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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1951

Page

2

Peace and Liberty movement reshapes French election

Jean-Paul David, 39, mayor of Mantes and radical socialist deputy, leads Paix et Liberte a non-political anti Communist campaign in France. Posters, radio broadcasts, and thousands of volunteers push a message of liberty against Soviet influence ahead of elections.

ARIS NEA Paris Jean-Paul David France Picasso David Mantes Paix Et Liberte Russia Communist Party

Pulitzer Prize Poet Turns Sign Painter

Pulitzer winner Robert P. Tristram Coffin designs a library sign at the University of Cincinnati to honor Stephen Foster. The Stephen Collins Foster room houses the second largest collection of Foster memorabilia in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Robert P. Tristram Coffin University of Cincinnati Stephen Foster

Playgrounds Open Monday For 9 Weeks

Cedar Rapids will launch fifteen summer playgrounds with trained staff for nine weeks starting Monday at 10 am. Twenty eight workers and youths will supervise activities from 6 to 17 years. adults have programs too. Each area offers sports crafts games and events with weekly hikes and community nights.

Cedar Rapids

Barber Says Mustache Trend Menace to Husbands

New York barber John Sidiri notes many men want mustaches or beards but are blocked by wives. He cites Judge Medina and Judge Murphy as inspirations, yet most men abandon the plan after brief experimentation. Sidiri says the reaction is a social joke with no lasting change.

New York John Sidiri Sidiri Harold Medina Thomas F. Murphy

Peggy Ann's Dad Receives Heartwarming Father's Day Gift

In New York Memorial Center for Cancer Peggy Ann Smith 10 cheered her father J. C. Smith after a hemorrhaging brain cancer ordeal. Funds from Peggy Ann Smith day in North Carolina supported care as she improves eating and strength with constant hospital feeding while mother Lucille Smith arrives from Rockingham.

Smith Peggy Ann New York Peggy Ann Smith Memorial Center For Cancer J. C. Smith Rockingham N. C North Carolina Richmond County The American Legion Lucille Smith Henry Tate Watson and King Funeral Home

Drive Much

Drive Much describes public attitudes toward early automobiles in West Branch and the U.S. It recounts the first car owners public reception and farmer hostility, plus a note on repairs. It also cites Delmar G. Roos on how smoother driving and proper maintenance improve gasoline mileage and reduce waste.

Bernie Corbin The Gazette West Branch Corbin

Vast Fires Mark Icelands Desolate Northern Hearth

National Geographic reports Iceland holds a vast burned wilderness called the fire focus of the north. Sulphur beds geysers and mud cauldrons testify to dying fires beneath the earth, signaling a dramatic geologic upheaval in the northern landscape.

Washington Iceland National Geographic

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