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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1950
Page
4
McKinley high plans The Farmer's Daughter with Yvonne Slade sidelined by laryngitis. Jean Ogden dubbed the lines from the loudspeaker. A Lisbon couple rushes to hospital as And Baby Makes Three twists the night at the Iowa. Judge Gaffney earns praise for restraint in Bednasek murder case.
The piece mixes light social items from Cedar Rapids society. It notes a robin braving snow, Mary Distelhorst’s bonnet, and mentions neighbors Wendy Delzell Vergil Caldwell Tommy Lange and Katie Argow with wedding finery and club activities. It covers home projects, fashion details, a taxi money plea, and recent social gatherings at the Country Club and C R C C.
Mrs. Earle J. Nichols is the Cedar Rapids P E O Council president assisted by Mrs. Clark Van Meter and others. The council lists officers for nine local P E O chapters DK F0 6M H1 IF IH II II1 and UT with presidents and secretaries named for each chapter.
The Iowa Poetry Association will hold a district workshop at the Roosevelt hotel on March 28 with dinner at 6 30 p.m. Dr Grace Hunter of Grinnell College will conduct the workshop and critique submitted poems. Dr Clyde Tull of Cornell College will give an address. Reservations go to Naomi Cole Gay. Delegations from nearby towns will attend and other sessions are planned statewide ending with Des Moines fall meet.
Elizabeth North Hoyt reviews The Feast by Margaret Kennedy. Set in postwar England a seaside hotel hosts a summer gathering of varied guests with Nancibel the decisive heroine as a picnic saves the Cove children. The novel blends love stories with moral drama and a suspenseful foretold tragedy.
Publishers Weekly compiling fiction and non fiction best sellers includes The Parasites by Daphne Du Maurier The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger The Egyptian by Mika Wal tari Gentiane by Elizabeth Goud The Poem Mouth by Joyce Cary and non fiction titles The Mature Mind by H A Overstreet This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt White Collar Zoo by Clare Barnes jr Home Sweet Zoo by Clare The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp
Commissioner Belin recounts his career and the Surete’s rise to curb crime in democratic France. He describes involvement in major crimes and conspiracies over 25 years, mixing historical fact with the drama of law enforcement. The narrative also notes the system’s monotony and frequent failures.
Elizabeth Reynolds notes Admiral Belin’s diary offers a broad history of wartime and postwar events. It covers Belin’s links to Landru and King Alexander’s murder, Joan de Koven’s death, and many international crimes, plus his Vichy involvement and foreword by President Truman.
Admiral William D Leahy recalls his close access to world events from Vichy through World War II conferences Cairo Tehran Yalta and Potsdam He diaryed every stop and served in the Roosevelt White House as chief of staff and military expediter adviser and confidant until 1949
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