Dear Abby Letters on Wedding Guests and Widowhood
A reader asks if ex spouses should be invited to a wedding and where they belong in the receiving line. Abby advises inviting only the groom's biological parents and current spouses to stand in line. A widow asks how to answer questions about her husband's death. Abby says there is no polite way to refuse but suggests stating he was ill and took his own life to end further questioning.
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Abby
Bride
New Yorker
Copper bracelets and pills myths in health column
Doctor answers readers on copper bracelets offering no real arthritis benefit and warns against replacing medical treatment. Another reader asks about birth control pills raising blood pressure. NIH notes a small average rise in diastolic and systolic pressures.
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Dr. Solomon
Monica Q
Monica
National Institutes of Health
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Beneficiary Change Rules Upheld In Texas Appeal
The Texas Court of Civil Appeals ruled that altering life insurance beneficiaries requires following the policy's specified method. Mr Jackson’s will could not override the named beneficiaries without written notice to the insurer. Robert, dissatisfying as he was, received $300,000 as the policy intended.
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Jackson
Helen
Robert
Mr. Jackson
Texas Court of Civil Appeals
Rose Perfect Singer Dies at 83 in Hollywood Nursing Home
Funeral service planned for Saturday for Rose Perfect a renowned singer in the 1920s and 1930s who died of an apparent heart attack in a Hollywood nursing home at age 83 She starred in four George White Scandals editions and headlined in New York and Hollywood. ON THIS DATE in 1848 Sicily declared independence from Naples.
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Los Angeles
Rose Perfect
America
England
Miss Perfect
Hollywood
George White
New York
Island
Sicily
Naples
U S plans to sell old silver dollars
Almost a million silver dollars long stored in a U S Treasury vault will be auctioned by the General Services Administration. Most are uncirculated Carson City coins from the last century with values far above face value, limited by condition and date, and sales await congressional approval to streamline procedures.
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Washington
U.S. Treasury
Carson City
General Services Administration
GSA
Jay Solomon
Tuna Fishing Outlook Improves With Quota Compliance
In San Diego, tuna fishing shows improved prospects as government porpoise quotas are met easily. After a tough year due to conservation-driven limits, the first quarter of 1978 saw 2,038 porpoises killed accidentally, toward a yearly quota of 51,946.
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San Diego
Calif
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