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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1967
Page
7
Local feature in the Cedar Rapids Gazette highlights women of the Girl Society. The article appears in the May 16 1967 edition and centers on Spirit. Additional fragmentary text references ILBJ fakes and a person named Mo ran.
Mary Wilson, wife of British prime minister Harold Wilson, avoids public scrutiny and prefers a sheltered life in Downing Street’s private rooms. An Oxford-educated poet and teacher, she cooks little and oversees a compact household, cherishing romantic Victorians, poetry, and memories from Chequers.
Anne Fogarty was divorced in Juarez from Tom Fogarty after twenty years and may wed Dick Kollmar next. Elizabeth Taylor receives a Paparazzi Plaque after The Taming of the Shrew. Perle Mesta travels to Washington with Marusia dresses, planning White House dinners, while a Moroccan embassy cocktail gathers guests including Ahmed Benhima and Mark Goodson.
Doris Kearns, 24, a Harvard graduate student and White House fellow, faces scrutiny after co authoring a piece advocating a third party to defeat Johnson in 1968. The article suggested Liberals could swing votes away from Democrats to help a moderate Republican win. The piece, coauthored with Stanford Levinson, was published after Johnson welcomed the fellows at a reception.
Four girls from Cedar Rapids and Eastern Iowa were initiated Saturday by the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at State College. The new initiates are Corrine Krebs of Cedar Rapids, Barbara Snively of Hazleton, Donna L. Huffman of Keswick, and Carol Brecht of Marengo. Keith Peterson, a French teacher at Vinton Community Schools, was chosen among 40 participants from 250 applicants for the 1967 NDEA French Institute at Kansas State Teachers College, running June 15 to August 2. In Fayette, Gary Mardorf was elected president of the Beta Theta Phi fraternity at Upper Iowa College for the coming year.
The Masters Howell movement event at the YMCA saw first place awarded to the Mines team led by Robert Smoker and Charles Leipold with Mrs. John Stamy and Frank Zeman earning second place.
Residents of the Linn County Home will host a recognition tea on the home lawn Wednesday at 1 p.m. Linn-Mar band and chorus provide music as churches and groups honor volunteers. Ten Coe College students, 25 Cornell students, and six Mt. Mercy students who tutor at Jane Boyd Community House will be recognized, along with 17 local high school seniors who joined the program. A horseback ride and picnic at Sugar Bottom stables near Lisbon follows. Bus departs at 4:45 p.m. Dick Freeman and Mrs. Mildred Shropshire lead the event.
Members of the Home Builders auxiliary will meet Thursday at 7 30 at the home of Mrs Larry Bjornsen 3239 Parkview Court SE Nettie Keilholtz a cosmetics buyer will speak.
The Book of the Month Club paid $325000 for Svetlana Alliluyeva daughter of Josef Stalin rights to publish her memoirs. Axel Rosin says this is the highest sum for such a purchase and the amount serves as a guaranteed advance against royalties. Publication is set for October 16 by Harper Row.
Miss Ruth Nieting daughter of the Albert Nietings married Everett Kruckenberg son of the Richard Kruckenbergs in Trinity Lutheran church at 7 30 officiated by Rev Earl Elowsky. The couple will reside in London where Kruckenberg runs a plumbing and heating firm and Ruth works for Rex Feeds.
The fire department will host an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
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