Hand
Farmers vote Teddy Kilowatt as ideal helper with electricity available to over 90 percent of the area. Reddy never grumbles and wages are low. Potomac Light and Power Company Eastern Electric subsidiaries named.
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Teddy Kilowatt
Reddy
Murphy Coorp plans stock exchange with Morris 5 and 10 stores
G C Murphy Co disclosed it asked the Indiana Securities Commission to approve a plan to exchange stock with Morris 5 and 10 cent to $1 Stores Inc. of Bluffton Indiana. Morris Co operates 71 units across several states and posted sales of about 34 million in 1950. Murphy forged 219 stores in multiple eastern states with 1950 sales around 150.5 million.
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Mckeesport Pa
G. C. Murphy Co
Indiana Securities Commission
Bluffton
Ind
Morris Company
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Murphy
G. C. Murphy
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
New York
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Secret Agent X-9
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MR. Corrigan
Big Sister
Etta Kett
Byles Forgrave
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Potomac Edison
Bystem
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Potomac Edises Co
Northern Virginia Power Ga
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Northern Virginia Power CO
Bluko
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America
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Studebaker
Estre
Cather Motors, Inc
E. Piccadilly St
Winchester
Trailways
Front Royal Cul A
Fredericks
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