Spring Book Festival Highlights New Historical Poems
LDER HIGH SCHOOL students and adults welcome A Book of Historical Poems by William R. Bowlin from Albert Whitman and Company with poems prefaced by historical background. Also featured Dances of Our Pioneers by Grace L. Ryan with music by Robert T. Benford and illustrations by Brooks Emerson. The article praises Bald Knobbers, Indian Oasis, Squawtown and Skycruiser among other adult and youth books, and notes a Cedar Rapids Merry Melodeers home orchestra formed by GB Johnson students under parental guidance.
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LDER
William R. Bowlin
Albert Whitman and Company
Grace L. Ryan
Robert T. Benford
Brooks Emerson
A. S. Barnes
Captain Jinks
Caxton
Caldwell
Idaho
Lucile Morris
Janette Woodruff
Cecil Dryden
Squawtown
Will M. Hundley
Ozark Hills
Bald Knobbers
The
Dra
Piute
Indiana
Howard M. Brier
Random House
Maribelle Cormack
William P. Alexander
D. Appleton-Century
America
Bunker Hill
GB Johnson School
Cedar Rapids
Texas teacher offered all expenses paid trip to world fairs
Colorado Springs reports a Texas manufacturer praised Miss Mary Everett a third grade teacher by offering an all expenses paid plane trip to either world fair in gratitude for teaching his son this year.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Texas
Mary Everett
Squirrel Becomes Pet Joins Indiana Family
In Indiana BABY, a pet squirrel named Menney joins the Glody family. Shot at a hawk revealed the creature is a two baby squirrel survivor. Mrs Glody feeds it by eye dropper and bottle. Menney plays with relatives but avoids strangers.
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Joseph Glody
Glody
Mother’s Day Deluxe Cake Surprise Party Plan
A Mother's Day surprise party planned for May 14 with a tea inviting close friends. Menu features watercress sandwiches stuffed celery minced chicken sandwiches tea or coffee and a two layer Mother’s Day cake baked by children with marshmallow icing. Includes cake recipe and icing instructions.
Pop Quiz Riddles from Classic Tales and Plays
Five questions test knowledge of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Little Eva characters, The Merchant of Venice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a boy and a fence, and Alice in Wonderland. Correct answers yield 20 points each, totaling 100 for a perfect score.
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Asia
Australia
Uncle Tom
Little Eva
Hired Man’s Elephant and Lions and Magic Strings
Iowa scene author Phil Stong introduces The Hired Man's Elephant published by Dodd, Mead. Doris Lee illustrated the book featuring Bat the terrier and appealing humor for junior and senior high readers. Lion Boy by Alden G. Stevens invites adventure for 10 to 15 year olds with fact mixed in. Magic Strings by Remo Bufano offers marionette plays for 8 to 14 year olds and teachers. Printer's Devil by Adam Allen presents a town paper partnership tale for 12 year olds. Mason Advance features Bob Wilson learning newspaper production basics.
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Iowa
Phil Stong
Dodd, Mead and Company
Mr. Stong
Doris Lee
Metropolitan Art Museum
Chicago Art Institute
Simba
Androcles
Adam Allen
Macmillan Company
Mason
Bob Wilson
Left-Handers Get Special Desks with Inkwells in England
In parts of England school authorities supply desks fitted with inkwells for left handed students, aiming to ease writing. The arrangement reflects efforts to accommodate different writing styles within classrooms.
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England
A GOOD FINE BOOK PROMOTES ADVENTURE
JAY EMERY of Wilson Junior High School Cedar Rapids invites readers to flip back the cover of a book. He describes journeys with King Richard Hannibal Spartans Perry Khan Boone Santa Fe and more, urging classmates to settle in with a good read.
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Richard
Jay Emery
Wilson Junior High School
Cedar Rapids
Books for Young Folks Highlight Pets and Lions
A newspaper item reviews children's titles including Mr Heinie and Scroot by Mary Alice and Aldarilla S Beistle about a dachshund and a scraggly dog, Herbert the Lion by Clare Turlay Newberry, Lucio and his Nuong by Lucy Herndon Crockett, Something Surprising by Gladys Adshead, and The Watchbirds by Munro Leaf. It notes color pictures and appeal to both kids and adults, with emphasis on engaging illustrations and simple explanations.
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Heinie
Dachshund
Raggedy Scroot
Mr. Heinie
Scroot
Herbert the Lion
Clare Turlay Newberry
Harper and Brothers
Mittens
Philippines
Lucio
Lucy Herndon Crockett
Henry Holt
Earth
Gladys Adshead
Helen Rinald
Oxford University Press
Munro Leaf
Stokes
Mr. Leaf
Mother's Day Contest in The Junior Gazette Cedar Rapids
A Mother's Day contest offers a grand prize of $10 in books for private, parochial, or public school students 18 and under. Entries must be a prose or poetry piece or artwork, due by 5 p.m. Tuesday May 9. mailings by May 8 for out of town entrants.
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Junior Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Plane causes school tardiness in Somerset
A Weston-super-Mare boy blamed a late plane for his late arrival at school. The Cardiff Weston air service, often used by schoolboys on weekend leave, was delayed by heavy rains that flooded the Cardiff airfield.
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London
Westonsuper-Mare
Somerset
Cardiff
Weston-super-Mare
Correction of gendered remark on appearance
English Professor Joe Gish notes the sentence uses singular and plural mismatch and gendered bias. The corrected version would read Girls are naturally more attractive than boys and should be analyzed for bias.
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Joe
Joe Gish
Puppet Opera Company Delights New York World Fair
A 13 inch puppet opera troupe from Chicago stages full scale operas at the World Fair Court of Flame. Ernest Wolff at age 12 began crafting synchronized puppet shows and now leads a 160 puppet cast with a 50 member orchestra performing Aida La Traviata I Pagliacci and Faust. The group will perform multiple shows daily for the first 26 weeks.
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Ernest Wolff
la Scala Opera
Milan
Metropolitan
Chicago
Hirteen
Wolff
Puppet Grand Opera Company
Metropolitan Opera Company
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Abraham Lincoln
Tom Taylor
Luther Patrick
Langdon Smith
Rachel Lindsay
Alice Meynell
Edith Cavell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stories of Pioneers
iMary Leigh Larson
Johnson School
Irene Pauly
Bob Manatt
Mary Ann Pauly
Mary Leigh Larson
Jim Grissel
Clari
Bill Chadima
Merry Melodeers
M. C. Larson
Theone Larson
W. R. Grissel
Joan Grissel
Leonard T. Paula
Irene
L. C. Chadima
R. W. Manatt
Paul Anthony
McKinley District
NEA
Ick
Antonio
Shylock
Portia
Bassanio
Alice
Show Dog
Bat
Stephen W. Meader
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Africa
Lion Boy
Alden G. Stevens
Remo Bufano
Macmillan
Boris Artzybasheff
Herbert
Young Man
N. Y. World's Fair
Mephistopheles
Faust
Marguerite
Aida
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