Cross Creek Awe Inspires War Time Readers
Beth Rawlings' Cross Creek hailed as a vivid memoir of life on her Florida farm with Miss Martha Geechee and neighbors. The review praises her cooking, patience, humor, and humane approach to colored workers, calling the book a tonic for war nerves and a standout Book of the Month.
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Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Miss Rawlings
Martha
Little Will
Geechee
Florida
South Moon
America
Hunter
Cook
Old Martha
Leroy
Rawlings
Morison profiles Columbus as a vivid seafarer and thinker
The review surveys Samuel Eliot Morison's biography Columbus by Little, Brown, praising the author for reconstructing the explorer as a dynamic, religiously devout, courageous figure who challenged the era’s maps. It notes Morison’s meticulous research, nautical detail, and the shift from myth to a fully realized personality.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Little, Brown and Company
Morison Presents Columbus as A Sea Man Not Largely Fortunate
The author portrays Columbus in landsman language showing his sixth sense at sea and his stubborn courage across voyages. Morison makes readers relive the explorer’s Great Adventure, evoking sympathy for a man who died embittered and overlooked by royal favor.
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Morison
Augustus Caesar
Mr. Morison
Columbus
Gene Farmer
Repeats Nuptial Vows Saturday in Mt. Pleasant
Thelma Ruth Mathews became Mrs E John Larson in a home ceremony at 1560 Third Avenue SE with Dr Marion H Williams officiating. Attendants wore blue and peach. reception followed. The bride, a Mt Pleasant nurse, and groom with Toledo roots and Macmillan Publishing ties. Also note Mrs Keller to visit Texas.
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E. John Larson
Thelma Ruth Mathews
I. E. Mathews
Mt. Pleasant
F. H. Fleming
Third Avenue SE
Marion H. Williams
First Christian Church
Toledo
Mathews
Patricia Jean
Florence Russell
Howard Russell
Sheridan
Mich
Larson
St. Luke’s Hospital School of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Dennison University
Ohio
The
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
Macmillan Publishing Company
Keller
Texas
Linn Legion Auxiliary to Hold Meeting in Lisbon
The Linn county American Legion Auxiliary conference will convene Thursday at Lisbon starting at 10 a.m. with registration led by Mrs. John Phillips and Mrs. H. C. Davis. Sessions include pledges, anthem, invocation, and reports from units in Cedar Rapids Center Point Central City Coggon Ely Fairfax Lisbon Marion Mt. Vernon Walker.
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Linn County
American Legion Auxiliary
Lisbon
A. R. Hoffman
Central City
American Legion Hall
John Phillips
Ely
H. C. Davis
A. A. Selzer
Fairfax
J. Bumgardner
Center Point
Louis Schirm
Cedar Rapids
Charles Beach
J. B. Edwards
Walker
Forrest Johnston
Coggan
Harold Davis
Coggon
Marion
Mt. Vernon
Harlan Briggs
Methodist Church
Shirley Johnson
Darlene Dunn
Mary Ellen Sawyer
Don Sheldon
L. B. Hakes
Charlotte Graver
L. A. Davis
Briggs
L. F. Davis
Mary Halit
Local Weds Rae Murrell in Houston Episcopal Church
Announcement reports Miss Rae Murrell formerly of Cedar Rapids and now Houston resident wed Francis Phillips of New York City at River Oaks Episcopal church in Houston. The ceremony featured maid of honor Alberta Rowley and best man Harold Murrell, with a post nuptial trip to Galveston.
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Rae Murrell
Ray Murrell
Houston
Texas
Cedar Rapids
Francis Phillips
New York City
River Oaks Episcopal Church
Alberta Rowley
Harold Murrell
Galveston
Phillips
Phillips Petroleum Company
New York State
Nuptials Unite Miss Hall and Lieut Grafton at St Mark’s
Wed Friday ceremony at St Mark's Episcopal chapel in Shreveport Louisiana united Miss Margaret Hall of Kansas City with Lieut William L. Grafton of Barksdale field. Bride daughter of Mr and Mrs F B Hall Nebraska City Neb and wore blue brown print dress with blue coat orchids. Grafton a Franklin high school graduate and Iowa State College alumnus trained as a cadet in the army air corps and is stationed at Barksdale field. Both mothers attended the ceremony.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel
Shreveport
Margaret Hall
Kansas City
William L. Grafton
Barksdale Field
M. L. Grafton
F. B. Hall
Nebraska City
Grafton
Ward Belmont College
Nashville
Tenn
Iowa State College
University of Kansas City
Lieut
Franklin High School
Army Air Corps
King City
Calif
Moffett Field
Lake Field
Ariz
Grinnell Prom Honors Marjorie Ellis Queen
Marjorie Ellis of Stuart was honored as prom queen at the Grinnell event held last night.
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Grinnell
Stuart
Woman's Club Departments Event Schedule and Notices
The history and literature group holds a department photo at 2 15 p.m. Monday before a business session. Mrs. Frank Gates reviews Claudia by Rose Franken and Pearl Buck writings. American home dept hosts a dessert bridge party Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. at the club house. Reservations with several members. Wednesday features a department picture and a talk by Dr. Dell G Hitchner of Coe College on international relations, ending with a picnic lunch. Current events join the international relations group for luncheon Wednesday at 1 p.m. The study covers The American Soldier in Camp Today with talks on various Soldier topics. An attorney discusses a trip to South America and music is planned for the philanthropy session Thursday, with sewing for Red Cross at 10 a.m. A luncheon at 1 p.m. Hostesses listed. The business session and program include duets and solos by Coe College students and McKinley High School performers. The Past Presidents association hosts a Thursday luncheon at Mrs. C. Kellogg’s home, with a wild flowers talk by Mrs. S. R. Hawkins. Workshop Friday at 10 a.m. includes a dramatic art picnic at 1 p.m. The health education Husbands’ night is Friday at 8 30 p.m. in 7C B J hall, with in-charge couples listed. Chorus rehearsal Wednesday morning. News notes: Mr. and Mrs. E. Wolfe of Burlington and children Beverly and Jimmy move to Guthrie, Kentucky. Wolfe to work on an armored division plant in Clarksville Tennessee. The Wolfes lived at 835 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Fred Kisroe of Eagle Lake and daughter visit Mrs. Louise Smith at 311 First Ave SW.
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Frank Gates
Claudia
Rose Franken
S. C. Stookey
Pearl Buck
B L. Wick
South America
Philanthropic Department
Red Cross
D. P. Schwartzentruber
Walter Heather
Anna Calderwood
Clayton P. Smith
H. Schlesselman
BE. R. Wolfe
Burlington
Beverly
Jimmy
Cedar Rapids
Gutherie
Mr. Wolfe
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
Clarksville
Tenn
Armored Division
Wolfes
Third Avenue SE
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Charles Scribner's Sons
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Doubleday, Doran
Europe
Mr. St. John
Associated Press
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Greece
Crete
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Alexandria
Bob Estabrook
Eastman
Sanford
India
Japan
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East
Eratosthenes
Ptolemy
Spain
Paul W. Dempsey
Houghton Mifflin
Gazette
Waltham Field
Massachusetts State College
Dempsey
Naomi Doebel
ST. Louis
Joyce and
Lehoma Bridges
Lighteenth Avenue
Allen Bouser
Don Womabacher
Scottfield, Ill
Rosella Womabacher
Jean Matthes
Cleatus Kinney
Howard Womabacher
Iowa City
Lehtoma Bridges
Mecca Hall
University of Iowa
Layton Sturdivant
Henry the Fourth
Monday Shakespeare Club
Olive Tower
First Avenue
Areme Circle
Mohn
Aremue
Circle of Cedar Chapter
Willis Mohn
Bever Avenue SE
Robert B. Moore
China
Sally Mohn
the Mines
Robert McNabney
Wes Benesh
Marie Jirsa
Edward Coler
Grayce Roberts
George Russell
Jesse Bennett
Michael Griffin
Fred Bokorney
Frank Jesina
Alicin Robertson
Louise Yuill
Elizabeth Bellhart
Walter Jackson
Miss Jane Rice
Twin Cities
Jane Rice
Avenue NE
Minneapolis and
St. Paul
Y.W.C.A
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Campbell
Colorado
Jean Ashby
Delbert R. Ashby
Country Club Parkway SE
Marjorie Clapp
San Francisco
University of Colorado At Boulder
John Keller
Mineral Wells
Lieut. Keller
Montrose
Linn Legion Auxiliary
Lorraine Leehman
Wilfred Millard
Fred W. Leehman
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Wilfred H. Millard
Fred Millard
Kahoka
Robert J. Fuller
C. R
Jo Janos Petersen
Helen Petersen
A. Petersen
Wilson Avenue
Tom Janos
Thomas Janos
Second Street
Vallejo
Janos
Mare Island Navy Yard
Faun Myers
C. L. Myers
Fourth Avenue SW
Miss Faun Lois Myers
James Cassidy
Jack Dillon
Sara Ann Brown
Ames
Bever Avenue
Brown
Wilson High School
Montieur
Martin-Senour
Second Avenue St
Mar
Jorie Ellis
Miss Rebecca Hall
Man
Mr. and
Mrs. M. S
Hallman
Woman's Club Departments
American Home Department
Mines
J. A. Bundy
William Boyer
W. A Wick
A. C Goodall
A. T. DeBow
Clarence Smith
Department
Dell G. Hitchner
Coe College
Maple Room
Robert E. Campbell
W. R. Armstrong
E. L. Russell
Bertha LeFebvre
Armstrong
Coe
Betty Jean Stephenson
Marilyn Parks
McKinley High School
Frances Marshall
McKinley
Past Presidents Association
C. Kellogg
Park Avenue SE
Frank H. Keyser
Ben Ogden
J. W. Ballard
S. R. Hawkins
Dramatic Art Department
J. P. Mills
Roy E. Taylor
Arthur C. Goodall
G. Y. Swartzendruber
M. Thompson
Dakota
Arizona
California
Health Education Department
B. J. Hall
Harry Hoyt
John Heins
F. B. Benesh
C. L. Gunn
Tennessee
Fred Kisroe
Eagle Lake
Mrs. Kisroe
Mrs
Louise Smith
Lydia Wehmeier Perkins
1St Ave. E
Dial
Newman
Cherub
Newman’s Beauty Salon