Reporter Jean Strong Joins Life Magazine Princess Tour
Jean Strong, Cedar Rapids native and former Center Point editor, leaves for a month to cover Princess Margaret’s royal tour with Life magazine. She will accompany photographer Leonard McCombe, filing captions from Trinidad to Jamaica while balancing travel with newsroom duties.
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John Reynolds
Gazette
Jean Strong
Cedar Rapids
Center Point Independent
Miss Strong
Life Magazine
Foreign News Department
New York
Britain
Princess Margaret
the Independent
University of Iowa
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Life
Gene Farmer
Carol
Center Point
Venezuela
Trinidad
Grenada
St. Vincent
Barbados
Antigua
St. Kitts
Jamaica
Bahamas
Royal Yacht
Royal
Leonard McCombe
McCombe
Strong
Europe
Edna Herbst
Lois Emanuel
Marion
Racine Families Swap Houses This Afternoon
In Racine Wisconsin the Tishuk family and the Pias family plan a house swap after deciding their homes no longer fit their growing families. The VA mortgage issue was resolved, allowing the exchange of homes four doors apart.
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Racine, Wis
Peter Tishuk
George Pias
Tishuks
Pias
Karen
Mrs. Pias
Mrs. Tishuk
Italian Family Settling Down In U S Life
Detroit AP story follows Giovanni Rotondo his wife Elisa and daughters Maria and Josephine as they adapt to American life after arriving from Casino Dec 11 as refugees. They study English attend a foreign children’s school ride streetcars shop in Detroit learn customs and await adjustment and reunion with two sons in Windsor Ontario.
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C. Roger Goelz
Detroit
Giovanni Rotondos
Rotondos
Giovanni
Elisa
Maria
Josephine
Rotondo
United States
Casino
Vettiglio
Polk School Runs Polio Fund Rental Library
A sixth grader Robert Badenock conceived a rental library at Polk School to raise funds for polio. With William Aldershot and James Lane, he stocked mystery stories in a booth, charging five cents a week. By Friday the drive reached seven dollars, boosting reading. Hardy Boy and Nancy Drew volumes were soon exhausted and classics like Robinson Crusoe and Tom Sawyer were added.
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Polk School
Robert Badenock
William Aldershot
James Lane
No More Model Planes for Him
Sunnyvale California report says Navy pilot Ernest Callaway aged 28 plans to quit flying model airplanes after a wire attached model struck a 12,000 volt power line and knocked him unconscious. He had prior success piloting real aircraft.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Ernest Callaway
Used yard sign misdirects Eldon Roark across state
Eldon Roark in Huntingdon Tennessee mailed a used yard sign reading The Eldon Roarks to a stranger with the same name in another city about 100 miles away.
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Huntingdom
Tenn
Eldon Roark
Eldon Roarks
Assisi Frescoes Restored At Church Of St Francis
Restoration completes a long effort to return two Cimabue linked frescoes to their left transept positions in Assisi. The works Three Angels and The Archangel St Michael were removed to Rome for careful conservation and will be reinstalled by summer.
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Washington
Italy
St. Francis
Assisi
Cimabue
St. Michael
Rome
Italian Institute For Restoration
Isone
Francis
Giotto
Neighbors Aid Arrest in Slaughterhouse Burglary
Oklahoma City police say detectives arrested 21 year old Stanley Gipson after neighbors reported a dog eating a 20 pound ham, leading to charges of burglary of a slaughterhouse.
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Oklahoma City
Stanley Gipson
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Florentine
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Oelwein
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Mercy Hospital
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Kobbe
Mulekoff
Philco TV
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