The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1947, Page 7

SATURDAY, pe) CEMBER 27, 1947 MO MOST FOREGONE CONCLUSION BEST FREE SHOW AP Newsteatures E are nominations for superlatives of 1947 by AP Newsfeatures specialists: BIGGEST FOREGONE CONCLUSION: Thé New Look: MOST ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Flying Saucers. BEST FREE SHOW: The marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Louis Mountbatten. MOST PUBLICIZED EXPENSE ACCOUNT: Jonny Meyer’s. , STAR WITNESS: Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers. Fy MOST NO-ING MAN: Russia’s Molo- tov. BIGGEST POLITICAL QUESTION MARK: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Presidency. MOST FRUSTRATED DREAM: Living quar- te tS within the budget. * MOST OVERWORKED PHRASE: “Open the door, Richard:” ram his Was 1947, For Better and-Worse BIGGEST BUBBLE BIGGEST SPORTS SURPRISE: * Joe Louis being floored by Joe Walcott. WORST SPORTS PROPHECY: By Frank Leahy, coach of the undefeated Notre Dame foot- ball team: “We will lose three games this year.” TOP SPORTS THRILL: Lavagetto's two-base hit in the ninth inning which broke { up a no-hitter and won a game for the Dodgers aaginst the Yankees in the World Series. i BEST PLAY ON BROADWAY: Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”. WORST PLAY: “Heads or Tails”, by H. J. Lengsfelder and Ervin Drake. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Failure of the American Repertory Theater to make money, * despite several artistic successes. H BEST NEW ACTRESS: June Lockhart in “For Love or Money.” } BEST NEW ACTOR: James Whitmore BIGGEST COMEBACK: Gen.‘Charles de | of “Command ; Decision.” Gaunt, who re-emerged into a position of polit- ied daminance in France. PRIOR ites satires | det ODDEST MIXUP: The situation | which ‘ eave’ “two"*GOVertiors™ to Géorgia, BIGGEST. BUBBLE: In front of Jun- ior’s mouth. { WEIRDEST TALE: Deaths of the Collyer } Brothers in their rubbish-stuffed, vermin-ridden home in New York, MOST DISCUSSED SUBJECT: The cost of living. ANIMAL OF THE YEAR: The alley cat that Strolled into a hotel in St. Louis to keep out of the rain and walked off with two prizes in a cat show. MOST UNUSUAL ROMANCE: Jim Schuf- | fert, 20, of New Kensington, Pa., was hired as a baby-sitter, fell in love with a 13-year-old “baby” and so they were married. HIGH BIRTH: Aaxico Vega, born 7,500 feet in, the air in a plane en route from New York ‘ to Puerto Rico. QUTSTANDING ATHLETE: Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias. OUTSTANDING NEW SPORTS STAR: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers. BIGGEST SPORTS DISAPPOINTMENT: | Boston Red ,Sox, who bowed to the underdog | Yankees: ih the American League pennant race. BEST’; MALE MOVIE PERFORMANCE: vVGvegorx Raskin “Gentlemen’s Agreement.” BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE: Rosalind Russell in “Mourning Becomes Electra.” { BEST’ IMPORTED FILM: “Great Ex- pectations.” MOST PROMISING FILM NEWCOM- ERS: Barbara Belle Geddes, Weldell Corey. BIGGEST MOVIE NEWS: Britain's 75 percent tax on U.S. films. is the Year,” by Feike Feikema. BEST NON-FICTION: “Man Against Myths,” by Barrows Dunham. | MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY EVENT: Award of the Nobel Prize to | Andre Gide. | BIGGEST LITERARY SURPRISE: The success of the first $5 novel, “House Divid- ! ed.” by Ben Ames Williams. BEST NEW WRITER: Calder Willingham, au- | thor of “End as a Man.” | OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PERSONALITY: | who is 80. MOST PUBLICIZED NEW SINGER: t Margaret Truman. Po 618 William werd yesterday Key West In been promoted chief machinest Days Gone By sis." AS TAKEN FROM FILES = { witiiam Arnold, OF THE CITIZEN OF DEC. 27, 1937 CTT TCI CULL CC COO LLL LL LLL on Gh A~ special dispatch in The} the G Cite’ today says that 43 per-|ran it f in-law, Matthew G .Holland, has the Florida Motor Lines in Key | West, said today that prankste! sj 5 stmas Eve stole a bus at y Key Ferry slip and|ist,born in Pittsburgh, 41 years e miles down the road j ago. BIRTHDAYS (Know America) to the rank of Mary Woods, president of Am- in the United/erian Broadcasting born in Louisville, Ky., 46 years ago. Ewan Clague, Department of ner of labor , born at Prescott, Wash. ago. Levant, composer-pian. street, received! TODAY’S that their .son- manager of}! sons, each more than 100 years} and left it on an embankment. Marlene __ Dietrich, _ actress, old, are receoiving pensions in Florida. + ! Constable Cleveland Johnson} Jamse C. Dunn, Ambassador ea ‘of the third district, with head-|to Italy, born in Newark, N. J. . uarters in Tavernier, and Mrs.|57 years ago. Belated sponge _ boats unable Santos: arrived yesterday to] Louis Seomtien| novelist, to arrive for the Christi sales, visit relatives in Key West. ‘born at Mansfield, Ohio, 51 { came to port early erday, | years ago. and their catches sold for $1,200. Ca Rot ae : | Flagler avenue, — born in Berlin, 43 years ago. Mrs. Francisco Fleitas, of} Rev. Edwin T. Dahlberg, born' left this morning | at Fergus Falls, Minn., 55 years Miss Mary Beth O’Steen, of| fo, Fort Lauderdale to visit her | ago. Jacksonville, is visiting Miss | son-in-law and Carmen McBeth, and intends tO] 24q Mrs. A. G. remain here until after New Year's. | Today The Citizen says in an | editorial paragraph: Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sands, 615} As! the engagement of their daugh- {| The only pla street, today announced { justified is in the dictionary.” daughter, Mr. { Lund. A tendency to develop arthri- tis may run in families. 1B Beseanuaeaea ce where ‘war’ is} STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | TRIUMPH COFFEE Artur Toscanini, NBC Symphony Conductor, | ter, Miss Lillian. Sands, to Fill-; The average daily consump- more Sawyer, formerly of Key West, now of Miami. Mr. a os tion of milk by each Canadian rose to about 1.01 points in 1946 compared with 0.74 pints 26 years Alfred Acherson, | ago. MILL All Grocers BEST FICTION WORK PUBLISHED: “This} | TIS FEV. WEST CITIZEN RR Meet A Boy ou Will Be Glad To Know He’s just a lad with,a bag of newspapers slung over his shoulder, or a fiaelict full attached to his bike---but he’s a success story in the making, Because he’s learning about people, about fi- nance and how to conduct a business, through his newspaper route. Bright, alert, he will also become self sufficient and well poised, so have a friendly word for him every day. 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