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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1996
Page
2
Mike Royko riffs on holiday travel and shopping crowds. He mocks the misery of Thanksgiving gatherings, notes dysfunctional families are common, and jokes about people treating relatives as TV fodder. He argues hype masks deeper economic signals and ends with Royko’s signature spoof on Scrooge.
Collectors pay up to 50 000 dollars for top fountain pens with names like Parker Aztec and Waterman Snake. Bruce E. Johnson notes in Country Living that vintage pens appear in antiques shops and estate discoveries, with early models dating to Lewis Edson Waterman in 1884 after earlier ink-spitting issues.
For his second inauguration President Clinton invites Arkansan Miller Williams opera star Jessye Norman and singer Santita Jackson to perform during a scaled down Jan 18 20 program that honors Martin Luther King Day. The event will be led by Chief Justice Rehnquist with Vice President Gore sworn in by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Gazette acknowledges a misspelling of Park Hyun-Doo as president of Pacific Consultant Corp in Friday's report on a South Korean mayor's Cedar Rapids visit. A correction will be published and readers may contact the newspaper at 398-8313.
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