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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1983
Page
26
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A Missouri reader asks about insuring sick relatives for big payouts with themselves as beneficiaries. Abby says this is naive and unethical, suggesting a life insurance salesman visit. another letter shares a colored toilet paper allergy tied to infections and urges plain paper. The column closes with advice to stop hinting and be direct with puzzle items about junk gifts and space limits.
A columnist jokes about Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana in endlessly worn hats, imagining a royal hatmaker living in a castle basement. The piece playfully warns young women about fashion obsessions and the cost of public image before a crown.
An odd addition sits among Nebraska Capitol busts a gold ceramic pig atop a pedestal labeled DeCamp's Pig. The plaque cites DeCamp's famous Trust Me line and notes ensnined April 1 1983. DeCamp says jokesters likely spirited it from his office after a Golden Pig Award incident.
Ten years ago the Soviet Union said its space workshop Soyuz II completed its mission ahead of schedule and without reported complications.
UPI reports the top piano sale price reached $390,000 for an 1888 Steinway grand auctioned by Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York.
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