Lincoln State of the Union Verse Dec 1861
United Press International reports President Lincoln’s December 3 1861 State of the Union message to Congress. He notes Western Virginia’s Union control and coastal Union footholds at Hatteras and Port Royal, with Kentucky’s uncertain but pro Union stance and cautious slavery policy proposals, while hinting at looming Britain relations and labor versus capital debates.
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Merton T.akers
United Press International
Lincoln
Congress
Western
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Trent
Great Britain
James Mason
John Slidell
Britain
Union
Delaware
George P. Fischer
Jefferson Davis
Robert Barnwell Rhett
South Carolina
William H. Russell
London Times
South
Karl Marx
New Books Review Highlights Alamo Tragedy and Air Flight Saga
Walter Lord retells the Alamo siege with meticulous detail, portraying the Texans who chose death over surrender. Hy Sherman and Glenn D. Kittler chronicle the NC-4 seaplane flight’s daring in a tense adventure tale. MacKinlay Kantor’s Spirit Lake uses a 1857 Iowa massacre to frame a sprawling western epic.
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Triumph
Hy Steirman
Glenn D. Kittler
Harper
U.S. Navy
Spirit Lake
MacKinlay Kantor
America
Great Plains
Iowa
Plains
Snirit- Okoboji Lakes
Kantor
Married by Type Asterisk Marks UT Freshman Directory
The Daily Texan notes freshman Sharon Kennedy faced an error in the new student directory when asterisked by her name to indicate she is married. A Tokyo memorial statue of Kannon rises 170 feet on Otsubo Yama, taller than the Statue of Liberty. Steve Forrest, star opposite Debra Reynolds in The Second Time Around, is an amateur winemaker building a wine cellar.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Daily
Texan
University of Texas
Sharon Kennedy
WAR Memorial
Tokyo
Kannon
Otsubo - Yama Hill
Chiba Prefecture
Hollywood
Steve Forrest
Debbie Reynolds
Festive Place Cards and Holiday Shopping Tips
Household hints describe making festive place cards from cups with green crepe paper and candy canes. Advice on Christmas shopping suggests comfortable shoe heights and using napkins for meals and protection from spills.
Bible publishers capture flavor of 18th century
New York based Cooper Square Publishers, run by Henry Chafetz and Sidney Solomon, produced a $300000 two volume facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, aiming to recreate 18th century publishing where booksellers were publishers. They sold nearly all 167 copies of the edition and expect high future value.
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New York
UPI
Henry Chafetz
Sidney Solomon
Cooper Square Publishers
Fourth Avenue
Greenwich Village
Cooper
Chafetz
Solomon
United States Library of Congress
Leipzig
Germany
Gutenberg
England
Triffids Signings Boost Sci Fi Drama Cast
Carole Ann Ford joins ups stage star in The Day of the Triffids produced by Phil Yordan. Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey co star as cities face destruction by sentient carnivorous plants.
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UPS
Carole Ann Ford
Philip Yordan
Howard Keel
Nicole Maurey
Carole
Mayjoy Refreshing New Feeling With Coca Cola
An advertisement claims a refreshing new feeling associated with Coca Cola and mentions it being bottled under authority of the Coca Cola Company. The fragment suggests a marketing slogan style from a period ad.
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Ve Coca-Cola Company
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Ward Caniel
Ralph Lane
Europe
Churchill
Gallipoli
Dardanelles
French Riviera
House of Commons
Hatteras
Port Royal Sound
Potomac
Chesapeake
Confederacy
Atlantic
Secretary of Treasury
Salmon P. Chase
Walter Lord
Alamo
San Antonio
Sam Houston
Lord
Pearl Harbor
The
Commission
Rogers
Norelco
China
Hargrave
By Claire Cox
Paducah
Coca-Cola Bottling and Ice Co
Paducah, Texas
Coca-Cola
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