Upstart Travel Guide Makes Hit in Europe
Paris reports Kleber-Colombes Guide rivals Michelin with novel symbols and reader input. Jean Didier leads a 5000-list hotel restaurant directory using associate testers rather than inspectors. Maps cover all 20 French departments and a Paris-focused brochure lists 500 venues. The guide, sold 100000 copies in 1968, appeals to gastronauts and Parisians alike.
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Michelin
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Kleber-Colombes
Allan Sherman Finishing Broadway Show At Last
New York AP report on Allan Sherman finishing his first Broadway show The Fig Leaves Are Falling with Albert Hague and Dorothy Loudon in the cast George Abbott directing at the Broadhurst premiering December 27 Sherman discusses career detours marriage and his writing process noting every song has an understudy and a half hundred songs were written to select about 18 for the production.
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Chicago
Albert Hague
Hague
Fancy
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Barry Melson
Dorothy Loudon
Jules Munshin
All Broadway
George Abbott
Mame
Abbott
Dolores
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital Service Corps aids patients
The SJ Hospital Service Corps is an all volunteer group at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Members deliver coffee books and notes, log hours, and staff shifts to improve patient comfort. The corps, first organized in 1963, emphasizes humane service and a Christian atmosphere.
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North Prucit
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
SJ Hospital Service Corps
Ron Lennard
Dan Brown
Hospital
Trator
Voluntary Hospital Service Unit
Rex Curtin
Joan Blumberg
Edna Gray
Max House
Mrs Grundy remains symbol of conformity in drama
British playwright Thomas Morton is largely forgotten except for Mrs Grundy who embodies social conformity. The World Almanac notes her omnipresence in Speed the Plough and how she appears in daily life as a restraining symbol. A hospital volunteer service corps is described with officers and duties at a main entrance information desk.
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Mrs. Grundy
Dame Ashfield
World Almanac Notes
Clifton Adams
George Bland
E. H. Lovering
Clyde Martin
Elmer Gray
Hobart Enoch
Service Corps
Robert O. Whitson
Walter Rundell
W. W. Bland, Jr
Hospital
Miss Teen-age New York City crowned from Staten Island
Karen Marie Bruun a 116 pound Staten Island teen was chosen Miss Teen-age New York City and will represent New York at the national Miss Teen-age America Pageant in Fort Worth Texas on CBS TV November 30. A $10000 scholarship and prizes await if she wins. Bruun aims to major in biology and teach after college.
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Did You Know About Mrs Surratt and Lincoln’s Assassin?
Mrs Mary Surratt, landlady to John Wilkes Booth, faced execution by hanging for conspiracy connected to the Lincoln assassination. The event framed a high profile legal case in American history.
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John Wilkes Booth
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