How Do You Look Handsome Movie Stars
Edith Head explains ways to appear slimmer using dark lines to break up areas like the chest and stomach. She notes men vary in taste, preferring simple, well dressed looks over overly flashy styles, citing Paul Newman Joanne Woodward and others. The piece mentions the body shirt trend for 1972 as a sleek cross between shirt and swimwear.
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Paul Newman
Joanne
Woodward
Richard Barton
Bob Wagner
Fred Astaire
Mourner Copes Comforts Another in Kansas City
A 15 year old grandmother of four orphan boys seeks guidance after a mother of four faces separation. Mrs Milan D Conrad of Omaha describes telling the children their father would not return and later their mother was gone. She recalls a minister’s reassuring view of life and heaven. The Carpenters rely on welfare after a cancer death and a stolen car worsens their finances. A trust fund tops $1,000 and a cemetery will cover burial costs.
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Kansas City
Milan D
Conrad
Omaha
Ned
Bill Carpenter
Patrick J. Kelly
Vietnam
Nola
Dear Polly lamp helps dough rise in cool rooms
A reader explains using a pull-down lamp above a dinette to warm dough that rises slowly in cold rooms. She notes the lamp kept on long enough to speed leavening and offers the tip as a solution. The message also advises saving worn shoes with solid soles for growing children who wear out skates.
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Polly
Helen
Polly’s Problem Dear Polly
A reader shares DIY hacks and home advice covering handy tools, dust removal from a three foot ship model, decorative floral arrangements in vases, plant labeling concerns, shirt stain remedies, and other domestic tips from Polly and fellow caretakers.
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Polly
J. W
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