Designer Bends by Mass Market Needs in New York
New York designer Ben Seidel, balancing art and commerce, adapts to trends in dinnerware with Mikasa and Homer Laughlin. He values bold color while fearing a future shortage of design resources as couples increasingly shop for home furnishings themselves.
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New York
Nea
Ben Seidel
Lower Fifth Avenue
Jwhn
Kenneth
Galbraithn
The
Times
Seidel
Very Important Dress Pattern Ad Promotes Spring Styles
An advertisement urges purchase of Misses' dress pattern 4794 from Anne Adams via Cedar Rapids Gazette. Includes sizes 8 through 16, yardage for size 12, price 75 cents plus 25 cents air mail handling, and mailing details to New York. Also promotes fashion catalogs and sewing books with prices.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Dear Polly letters on stains from bananas and film screen care
Readers discuss removing banana stains from children's clothes by cutting stalk ends and discarding the lump. Another tip suggests sun drying a movie screen to fade yellow glue discoloration, with notes on Bead loss and the need for a new screen. A reader shares a tidied bedmaking system with labeled shelves for sheets.
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Polly
JK. A
Pally
A.D
William
Polly's Problem Dear Polly Homemaking Advice
A reader asks about rules for placing lamp shades and sides. MABEL praises a contour sheet folding technique taught from Polly's column and shares a homemaking idea. Send Polly ideas in care of The Gazette for a possible dollar prize.
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Polly
The
Gazette
Governor Is Powerless to Act on Fashion Request
Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus replied to a Boise girl’s plea to bring back maxiskirts, saying he has no influence on fashion. He noted, as a husband and father of three daughters, that no governor can decide fashion trends and winning an election was easier by comparison.
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Boise
Idaho
Cecil BD
D. Andrus
Hally Shutz
Ron
Joyce Winkles
Naming a Baby After a Deceased Son Sparks Family Debate
Abigail Van Buren weighs a letter about a sister who named her newborn after a brother's late boy. Readers consider intentions and possible hurt, urging sensitivity to grieving parents before judging the naming choice.
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Addy
Mother's Grades Tie For Top In Police Training Group
Kathleen Alexander a 28 year old mother of two graduates with the second highest grade in a police basic training class with two men She commuted from Leavenworth Kan to the Northwest Missouri law enforcement center in Independence and will become community relations director with the Leavenworth police department The class included firearms marksman ship judo and outdoor inspections in rain or shine.
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Independence
Kathleen Alexander
Married couples taking trips together sparks parental debate
A mother questions overnight trips with boyfriends and asks for opinions. She notes her daughter is dependable but worries about propriety. The mother and daughter discuss changing norms and independence and whether to trust youth today.
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Israel
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New York City
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Pratt Institute
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Mabel
Ryan Dyneal
Lesley Warren
Pete Haskell
ABC
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Cole
ARLAN
First Avenue East
Abigail van Buren
New England
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Henry Fonda
Ee Hiltbrunner
Bishops
Navas
Sheldon
Anld
Boddicker School OF Music
First Avenue
Lindale Prats
Betty Hajek
Sears
Sears Interior Decorating
Alma McShane
Tweedy
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Phono
Jean’s Fashions
Center Point Road Plaza
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