Dear Abby Advice From a San Francisco Reader
Dear Abby counsels clear communication about plans with visiting guests. In a separate note, she criticizes a dinner where the National Anthem is played for elderly attendees, suggests alternative songs, and answers about repurposing postage stamps from old cards, clarifying regulations.
Coal House Serves as Chamber HQ in Middlesboro
A house built of 40 tons of coal stands as the headquarters of the Middlesboro Chamber of Commerce in eastern Kentucky, illustrating local resourcefulness and a unique landmark for the city.
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Soviet Secret Police Focuses Resources On Spies
The 50th anniversary of the KGB marks a shift toward espionage abroad and counterintelligence at home. MOOP expands security duties, while border troops remain under KGB, as Pravda notes the force adapts with the party’s development.
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Robin the Christmas Card Robin A Legend in Yuletide Decor
A Hallmark card highlights the robin as part of the Bethlehem nativity scene. The legend says a robin perched above the manger watched the Magi present gifts to the Christ Child and later signaled the flame of the stable.
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Pelsnickle the Coal Giver in Christmas Lore
In Greenwich Connecticut the Pryor International Doll Library houses over 8000 dolls including Pelsnickle a Santa like figure who punishes naughty children with coal and switches. Curator Mrs June Anderson Douglass explains Pelsnickle’s German origin and fur coat linked to pelz meaning fur. The custom persists in some Pennsylvania Dutch homes.
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Holland
Germany
New Book of Knowledge
Dolby Engagement Announces May 11 Wedding
Miss Hannah Esther Dolby plans a May 11 wedding to Paul M. Whittaker of Riverside R I. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence T Dolby of Saco she attended Thorn ton Academy and Katherine Gibbs School and works in Boston. Her fiancé a URI and Northeastern Graduate holds a position with Lybrand Ross Montgomery.
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Paul M., Whittaker
L. Raymond Whittaker
Riverside
R. L
Lawrence T. Dolby
Harrison Ave
Saco
Dolby
Thornton Academy
Northeastern Graduate School of Professional Accounting
Lybrand
Ross Brothers
Montgomery
Aunastasoff
Married Alive musical fades after troubled Broadway preview
The pre-Broadway production of Married Alive at the Shubert Theater opens with Vincent Price as a painter who assumes his servant's identity, amid misdirection, fraud and romance. Critics describe the show as dreary and a big-scale disaster, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by E Y Harburg. The piece runs four weeks.
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Associated Press
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Patricia Rutledge
Westminster Abbey
Jule Styne
E. Y. Harburg
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Lee Theodore
Samuel Hirsch
The
Herald Traveler
Kevin Kelly
the Globe
Elliot Norton
Record American
Price
Norton
Holiday Greens Create Festive Scene of Christmas Decor
The article describes greens used in Christmas decorations from wreaths to trees, noting pagan origins and mystical attributions by ancient cultures. It cites widespread modern use regardless of religious meaning and mentions legends about the first Christmas tree possibly being pale and linked to Egypt.
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Engay
al- Pi
Egypt
Encyclopedia Americana
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
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