Social Calendar Highlights Tonight and Friday Events
Tonight events include Jolly Young Girls supper and skating at YWCA at 6 30, Amarillo Country Club Dutch Dinner Team Match at 8, Poplar Grove 171 Woodmen Circle WOW Hall 8, and Delia Crittenden Bible Class at 618 Pierce 7 30. Friday lists include MOL Class luncheon at First Baptist 12 15, Sew-N-Sew Club 2, San Jacinto Good Neighbor Club 2, Delia Crittenden Bible Class 2, Home Arts Club 2 30, Pecos Valley Queens Lodge 684 JOOP Hall 2, Calling All Girls at YWCA 4, Jam Jar ice cream social 7, and church auxiliary events through the evening.
Tutor to the Lords Retires in Gloucestershire Cottage
In Fairford England Rev Hubert Bancroft Allen 90 known as Tutor to the House of Lords lives alone with his collie in a Cotswold Gloucestershire cottage surrounded by Greek and Latin books. He has taught aristocrats for 70 years but blindness now forces him to say the aristocracy he loves are decent while he finds the working class snobbish.
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Fairford
England
Hubert Bancroft Allen
House of Lords
Cotswold
Gloucestershire
New Hotel Replaces Landmark CALCUTTA Grand Hotel Plans
Plans are drawn for a $9,000,000 hotel to replace the famous Grand Hotel in Calcutta, signaling major redevelopment. The project aims to replace the landmark with a modern facility, reflecting urban growth and economic development.
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Calcutta
Tepsic Speed Compared to National League Stars
Pat Joe Bedenk, former Penn State coach, cites Brooklyn recruit outfielder Joe Tepsic as one of the fastest players in the league.
Opulence Keynotes Fall Furs Show 1947 Styles
New York fur fashions for 1947 feature oversized sleeves such as Elizabethan, troubadour, Cardinal, and parachute styles. Designers Esther Dorothy Maximilian highlight cravats, baroque silhouettes, and bright wool linings. Nutria coats pair fullness with sleek cutaway lines, while furs like black broadtail and ranch mink create flowing capes and stoles.
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New York
NEA
Esther Dorothy
Maximilian
Winston Churchill
Holland's Cheese Makers Back in Civilian Clothes
New York reports the Alkmaar cheese carriers have resumed their guild dress of white clothes and big straw hats after 1940. The Netherlands Information Bureau notes the tradition includes free beer for carriers, with Alkmaar’s cheese weighing house once a chapel, and the town featuring a bell tower with a mechanical trumpeter and mounted knights at the half hour.
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New York
Alkmaar
North Holland
Netherlands Information Bureau
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YWCA
Amarillo Country Club
Poplar Grove
Woodmen Circle
Wow Hall
Delia Crittenden
Pierce
First Baptist Church
Bob Maxwell
Roberts
San Jacinto
Good Neighbor Club
J. C. Williams
Florida
Home Arts Club
JR. Rushmer
Tyler
Pecos Valley
Queens Lodge
Joop Hall
Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church
Fincher Chapel
John B. Golding
VFW Hall
Ralph
Competent Help
Standard Building and Home Service CO
Sweetbriar Shop
Polk
D’artagnan
Holland's Cheese Makers
Lewis Caddell
N. van Buren
Kashmir
Borba
the Life Insurance Co. of
Virginia
A. L. Biggs
Fisk
Magen
Amaulle, Teas
Marizon’s
Sable
Squirrel Locke
Naige
Amaulle
Texas
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