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Women in the news. Vol. 1, no. 42?

Women in the news. Vol. 1, no. 42?

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Weekly television newsreel featuring women. Depicts the activities of businesswomen, housewives, factory workers, artists, philanthropists, athletes, celebrities and ordinary women demonstrating their interests and accomplishments in all walks of life. Highlights of this issue include segments about: Anna Naegel and other passengers arriving about the Queen Mary (Personalities in the news); table tennis champion, Sally Green; national amateur swimming champs, Jackie LaVine and Maureen O'Brien, a meeting of the Women's Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in New York; WAC-WAFF Group Enlistment Week in New York.
Possible volume and issue number from numbers on continuity sheets of earlier issues in the Adelaide Fish Hawley Cumming Papers in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Possible date of release is based on the date of the arrival of the passenger ship, the Queen Elizabeth in New York on December 6, 1950, and the dates of WAC-WAFF Group Enlistment Week in New York, December 4-10, 1950.
Host/narrator: Betty Gray.
Appearing: Anna Neagel, Herbert Wilcox, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marjorie Farnsworth, Sally Green, Maureen O'Brien, Jackie LaVine, Mrs. Perlman, Mrs. Markson?, Stella Adler, Mrs. Jesse Asinof, Minnie May Johnson, Mayor Impellitteri.
[Editor, Adelaide Hawley?].
Original running time: 15 minutes, including commercials.
Originally aired with commercials. Breaks for commercials are introduced by host as though they are additional news segments, e.g., "Here's another bit of up-to-date news to remember".
Cannot confirm that newsreel stories are in the same order, or on the same reel as when originally released.
Sources used: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University: Adelaide Fish Hawley Cumming Papers, 1922-1967; Radio and television scripts and program information. "Women in the News", "continuity sheets", 1950. MC 237, folders 28 and 29, October 14, 2018; Daily News (New York), November 29, 1950, p. 30, viewed October 25, 2018 via Newspapers.com; New York times, November 30, 1950, p. 35, viewed October 25, 2018 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers; Team USA, Table tennis WWW site, Sally Green Prouty, viewed October 25, 2018; Stephens College, Stephensophia, 1940, p. 32, U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990, viewed October 25, 2018 via Ancestry.com.

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01/01/1950
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united states
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