Reading Cedar Rapids Press Picks
Elizabeth North Hoyt reviews The Young Matriarch by G B Stern and Mother Finds a Body by Gypsy Rose Lee. She highlights Stern’s Raconitz saga with Babette and family detail, noting vivid character work and wartime scenes, while poking at Lee’s whodunit tone with playful fan correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Stern
Simon Raconitz
Babette Weinberg
Raconitz
Nette la Bague
Dietrich
Annette
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Gypsy Rose Lee
Simon and Schuster
How to Get Ahead in a Defense Plant review
Hawthorne's How to Get Ahead in a Defense Plant is praised as a plain language guide for factory work in defense plants. The author recounts writing notes into a book to help lay readers understand instrumentation and metal compounds with clear drawings by Herbert Parsons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Simon and Schuster
Milo
Mile
Ysleta
Tex
Love
John
Johnny
Kenneth C. Hawthorne
Thomas Y. Crowell
Lana Turner
Mr. Hawthorne
Seth Thomas Cluck Company
Thomaston
Conn
Seth Thomas Company
Hawthorne
Herbert Parsons
Seth Thomas
Dorothy Jackson
Lester Jackson
Linden Drive
Cedar Rapids
Robins
Kenneth
Northfield Brook
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Bernice Easker Weds Lieut Jesse W Smith at Fort Belvoir
Bernice Easker, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles L Easker, wed Lieut Jesse W Smith of Fort Belvoir Va in a military ceremony on October 4 at Fort Belvoir Chapel with Chaplain Ashburn presiding. Best man Lieut James Wescott and attendant Miss Genevieve Hurley joined guests at a dinner in Alexandria then a wedding trip to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Easker
Hamilton Street
Bernice
Jesse W. Smith
Fort Belvoir
Ashburn
Corp
Joe Ashburn
Botany
Genevieve Hurley
Washington, DC
James Wescott
Smith
Mt. Vernon, A
Gail Kivell and Harry Grove Married in Aurora Ceremony
Gail Lorens Kivell daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles H Kivell of Aurora Iowa wed Harry L Grove son of Mr and Mrs Homer Grove. The Kenwood Park Methodist church ceremony featured palms and yellow white chrysanthemums with Rev Merton Green officiating. The couple plans home at 1260 Third Avenue SE and Mr Grove attends officer training at Lowry Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gail Lorens Kivell
Charles H. Kivell
Aurora
Harry L. Grove
Homer Grove
Thirty-third Street
Kenwood Park Methodist Church
Merton Green
Belle Richards
Waterloo
Harry Emerson
Ferne Kivell
Lowry Field
Denver, Colo
Mrs Mulqueen Attends National Convention in Detroit
Mrs Lucy Simpson Mulqueen director of the Community Nutrition Center sails to Detroit Michigan for the American Dietetics Association National Convention October 19 to 22. She will present Use of the Non Home Economics Train Volunteers in Nutrition Education Activities and host a round table with leaders from the Red Cross state health Oklahoma and Connecticut nutrition councils. College club meets Saturday 2 15 pm at Miss Lulu Averill’s home with guest speaker W J Sinclair Thompson a Coe College graduate and former teacher in Thailand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Dietelics Association
Detroit
Mich
Lucy Simpson Mulqueen
Second Avenue
Mulqueen
Catherine M. Leamy
Nutrition Service
American Red Cross
Maxine Turner
State Health Department of
Oklahoma
Margaret A Kennedy
Waterbury Nutrition Council
Connecticut
Gladys Hills
Greenwich Tuberculosis Association
College Club
Lulu Averill
Second Avenue SE
W J. Sinclair Thompson
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Chicago
Thompson
Aplington
Coe College
Coe
Phi Sigma _ Iota
Kappa Phi, Chi
Mens Educational Society
Thailand
Gripsholm
Republican Club To Meet Tuesday And P E O Monday
The Woman's Republican club of Linn county meets Tuesday afternoon at the Montrose hotel with a 12:30 mezzanine business session and 2 p.m. board meeting. David Melderkin to address and a voting machine demonstration scheduled. Dutch treat luncheon in the Java room available by reservation. Kiwanis Ladies plan first fall meeting October 28 with Thanksgiving basket plans to be arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babette
Babs
David
France
England
Italy
Hollywood
Woman’s Republican Club of
Linn County
Montrose
David Melderkin
Republican County
Harry J. Manchester
Kiwanis
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Ecient
Elizabeth Chevalier
Bernadette
Franz Werfel
Nancy Hale
Cup
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Cyril Harris
Hartzell Spence
Berlin
Howard K. Smith
Hoover
Gibson
Hargrove
Private Hargrove
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Germany
William Ziff
Macmillan
Babette Goddard
Anastasia
Miss Stern
London
Mme. An
Co. R. Symphony Board
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Board
A. Otto Ambroz
Dows Building
Alpha Gamma Delta Mothers Club
J. L. Coon
Bover Avenue
IRS
Ames
Sanford
Yowa
Montieur Studio
First Ave. E
Roosevelt
Miss Jennings
Drew
Frank J. Jennings
Grande Avenue SE
Mary Catherine Jennings
Harold Espe Drew, Jr
Harold Espe Drew
Orange
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy
N. Y
Theta Chi
Minneapolis
Minn
Naval Inspector of Ordnance
Bernice Easker
Mrs. Altfillisch
Bellevue
John W. Altfillisch
Nineteenth Street
Dempsey’s
Oscar Workman
Dempsey
DIAL
Gail Kivell
Harry Grove
Versity of Iowa
Cedar Rapids Business College
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Mr. Grove
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Newman
Salon
Mother Hubbards
P.E.O
Republican Club
Third Avenue
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