Worry Over Trifles and Quiet Miracles Abroad
Kathleen Norris reflects on past wartime charity sending clothing to Europe and a Polish mother's letter of gratitude. She contrasts scarcity and fear abroad with American comforts, urging readers to value basic needs and nature rather than trivial worries.
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Shakespeare
Emily Dickenson
Derivative Gossip and City Talk From Our Town Page
A collage of social vignettes, quotes, and fleeting scenes from New York nightlife and public life. Mentions include Satler and Rogers as hosts, Mussolini body tale, a Radio City elevator incident, Irving Berlin songs, Basie records, Greek studies by the Erskines, Foxes of Harrow deal, Rockefeller Center feud talk, hotel convention notes, and light anecdotes from Ciro’s and the Mermaid Room.
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Irving Berlin
Paramount
Count Basie
Louis
Conn
Kayos
John Erskines
Helen Worden
Greece
Erskine
20Th Century-Fox
Seler
Rockefellers
Rockefeller Center
Radio City
Taken for Granted in Wartime Europe and Asia
A Polish woman recalls luxury before the war and survival through ruin with her husband, brothers, and father dead. She scavenged in a ruined city to feed a child born in a sheep barn. Now post conflict, conditions improve but suffering remains.
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Europe
Asia
Red Cross
Epidemic Fighters Ready to Aid Polio Fight
Four emergency aid units prepared to assist public health authorities in poliomyelitis epidemics. Each unit includes a physician a nurse and two physical therapists and will set up facilities treat patients and train local physicians in new techniques.
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National Foundation For
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