Lady in a Jam name origins linked to wartime theater scene
Local theater chatter traces the nickname Lady in a Jam to a line spoken by soldiers during Irene Dunne and Patric Knowles film work at Williams field near Chandler Arizona. The anecdote ties to Lieut G K Wodtke and family and recalls a brassbound era of home front humor and serviceman life.
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G. K. Wodtke
G. M. Wodtkes
Crescent Street
Back To College Rush In Cedar Rapids Area
As Labor Day ends Cedar Rapids youths prepare for college staffed by Iowa State Ames and multiple eastern schools. Students head to Ward Belmont Shipley Shattuck Carleton Brown Northwestern and other campuses for registration and classwork while some remain near home for Iowa institutions.
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Miss Sylvia Hardy Engaged to Ensign James Trewin
Herbert A. Hardy of Beresford South Dakota announces the engagement of daughter Sylvia Hardy to Ensign James Arthur Trewin son of Mr and Mrs Harold R Trewin 1950 Fourth Avenue SE No wedding date set The bride elect is a 1941 Iowa State College graduate affiliated with Gamma Phi Beta She was treasurer and vice president of the Women's Athletic Association and treasurer of Phi Upsilon Omicron She is employed as merchandiser at Montgomery Ward Chicago Ensign Trewin earned a 1940 BS in Mathematics from Iowa State College and was senior manager of the swimming team He later earned an MBA from Wharton in 1942 and is in the naval reserves supply corps attending Harvard Business School in Cambridge Massachusetts
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Harold R. Trewin
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Montgomery Ward and Company
Chicago
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Iowa State Tlege
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Penn Wharton School of Finance
Philadelphia
Supply Corps
Naval Reserves
Naval Supply School
Harvard School of Business
Cambridge
Mass
Miss McLeod and Mr Newberry wed at St Pauls
Miss Dorothy Ann McLeod and F Devere Newberry were married Saturday afternoon at St Pauls Methodist Church. The ceremony featured Miss Mary Ellen McLeod as maid of honor and bridesmaids Miss Carol McLeod and Miss Zoe Shipton. George Stone of Chicago served as best man with ushers Richard Pugh and a McLeod. The couple received guests at a church parlor reception with a three tier cake and floral decor.
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R. W. McLeod
Vernon Road
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O. D. Newberry
Washington Avenue SE
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Mary Ellen McLeod
Carol McLeod
Zoe Shipton
George Stone
Chicago
Richard Pugh
Williamsburg
Ae McLeod
Mr Bennett to wed Miss Norton in Springfield ceremony
Mrs Norton plans a Springfield Mass wedding for Eleanor Maralee Norton to Bennett Gardner Magedoes Seoukas Gowan Md. The couple will wed with a reception at the church Guild room and a Martha's Vineyard honeymoon. Attendants include Doris Walker maid of honor and bridesmaids Christine Ritchie Carolyn Walton Pearl Rhodes Elizabeth Patten. Bennett is a second lieutenant and a Westinghouse chemist's son with guests from Cedar Rapids Boston Brooklyn and Amherst.
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Horatio Gates Norton
Eee See
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Magedoes Seoukas Gowan
Harris Holt Bennett
Blake Boulevard
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Doris Walker
Christine Ritchie
Boston
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Brooklyn
N. Y
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Leyden
Elizabeth Patten
Sterling
Bennett
Robert D. Walker
Chester L. Thorndike, Jr
Roland Holmes
David Thompson
Martha’s Vineyard Island
Cape Cod
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Sield
Westingouse
East Sield
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Iowa State College
Becomes Bride of Lieut. Mercer in Coronado
Dr and Mrs G A Kay of Dallas announce Miss Barbara Louise Rogers and Lieut Melville Mercer wed on September 1 at Coronado. Rogers a Cedar Rapids native tied to S M U sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mercer SMU graduate in Kappa Alpha and air corps member.
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Dallas
Texas
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Melville
Coronado
Cedar Rapids
Franklin High School
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Lieut
Mercer
Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Air Corps
Summer Picnic Closes Cedar Rapids Country Club Season
A Cedar Rapids Country Club picnic marked the end of summer with bonfires, games, and group singing Saturday evening. Several Dutch treat groups formed among members including families and visitors from Iowa City, Waterloo, Louisville and New York, sharing meals and socializing on and around the fifteenth hole.
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Cedar Rapids
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Patricia Salter
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Dorothy Miller
Jeanne Marshall
James Coquillette
Scotty Swisher
Iowa City
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Dick Brecunier
Waterloo
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Roy E. Choate
Charles A. Spears
Charles Spears, Jr
Louisville
Harold N. Graves
Harlan R. Amen
E. Beattie
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Howard Green
Frank Byers
Kenneth Lindsay
Carl Jordan
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Herbert Stamats
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New York City
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Ralph Leo Receives Praise In Major Papers
The Chicago Tribune lauds Mr. Lee as a model of English diction in song. Chas. E. Watt notes superior enunciation in Chicago. The New York American calls Ralph Leo recital an artistic success while the Boston Post reports an ovation. Leo sang Gurnemanz in Parsifal with Metropolitan Opera performers Arthur Middleton and Marie Rappold and later partnered with Middleton in The Age of Five with accompanists from the orchestra. He plans to award scholarships to a worthy high school baritone and soprano.
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