New Year Festivities Echo Colonial Open House Customs
Daylight celebrations marked America's New Year with dancing and feasting. Nighttime travel and precarious roads limited hosting unless guests could stay overnight. In cities January dining peaked. Dutch New Year customs and Washington era open house practices shaped social greetings through time.
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Dancing in Early America Sparks Social Debate and Fashion
Clark Kinnaird notes that colonists and later Americans enjoyed dancing as a popular leisure activity. Virginia assemblies featured peculiar dancing scenes described by Rev. Andrew Burnaby, with partners changing in a playful courtship. Jefferson hosted violin performances for dancing while New England resisted public dancing, even as Tremont House in Boston opened a ballroom to set fashion.
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TV Highlights and Evening Schedule Listings
Listings show blue grey game at 1:00 p m in Cramton Bowl Montgomery Missouri plays Alabama at 1 30 p m then Sun Bowl with Arizona vs Auburn at 3 45 p m. 1968 year in review at 6 00 p m on WICU TV. Adam 12 My Three Sons Saturday Night Movie Pocketful of Miracles Hollywood Palace Mannix Weirdo Maze air from 7 30 p m to 10 15 p m with various stars and acts through late evening.
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Diamonds lead and misdefense in contract bridge example
In this Becker column a hand shows East misdefends after North opens with diamonds. West leads seven diamonds, East discards heart or spade, West misreads signals, and declarer makes nine tricks for 800 instead of 200. East should discard queen of diamonds earlier to clarify the suit.
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Test Your Code Breaking Ability Daily Cryptoquote
A cryptogram quotation challenges readers to decode a substitution puzzle using hints from letter counts and word shapes. The daily quote features a maxim about misery, love, and world conditions, with the editor’s notes referencing past quotes and misers.
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Crossword by Eugene Sheffer Horizontal and Vertical clues mixed
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