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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
18
The Beta Delta Gamma fraternity hosts the annual all school dance in the College Gym tomorrow night from 9 to 12. Admission is five cents for stag or couples. All Amarillo College and Amarillo High School students invited. outsiders may attend with a student. Music by the Collegians.
A letter from a night worker asks how to sleep later. Tips include using a black cloth or sock over the eyes, taking daytime naps, and establishing regular sleep habits. Albert Kleitman from the University of Chicago and Harvard philosopher George Palmer are cited. occasional sleep loss is not dangerous, though worry can affect health.
A reader quiz on manners asks who should carry parcels when couples shop, how to phrase criticism to clerks, and whether small items should be sent. It also probes expectations of postwar service and handling a failing guaranteed article with two solution options.
Puzzle list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues including military terms and common words with abbreviations and prefixes. Clues reference U. S. Army commanders, European theater, and general vocabulary ranging from anatomy to geography.
Henry Mclemore recalls a rambunctious New York column on bow ties with mock patriotism and satire. The piece mocks bow tie culture, cites Frank Crowninshield, and ends with a jab at B C ancestry and rigidity in fashion fixation.
Private Roy Ray Floyd describes Moffett Oklahoma a small city of about 550 near the Arkansas River. He praises its scenic location strong farming soil cotton and corn crops a weekly stock market and Monday Wednesday sales. He notes Fort Smith proximity Amarillo warmth from locals and friendly soldiers stationed there.
United Press report says Hitler ordered his army to advance claiming 2.4 million Russians captured or killed, 17 500 tanks destroyed, 21 600 guns and 14 200 planes. He asserts German occupied area now twice 1933 Germany with 5 percent casualt ies of the war. Dietrich says 60 Russian divisions trapped near Vyazma and Rzvancke.
A column of home recipes and local society bits details Mrs. S H Madden’s spoon cornbread method and notes on residents recent injuries travels and births. The page lists visitors, movements, and new residents around Amarillo with a mix of lifestyle anecdotes and hospital notes.
A World War II era note highlights salvaged rubber as crucial, citing 125 old tires for a Flying Fortress, a bicycle tire and tube for six radio sets, and showing rubber consumption by vehicles like a light tank, gun carriage, and battleship with specific pounds.
Dorothy Thompson argues Stalin’s statement serves as a near ultimatum urging the Anglo American powers to fight now. She notes rifts between political and military leaders in Britain, the United States, and Germany, and contrasts Russian steadfastness with Allied hesitation.
Dorothy Van Doren's Dacey Hamilton from Harper carries a calm, steady pace about a widow with four children who starts life anew at 30. Cyril Harris's One Braver Thing chronicles the loyalist Binneys after the American Revolution, a survival tale. Dorothy Parker's stories appear in a Modern Library collection featuring Big Blonde and Here We Are.
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