City hosts first Children's International Summer Village
Cincinnati citizens funded a four week intercultural experiment hosting 54 children ages 10 to 12 from Vienna Oslo Stockholm Newcastle Mexico City Paris Copenhagen and Cincinnati. Leaders include Henry Roskan and Dr. Doris Twitchell Allen. The village used letters as a language bridge and featured TV from Crosley Avco.
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Vienna
Oslo
Stockholm
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Exico City
Paris
Copenhagen
Henry Roskan
University of Cincinnati
Germany
Sweden
England
Doris Twitchell Allen
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues Mixed
A compact list of crossword hints across many numbers and down entries including clues for animals tools foods gods cities and verbs with variants and abbreviations. The puzzle features clues such as a brown phalanger a tusk a leather flask for oil and a Malayan term with several entries awaiting cross fill.
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Choice Group
Doctor Willis Moves To Linn Dale After Rival Boggs
In Linn Dale two physicians contrast sharply. The elder Doc Boggs resents the newcomer Doctor Willis who wins public favor with his care and compassion. Willis later marries Jean from Ohio and reveals a sensitive side, including shedding tears at Boggs’s funeral.
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Elm Street
Johnny Olsen hosts lunch show and radio pioneer marked
Johnny Olsen recalls starting at 14 on a Windom transmitter and becoming a ribbon of radio and TV history. He hosted Lunch eon Club on ABC noon and set a record with over 2000 county fair appearances while interviewing three presidents Coolidge Hoover and Roosevelt. Dan Seymour named one of seven favorite American fathers by Boys Clubs of America. Margaret OBrien withdraws from Junior Miss after attorney cites minor status. Josh Shelley joins Holiday Hotel cast prompting Don Ameche jokes.
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Josh Shelley
ABC TV
Don Ameche
Josh
Grassroots Dollar Less Elastic Yet Farmer's Fare Improved
The column using Home Economics Bureau data argues that while cash incomes for farmers and workers rose far since 1900, living standards have not dramatically diverged. It cites farm cash income tripling since 1900, higher wages, more autos, appliances, vacations, pensions, and electricity, yet notes fixed incomes suffer as costs rise. It also highlights inflation and tax effects, urging that overall living standards improved despite higher prices.
Gallery concessionaire eyes sharp business at fair
In Camden New Jersey a gallery concessionaire at the south Jersey fair draws crowds by posting a large map of North Korea marked with a bull’s eye around the 38th parallel. Shooters line up five deep to try for the mythical boundary bull’s eye, highlighting his knack for attracting customers.
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Camden
N.J
South Jersey
North Korea
Iron Curtain Cuts Fur Trade Across Diomedes
The National Geographic Society reports a fur curtain now divides Big and Little Diomede in the Bering Strait cutting off cigarette tea flour sugar trade and social calls between Eskimo families on opposite sides. Russian soldiers monitor Big Diomede as Little Diomede hosts U.S. relatives separated by the date line. The islands, once trading hubs since the glacial age, remain inhabited by Eskimo communities dependent on hunting and sea resources.
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National Geographic Society
Big Diomede Island
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America
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Alaska
United States
Fragrance Firm Makes Car Smell Like New
An aroma company accepted a quirky request to give an old car the scent of a fresh factory roll. The project produced a convincing new car smell for the vintage jalopy.
Waist measurements shift over decades in corset fashion
In Elizabethan times ladies wore corsets that produced an 18 inch waist. Fifty years ago waist lines relaxed to 18 to 20 inches for comfort and health. Today girdle makers generally set 24 inches as the minimum for foundation garments.
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