Marines Band Skips Parade Over Rain in Massachusetts
The Tri-City Bicentennial Parade in Leominster Fitchburg and Gardner lost the Marine Corps band from Parris Island after rain began. Officials cited weather and instrument concerns, prompting backlash from locals and a Marine Corps response calling the decision regrettable.
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United States Marines
Massachusetts
Leominster
Fitchburg
Gardner
Marine Corps
Parris Island
S.C
America
Anthony DiGeronimo
Marine Band
Victor W. Leger
Holiday Inn
Robert D. Winship
Worcester
Mass
Telegram and Evening Gazette
Boston College
Leger
United States
Marine Corps Band
Marine Corps Parris Island
Worcester Evening Gazette
New Delhi Rides Hard by Monkey Menace In City Streets
A New Delhi resident and her young son survived a monkey attack as rhesus macaques terrorize the capital. The piece notes “failed terrorists” monkeys roaming the city, with officials limited to token responses and a single well-known monkey catcher claiming a long career.
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Los Angeles Times
New Delhi
India
Donna Hughes
Times of India
Iqbal Malik
Delhi University
Tughlakabad Fort
ISU student named a Rhodes Scholar
ISU senior Modupe Labode, 22, is among 31 Rhodes Scholars for 1988, the sole Iowan honored. She plans a two year stay at Oxford University with tuition and living stipend. Labode grew up in Muscatine and attends Iowa State University with a 3.95 GPA.
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Des Moines
Iowa State University
Modupe Labode
Rhodes Scholarship Trust
Oxford University
England
a_ state land grant university
Twin sister of Dear Abby hosts book tea in Chicago
Abigail Van Buren alias Pauline Phillips twin sister of Ann Landers alum Eppie Lederer hosts about 50 friends for a tea in Chicago. Lederer reads Phillips’s Dear Abby’s Favorite Recipes booklet, saying she hosts parties for her friends’ books.
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Abigail van Buren
Ann Landers
Eppie Lederer
Pauline ‘Pope” Phillips
Dear Abby
Chicago
Lederer
Phillips
Abby
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Bob Greene
Donald Kaul
Tribune Media Service
Liza Minnelli
Frank Sinatra
Brendan Byrne
East Rutherford
N.J
Santa
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
AP News
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Henry Witwer Witwer Insurance
IE Tower
Center Pt
Nevern Cooper Bldg
Mon
Jody
ISU
Rhodes
Ship Trust
Cecil Rhodes
Colonia
World Harmony
Labode
British Empire
Commonwealth
Lagrange
Sylvester Stallone
Thailand
Bangkok
Israel
Tom Gray
Eddie van Halen
van Halen
Tarzana
Richard Margolin
Margolin
Seth Bloomberg
Valerie Bertinelli
DuraSoft
Sears
Optical Department
Ner
Chrysler
Ford
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