Conscripts Wife Martha Faces Long Separation
Martha Marshall learns her husband Bill has been drafted as the nation girds for defense. She moves from ordinary life to duty as they part at the station, vowing to endure a year apart while Paul Elliott helps care for their home and their dog Butch.
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Martha
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Butch
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Goodby
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Missus
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Domestic Dinner Sparks Tension After War Absence
Martha battles memories of Bill as Paul and Suzanne join her for a staged domestic scene. The trio dines, talks, and watches a movie, while Martha confronts the ache of her husband's absence at a reception station. The scene ends with Martha unsettled and the story continuing.
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Add
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Bill
Ideas for a city bus depot and local improvements
A collection of reader submissions urging a downtown bus depot with benches for riders, plus calls to clean up vacant lots and add a city kindergarten linked to Amarillo public schools.
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Seventh Avenue
Polk Street
J. B. Fletcher
Bryan Street
Buchanan
Amarillo
C. F. Smith
Parker Street
The Kaw by Floyd Streeter Book Review
John Selby reviews Floyd Benjamin Streeter’s The Kaw from Farrar and Rinehart. The Kansas history surveys three eras settlement border warfare and cattle rails followed by farming and reform movements, with vivid scenes of Dodge City Abilene Newton and Ellsworth.
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Farrar & Rinehart
Mr. Streeter
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Missouri
Kansas City
Junction City
Smoky Hill
Streeter
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Newton
Abilene
Ellsworth
Crackers Foreign Rivers Matchup Quiz
A list pairs ten famous rivers with their likely destinations. Match Jordan Ganges Don Rhine Marne Nile Amazon Danube Euphrates to Atlantic Ocean Adriatic Sea Dead Sea North Sea Mediterranean Bay of Bengal Sea of Azov Black Sea Persian Gulf and Seine. notes quote from Sam Janes on government.
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Ganges
Don
Rhine
Marne
Nile
Amazon
Danube
Euphrates
Atlantic Ocean
Adriatic Sea
Dead Sea
North Sea
Mediterranean
Bay of Bengal
Sea of Azov
Black Sea
Persian Gulf
Seine River
Harvard President Conant as a resolute anti Nazi scholar
The article profiles James Bryant Conant, Harvard president, detailing his decisive stand against Nazism, wartime diplomacy with Britain, and his drive to study the cultural and moral underpinnings of Western civilization. It highlights his early public rebukes of Nazi influence and his belief in active US involvement to defeat Hitler.
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America
Russia
Germany
United States
Orley L Miller
Madison
James Bryant Conant
Harvard
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Dr. Conant
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England
Roosevelt
Ernst
Putty”) Hanfstaengl
Herr Hitler
Conant
Dorchester
Bruning
Salvemini
Sorokin
Safari at 2 A. M at the Sportsmen's Show
In The Talk of the Town piece, visitors explore the Sportsmen's Show after hours. They encounter sleeping animals in the Maine exhibit as a beaver team works, and awake reptiles in the Reptiles of the World display. The tour includes the golden banana boa and horned owls described as morose and savage.
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Mr. King
Dave Irwin
Grand Central Palace
State of Maine
Shape of Things to Come From The New Republic Preview
Reader's Digest condensed Brice Bliven on future everyday life with scratchproof plastics and radiant heat. Autos with dense plastic bodies resist ax blows. Lucite pipes sunlight into homes. new synthetics include mothproof rugs and fireproof fabrics. Homes, cities, and transport become safer and more comfortable as science advances.
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Brice Bliven
GET MARRIED! Campaign for career women to wed
Cosmopolitan advice urges single women in their late twenties and thirties to marry. It promotes decisive action, urges avoiding married men, glamour, and shallow dating, and counsels choosing a respectable partner even if not a dream prince.
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America
Joe Ordinary
Joe
Cafe Society
Harry
Obedience and Gratitude Across Biblical Sayings
A collection of quotations citing Leviticus commandments on observing statutes and judgments, a line from Leviticus about giving thanks, and a quote from Samuel Johnson praising gratitude to God.
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God
Samuel Johnson
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