Questers Club Marks Twenty Third Anniversary Dinner
Questers Club of Decatur celebrated its 23rd anniversary with a May 15 dinner at the Lyons Hotel. Cohostesses were Miss Wanda Harris and Mrs Cecil McMillian. Members recalled early days, wartime projects, and the club’s role in local causes.
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Questers Club
Decatur
Lyons Hotel
Wanda Harris
Cecil McMillian
The
Questers
Claude Earwood
Earl Foster
Earwood
Local Painters Invited to Exhibit at Florence Show
Decatur area artists are invited by Mrs. A H Thompson to exhibit with the Sunday Painters Club at Rogers Hall Florence State College on Wednesday June 11 from 10 am to 5 30 pm. Artists must bring easels signs and display their own work with hours 10 am to 5 30 pm. 10 percent of sale price goes to the club. No admission charged for exhibitors or public view. For details call Mrs Donald R. Brown EV 3 4040.
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Sheffield
Decatur
A. H. Thompson
Rogers Hall
Florence State College
Florence
Sunday Painters Club
Donald R. Brown
Goren on Bridge Ends in Three No Trump Victory
South reaches three no trump after a cautious sequence. West leads spades, East wins ace and returns, declarer clears diamonds for nine tricks. East’s key defense targets the diamond suit and heart entry to stifle declarer, illustrating that in bridge penny-wise plays can cost the grand plan.
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South
North East
East
North
West
Declarer
James family to attend Baylor graduation in Texas
Mrs. Foster Pointer travels to Chattanooga to join Mrs. Edward James and Col. James who arrived from Germany to attend the graduation of Edward James Jr. at Baylor. The party will return to Decatur for a visit. New Jersey remains an industrial state with forests covering over 46 percent of its land.
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Foster Pointer
Chattanooga
Edward James
Col. James
Germany
Baylor
James
Edward Jr
Decatur
Pointers
New Jersey
Books Worth Reading Says A Book Speaks
A magazine article reviews five works: Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples fourth volume after Napoleonic defeat. Catherine Marshall’s To Live Again about rebuilding life after loss. Peter Freuchen’s Book of the Seven Seas blending myth and travel. Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders on advertising psychology. and Jean Kerr’s Please Don't Eat the Daisies offering humorous domestic life. The tone is promotional and evaluative.
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Catherine Marshall
Jean Kerr
London museum speaker to headline Fashion Press Week
James Laver of the Victoria and Albert Museum travels to New York to address the fashion press at Press Week in July. He will attend the Silk Association dinner on July 13 and stay about a week. The famed critic and author is noted for works on fashion and taste and recent stage and TV appearances.
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James Laver
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
America
International Silk Association USA
Eleanor Lambert
The
Silk Association
Mr. Laver
New York
Cole Porter
Gertrude Lawrence
C. B. Cochran
England
Liverpool
New College
Oxford
New
Personal notes on visits and travels from several families
Mrs. B. J. Hoppenjans, recently a surgical patient at St. Marys Rochester, is due home this week. Mrs. Patrick Sandlin and children Sherry and Patrick plan a Monday arrival in Birmingham from Colorado Springs to visit her parents and her mother in law. The Sherrods and their daughter will attend Sewanee graduation as Floyd Sherrod earns his B A degree. Mrs. W A Sullivan departed Nashville Saturday with friends for a European trip.
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B. J. Hoppenjans
St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn
Patrick Sandlin
Sherry
Patrick
Birmingham
Colorado Springs
H. F. Sherrod
Mr. Sandlin
Ther
P. H. Sandlin
Sherrods
University of the South
Sewanee
Floyd Sherrod
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Red Cross
Barwood
Morgan County Heart Association
Wallace Meadows
Helen Keller
Mable Pearce
Paul Bryan
A. F. Harris
Yancey Vaughan
Goren
Mar
H. Leon Reeves
Kurfeel
Elizabeth Tillery
Samuel Butler
Darwin
Winston Spencer Churchill
Fashion Press Week
Ishbel Ross
Jefferson Davis
Varian Davis
Confederacy
Varina
Hudson Strode
Lawrence Durrell
Milovan Djilas
Decatur Public Library
Digate
BBC
Brains Trust
Critics
Order of the British Empire
Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Literature
International Faculty of Arts
Ferry St
Twill & Poplin
Russell Chambray
Chandler’s
Arly
W. A. Sullivan
Nashville
Dca
Round Table
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