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Veterans of the Des Moines Register, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and the Gallup Poll will be on hand to demonstrate to all prospective editors the joys of newspaper life. The competition gets under way at 7:30 o'clock at 14 Plympton Street.
Iowa Farmer Frake (Charles Winninger), his wife (Fay Bainter), their son Wayne (Dick Haymes) and their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside...
Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason...
Cash & Carry. In Des Moines, a war bride, fresh from New Zealand, labored under a pocketbook heavy with coins, and the notion that she had to change a bill every time she bought something.
By noon on Monday almost every man, woman and child in the U.S. was sure the war in Europe was over. But most felt that they had already lived through a sort of V-E week, and across the great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering...