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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1956
Page
5
In a light hearted look at toy innovation a psychosomatic type doll is described to simulate illness with a flushed face fever and thermometer. The doll uses a back lever to toggle symptoms and can be put to bed rest or convalescence reflecting comic medical play.
The cartoonish riff imagines a 1957 Christmas gadget that measures a patient’s pulse at the wrist. The piece jokes that doctors already take the pulse with a thermometer and speculates on a new device that could be easily used by anyone, young or old.
Wayne H. Gyles 21 sped at 95 mph before his car crashed into a fence and he ran away. He claimed an unidentified caller warned him to leave Pueblo, believing the police car was his pursuer. Magistrate Fred J. Mack imposed a $100 fine.
Bonham Texas business at the First National Bank picked up after a slow start. A time lock was set for Tuesday morning instead of Monday morning, delaying access to the vault last weekend.
A Cedar Rapids Public Schools art and music vesper features Wilson high school Four Hearts barbershop quartet with members Hulbert Staskal Schloss and O'Kelly. Performances include Franklin band Buchanan chorus Roosevelt choirs and Roosevelt art display. program ends with America.
Dr. Harry Wood, head of the University of Arizona art department, asserted Tuesday night that Americans have the ugliest faces in the world. He said marks of strain tension and conflict create facial ugliness, with big cities especially New York earning the top spot for ugliness.
Iowa Attorney General Dayton Countryman announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator in the June primary. The 38 year old Nevada law partner stresses the farm issue and urges a vigorous legislative fight in Congress to aid Iowa farmers. Countryman is a former cracker dry advocate and a reserve lieutenant colonel with ties to Nevada and Iowa.
Henry Dreyfuss, noted industrial designer, told a luncheon club in Los Angeles that Americans have a thousand extra hours of spare time annually compared to a previous generation. He argued educators and social thinkers have failed to keep pace with technologists in guiding how to use this wealth of leisure.
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