Mamma Lucia main mother of the dead roams Italy seeking unburied soldiers
In Italy, Mamma Lucia Maria Lucia Pisapia Apicella, honored as Die Mutter der Toten, searches battlefields from Salerno to the Gothic Line for missing soldiers. She marks sites with crosses, carries bones to churches, and defers unidentified remains to cemeteries while mourning all fallen as her sons.
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Italy
Mamma Lucia
Maria Lucia Pisapia Apicella
Mamma
Lucia
Cava di Tirreni
Salerno
Monte Cassino
So Where Are The Melodies Coming From
New portable radios take whimsical forms including baseballs, hearing aids, sunglasses, binocular cases, belt buckles, jewelry cases, car mirrors, guns, fishing rod handles and even ball point pens all designed to deliver music discreetly.
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New York
Milady
Hints from Perle On How To Make Dinner a Success
Washington hostess Perle Mestre shares party tips from McCall's July issue. She advises greeting guests promptly, planning and managing the evening, maintaining polish, using a round table for conversation, displaying a seating chart, keeping men and women mingling after dinner, and limiting pre dinner cocktails to thirty minutes.
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Perle
New York
Perle Mesta
Washington
McCall’s Magazine
Pretty muu muu pattern for children
Quick sewing pattern features a sun dress smock and cover-all with matching pants. Includes sizes 2 4 6 8 and a size 6 dress requires 25½ yards of 39 inch fabric. Pattern 4822 priced at fifty cents with ten cents extra for first class mail. Send requests to Anne Adams The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept New York.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Area Masonic Picnic Heads East Iowa Sunday Elkader
Burton North of Jesup will speak at the Northeast Iowa Masonic picnic to be held at Elkader Recreational Park. The Monona lodge hosts the event with a noon potluck at the shelter house and a Kid dy Combo Band from Guttenberg eighth grade led by Dennis Hanna performing in the afternoon.
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Elkader
Burton
Jesup
North East Iowa
Tennessee Ernie Ford Show Promotes Weekday Music Land
Tennessee Ernie Ford and friends invite viewers to join weekday mornings from Monday to Friday at 11 a.m. for music and fun on KCRG TV 9.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
Music Land
Kcrg-Tv
Becomes Bride of Donn E Umphrey
Miss Donna Catherine Turner and Donn Edwin Umphrey wed at Grace Methodist Church in TIFFIN on Sunday afternoon. The ceremony, officiated by Rev. Herbert Foxworthy, featured a Chantilly lace gown with an extended overskirt and train. Matron of honor was Mrs. Philip Justice. bridesmaids included Elizabeth Freyenberger.
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Tiffin
Grace Methodist Church
Donna Catherine Turner
Fred Donald Turner
Oxford
Donn Edwin Umphrey
Sherman Edwin Umphrey
Wayland
Herbert Foxworthy
Chantilly
Philip Justice
Iowa City
Elizabeth Freyenberger
Weddings of Wayland Hoppemen and Dorothy Fiete
Wayland Hoppemen and Dorothy Fiete were married in a church ceremony witnessed by David Matheny as best man. The wedding party included Philip Justice and Harvey Poepel with guests at a reception for 180 in the church parlors. Both graduates of Iowa Wesleyan College, the bride's gown featured mint green organza while the groom wore formal attire.
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Wayland
Dorothy Hoppemen
James Fiete
Traer
Garnaville
Williams
Urbana
Ill
Philip Justice
Iowa City
Harvey Poepel
Mt. Pleasant
Robert Webb
Omaha
Iowa Wesleyan College
Pi Beta Phi Couple Plans Mt Pleasant Wedding
A Pi Beta Phi member and her fiancé plan a wedding next year in Mt. Pleasant. The couple, both teaching at Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, will combine sorority ties with their family celebration.
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Pi Beta Phi
Mt. Pleasant
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