Stonington High School - Pawmystonian Yearbook (Pawcatuck, CT)

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From Stream to Stomach, a cook book on fish by that culinary artist, Esther Sarrasin . . . David Noble and Aldora johnson, the world's great- est dancers since Astaire and Rogers, will be seen cur- rently in their own Broadway hit, All Arouiid the Town . . . Flash!! Germany . . . Professor Italiano has suc- ceeded in smashing the minutetron, the smallest radi- activity in existenceg this, the greatest feat in this line of work since the atom was smashed. The occurrence, however, was a terrihc explosion which threw Italiano and his capable assistant, Mary Hoadley, to the floor amidst a great concussion of noise and air in the build- ing. Latest reports say that they are out of danger. Hollywood . . . When Fannie Brice died last month, the world lost one of its most adept comediansl Fill- ing her shoes rapidly is Althea Reid. Her impersona- tions of Baby Snooks on the Chase and Maxwell Coffee Program is hilarious and brings back memories of when the almost inimitable Fannie was in her stride . . . Manuel Martin and His Melody Strings will be heard on the same coffee program. Phyllis Wheeler, television expert, has invented a coloring material to bring out the true value of tele- vision. She has been working since 1950 on this ex- periment. This morning, NBC paid her thirty-five hundred thousand dollars for patents to the process . . . Harold Sullivan, writer for the London Times, re- ceives The Best Writer of the Year Award at the newspapermen's convention in Paris . . . Genevieve Welsh was awarded a placque for her clever cartoons and comic strips. Mary Swokla will make her American debut on the opera stage in Madame Butterfly, Thursday of next week . . . She is the Austrian singing wizard who was brought to the American public by the theatrical man- ager and stage producer, Theodore joseph . . . Irene Atherton, a small town interior decorator with some novel ideas, will be stage mistress . . . Teddy says that Miss Atherton's sets are worth double the admission ' mv price . . . Warden joseph Kendzia of Sing Sing was honored today by the president for his remarkable psycholog- ical treamtent of his prisoners . . . Today was National Tulip Day and -the editor of the Home and Garden Magazine, Eleanor Hauschild, presided over the Tulip Festival at the Exposition . . . Majorie Lynch, floral genius of Holland's beautiful dis- play, spoke of the flowers in the little country . . . Edward Hazlin, business tycoon of the Hazlin and Pacific Tea Company is planning a new radio show with comedy by Rita Cranshaw and announcing by the little man with the big voice, Bob Birchell . . . Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Barnes will vaca- tion on her estate in upper New York . . . She will have as her guest justice Lyon of the Supreme Court . . . The romance between these two is blossoming beauti- fully . . . We predict a marriage before Congress re- opens . . . james McGuire, Lavender Sox batter, suffered a broken finger today and will be unable to play in the big league game tomorrow-a big disappointment for his many fans . . . Buddy Brophy will 611 in with some brilliant catching . . . Dot Vincent will bring her Ice Follies to New York from Boston after a popular tour of the country . . . She has borrowed Johnny Morey, Olympic figure skating champion, from Paramount . . . The Hudson River Dam, just north of Albany, has been completed and the contractor and personal super- visor, Hazel Milby, dedicated it this morning during a very impressive ceremony. Miss Milby's next job will be on the extension bridge between Raleigh, North Carolina and Bermuda. Walt Reid, another alert architect, finished the larg- est apartment house ever to exist. He will name it the Crushing Arms Apartment. The eighty story affair is also in Bermuda . . . Flash!! Philadelphia . . . William Perry, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, startled and shocked his audience when he broke into an old time song, The Little Red Fox. It may not have pleased his audiences who are used to his serene intermezzi, but it showed them that the maestro can also swing out . . . Aleck Switz, who wrote so many of the Willy Hop- per mysteries, also surprised his fans last week when his Mystery of Medicine was marketed . . . Clarence Davis, Presidentpf Yale University, today accepted editorship of the Time Digest. john Kupidlowski, internationally famous in the scientific world for his study of the waters of Labrador and Greenland, has completed his newest diving bell. Weighing four ton and holding several men, it goes I Twenty-Seven n. Small!

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Mr. Perkins, the New England poet, is circling thc globe for material for his new poem, The Song of the Mary Lee. Mr. Perkins was inspired when he viewed William Victoria's painting of old Stonington fishing smacks which are on display at the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art . . . Also touring the world with their troupe are the Tanajewski girls. These famous puppeteers, who have played before the crowned heads of Europe, will be in their summer theatre in Australia before the spring season closes. - Maurice Orlando, the brilliant young architect who has given us so many fantastic movie sets, has at last seen one of his mad dreams come true. His idea of parking cars on top of skyscrapers and transporting them from street to storage on a huge, circular ramp 'has at last been realized in his new project atop the Italian Building at Radio City . . . Amy Savin, the versatile wit of the night clubs, will be seen on this same station tomorrow night at 8:30. She has just finished her four year contract in the Orchid Room of the Little Old New Yorker Hotel. It is expected that she will go to Hollywood next month to play with the king of the cinema, William Emerson, in the Broadway Melody of 1961. The musicale will be musical because of Elizabeth Mc- Carthy's scintillating tunes. She has written such hits as Shadows on the Snow and The Church on the Hill. Costumes, of course, are by the demon of damasks, Jane Turner . . . are reviving the Mayo Brothers Institute . . . this is a great cause. They are working on a cure for cancer, assisted by Dr. Francis Connors, the famous bacteriolo- gist who discovered the sleeping-sickness germ . . . A bit of irony in the day's news . . . Dr. Albert Bes- sette, who saved Dr. Connors from a brain tumor in a brilliant operation, is rumored to have been a butcher's helper when he was a boy. He has gone a long way 1 . -'U Q- F..l-5,-.... W- -,Kilim -from cutting up pork chops to slicing off brain tumors . . . ' RCA employees recently conducted a nation-wide poll to elect Miss Television of 1960 . . . The winner! Miss Helen Kelliher . . . Miss Kelliher, between tele- vision appearances, conducts an all male orchestra. The New York Times is staging a comeback with a nery little small town reporter as editor-in-chief. Her name is Lillian Edgar. Great things are destined for her. The internationally known sports commentator, Pop Dion, will enlist himself in her services as a sports writer . . . Emily Dennehey, Hollywood tattler, will correspond from the West Coast . . . Miss Smith will gather bits from the ins and outs of Broadway for the sheet, and Anna Shugrue will be the Art Editor . . . It looks like a ripsnorter . . . Here's hoping that The Times gets back into the lead again. The Waldorf-Astoria has a new chef . . . Michael Mazzerella . . . His professional name: Mikail . . . His splendid supervision of the dining salon makes the Astoria the best eaterie in town . . . Flash! Charles Hoelck, famous stratosphere aviator, was injured slightly as his plane crashed into a wheatfield near Podunk, Minnesota. He will, however, be able to enter into the Circum World Races in August . . . which he may win . . . George Hallett, the Navy representative to the race, will give him his only stiff competition . . . Your reporter guarantees a photo-finish. Flash! . . . Washington . . . The returns from New York have swayed the presidential election . . . Freder- ick Hermes, Postmaster-General, is now leading with Senator Farnell close behind . . . Dr. Elizabeth Hermes, doctor of psychology, has moved her mind clinic, The Green Light, to Philadelphia. Her dpsychopathic re- search makes her capable to handle e most difhcult of mental cases. She will retain her New York branch of The Green Light. james Donahue, president of john Hopkins Uni- versity and Grace Martell, Ambassador to Germany, are flying tonight on the Atlantic Clipper to London New York's Mayor Limanni today welcomed to the city the most famous woman driver in the world. Yes, Anna Sylvia has again smashed her own record in a race on the Utah salt flats. Andy Piver and his young wife, Anna Marie, last week were presented a special Academy Award for their brilliant work in the latest technicolor, full-length cartoon, Alice in Wonder- land. They and their company of workers will start a series of Six Little Sows shorts . . . Italy . . . Daniel Souza, recently of the United States, was made a Count by Balbo, president of Italy. Souza is the military genius who helped Balbo realize his Twenty-Six

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Art Davison is staging a Ringling renaissance. Art, a small circus producer, is presenting the greatest show on earth, af- ter it has slept for more than ten years. One of his performers will be the famous explorer and African hunter, Robert Collins, who will manage the ani- mals . . . The girl on the latest Flick Magazine cover is Rose Lastella, the Cinderella girl who will go to Holly- wood to playmhe Life of Sylvia Sidney. Miss Las- tella was working in stock and was rescued by George Barden from eternal obscurity . . . john 'Wood, newsreel cameraman, nearly broke his neck when he was at Dewey Field filming the docking of the Dirigible Von Rosenbloom. Directly under- neath the giant cigar when it exploded, he was almost struck. Fox Movietone would have to look hard to find another newsreeler as capable as Wood. Head of the G-men, Richie Vargas, will retire into the quiet life of the governor of Kentucky this fall when his term is complete. Strange as it seems, Richie got his start in sleuthing by reading mystery stories in English class while in high school. Margaret Sammataro, who won the Pulitzer prize for her tragedy, Silver Girl, will probably come very close to winning it again this year for her comedy, Life With Mother . . . ' The dry witticisms of Jerry Watts can be heard during his afternoon television show, Club Matinee, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays . . . Al Palmer, soldier of fortune making his twenty- third million in the market, has enlisted in the Mongol- ian army to help Chinauwin back her lost territories. Speaking of militarisms, Col. Richard Williams, head commander of West Point, will fly to Antarctic America to begin spring training of our soldiers in the frozen wastes . . . Dorothy Riley, English hair stylist, arrived on the Queen Victoria which docked today . . . She will open M- JIIJORM a coiffure salon in Manhattan . . . Also on the Queen Victoria was the only woman movie director in exist- ence, Marguerite Spellman, who will go to Hollywood for some new ideas to put into her next film. Lucille Norman, the artist who paints those beauti- ful girls for Old Gold was assigned today by Anna Roever, head of the World's Golden Century of Pro- gress Exposition, to decorate the walls of the Fashion Foyer. Miss Norman has just finished her book on the history of fashion. Poland . . . Eddie Fidrych, dare-devil, ski-jumper and bobsled driver today won the ski championship and sledding championship in the name of the good old U. S. A .... i At the Author's Banquet last evening the true ident- ity of Eliot George, the writer of those famous blood curdling yarns about pirates, tortures, gruesome battles and romance, was disclosed. She is a petite New England lady with the sweetest, kindest eyes ever seen. Yes, it was difficult to believe that little Alta Gilbert could write such stories . . . Theresa Roy, who inherited the Statler Hotel in Boston two years ago, has brought back from Europe some delectable Swedish recipes. New Yorkers are traveling to Boston to try them. Elwood Bailey and Gus Brucker, two of the coun- try's leading lawyers, today came to a parting of ways. Too, too, bad . . . Rowena Panciers, of Escort Service fame, today started another section in her thriving business, The world will be glad to hear that she is inaugurating a Female Escort Service . . . Three cheersl!!! Madeline Richards, the noted plane designer, was decorated by Queen Margaret Rose for her London Clipper. She will fly back to America in the Clipper very soon and will show Mary Shortman, the racing aviatrix, the mechanical operation of the plane. New York City . . . District-Attorney john Lom- bardo issued the statement today that the New York City Government will wipe out every gunman within the city limits inside of two weeks. Lombardo is the gentleman who can do it. You will remember his capturing of Adult Face Nelson last year . . . Gang- sters beware ! ! ! ! ! ! That winds up the day's news. So until next week, I take my leave. You have been listening to Ronald Bishop, your televised news reporter. Keep tuned to this same sta- tion for Mary Doney's Dramatic Sketches at 10:30. This is Clarence Bagshaw speaking to you for the makers of Streamlined Face Cream. WJZ, New York. Bong! Bong! Bong! REBishop Twenty-Eight