Televised Coronation Debate Grips England in 1953
England faces a public clash over televising Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2. Proponents argue global viewing would mark history while critics warn of distraction and loss of solemnity. estimates suggest up to 22 million Britons may own or soon acquire TV sets for the event.
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Belgrave Square
Great Britain
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Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
George VI
Amusing Memories Nourish Our Silver Years
Today’s talk reflects on storing memories and art as spiritual nourishment beyond money. The speaker cites a king’s line about dining through fate and argues that cherished books and small works provide comfort, beauty, and contentment in aging, blunting regrets.
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No clear news item available. the text is a quotation about happiness and memories by George Matthew Adams, lacking any reportable event, person, or place.
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Wrestlers Aid Blind With Dogs Through Fund Drive
The National Wrestling Alliance pledges 25 percent of after tax receipts from each promoter show to Leader Dogs for the Blind in Rochester Michigan. Tulsa promoter Leroy McGuirk helped launch the drive joined by Sam Muchnick of St Louis who notes about 500 benefit shows fund the effort annually. Programs require about 1250 dollars to train a guide dog with roughly 400 dogs trained yearly. McGuirk, once a junior heavyweight champ in Oklahoma and A M, is now blind and uses a guide dog.
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Tulsa
Okla
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Afghan royal dies in Bombay en route to U S
His Royal Highness Sardar Ahmad Shah Khan father in law to the Afghan king, aged 63, died in Bombay while traveling to the United States for hospital treatment for high blood pressure.
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Afghanistan
Sardar Ahmad Shah Khan
United States
Community News From St Ansgar Iowa and Surroundings
Local residents share visits and travels with relatives from Waterloo Rock Falls Mason City and Austin. A church circle officers conference and baptisms are noted plus several family gatherings and weddings with attendees from St Ansgar Osage Austin Nashua and Marion.
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Fred Allen
Henry Payne
Waterloo
Mothers Club
Spring Valley School
John Bell
Clarence Jensen
Donald Fredericks
Susan Kay
Rock Falls
Thomas Lenz
Minnie
Elsie Ostenson
T. A. Thompson
Fairmont
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Rochester
Tappi
Manly
Clear Lake
Britt
Hampton
St. Ansgar
Rebecca
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Wayne Ruechel
Albin Perau
James Larson
June Tesch
Kathryn Groth
Luther College
Richard Hyland
Debra
Hayfield
Minn
Louis Eoster
Henry Crooks
Ramona Agnes
Mary Beyer
Arthur Rachut
Grant Berg
Raymond
Roger Berg
Waverly
Keith Loveay
Beth Chapin
Palmer Olson
Josephine Wirth
Anton Groth
Clifford Warrington
C. G. Goplerud
Hanlon
Jens Peterson
Mildred
Towell
Nora Springs
Iph Duncomb
Mr. Towell
Mrs. Duncomb
Duncomb
Minnie Dill
Marion
Ind
Ernest Hansen
Hansen
Escondido
Calif
Alfred Hansen
Martin Madsen
Orval Kulsrud
Austin
Gilman Rust
Earl Thompson
Nashua
Kay
Arles Lincke
Gene Counsell
Merrill Gaarder
Henry Gaarder
Vallejo Bullis
Lester Hansen
LeRoy
Allan Rust
Cpl
Burl Payne
Fort Leonard Wood
G. R. Donovan
D. Ann
la Port City
C. M
Merle Hobbs
Charles City
Lee Hobbs
W. F. Belling
Emma Belling
Methodist Church
Harold Young
Kathryn Loretta
Rollin Oswald
Sandra
Bennie Cleveland
Fresno
Warren Bender
Laura Cleveland
Amanda Kirchgatter
Russell Edgar
Mamie Gutman
August Ruechel
San Antonio
Texas
Jack Tucker
Japan
Maj
Tucker
C. Edward Miller Sr
Edward
California
San Bernadino
Mesa
Edward Jr
Postal Service
R. P. Spencer
St. Paul
William Porten
Chicago
New York
Robert O'Meara
T. A. Groth
Angel of Neatness and Disorder in One Man's Life
HAL BOYLE reflects on the lifelong tussle between the angel of neatness and the devil of disorder. He cites collectors like the Collyer brothers and jokes about keeping mementos, building a future attic and trunks labeled for magazines, shoes, letters, and misc items, to relive memories in old age. He contrasts his wife Frances’s view of insecurity in clinging to things.
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Hal Boyle
New York
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Frances
Dartmouth Teacher Is Falcon Trainer
Boston report profiles Bill Mattox a Dartmouth College teaching fellow in geography who trains falcons on campus. He has cared for five birds with patience to let them hunt solo. After the last bird trained disappeared, Blondi e was given by a fellow falconer to aid his work.
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Dartmouth College
Bill Mattox
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Dartmouth
Blondie
Williamsburgh as Capital of Historic Province
Williamsburgh Virginia served as the capital of a once extensive province whose reach covered areas now in Virginia West Virginia Kentucky Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and parts of Pennsylvania.
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Williamsburgh
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Hawaiian Islands Now Lead Pineapple Production
The Bahia ma Islands were once the principal center of pineapple culture, but current data indicate the Hawaiian Islands have become the leading producer with the most significant output.
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Bahama Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Life expectancy odds for spouses at equal ages
A couple at the same age faces a 3 in 5 chance that the wife will outlive her husband. The statement reflects survival probabilities in joint life expectancy scenarios.
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