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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1956
Page
3
In a lighthearted industry critique, the piece notes American toy inventors boast new talking dolls that drink, cry, and bathe while a Skokie inventor patents a psychosomatic doll. The mockery shifts to a nurse or doctor role and hints at a gloomier future with a bedrest "Ailin Amy" doll.
The narrator riffs on medical exam humor and predicts a new hypochondriac model by Christmas 1957 with a wrist pulse reader simple enough for any child to use. The joke links doctors taking a patient’s pulse to love and marriage and ends with a personal quip about feeling unwell.
Pueblo police chased Wayne H. Gyles 21 after he allegedly sped at 95 mph and crashed into a fence. He claimed an unidentified caller warned him to leave the city, mistaking the police for the threat. Magistrate Fred J. Mack fined him $100.
In Bonham Texas the First National bank saw a slow start to the week as a time lock mix up delayed access. Someone had set the vault timer for Tuesday morning instead of Monday, disrupting early business.
A Cedar Rapids public schools art and music vesper features Wilson high school Four Hearts quartet Don Hulbert Ev Staskal Don Schloss and Ron O Kelly performing barbershop numbers at Memorial Coliseum. Other groups include Franklin high band Buchanan elementary chorus and Roosevelt high school senior choirs.
Residents condemn an online post as the ugliest display of prejudice, prompting local leaders to call for unity and new guidelines on respectful discourse amid mounting complaints from affected groups.
Dr. Harry Wood of the University of Arizona art department says Americans have the ugliest faces due to strain and tension. He singles out big cities, especially New York, as the worst for facial ugliness in a Tuesday night talk.
Iowa Attorney General Dayton Countryman announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in the June primary. The 38-year-old Nevada lawyer and former World War II veteran emphasizes the farm issue and soil fertility bank plan, joining Hickenlooper and Orton in a Republican three way contest.
Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer, told a luncheon club that Americans gain about a thousand hours of spare time per year compared with their grandfather. He said educators and social experts have not kept pace with technologists and that the nation risks wasting leisure wealth.
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