Woman Detective Grace Legay Breaks Stereotypes in New York
Grace Legay, a grandmother with auburn hair and blue eyes, is New Yorks only woman hotel detective. She believes prevention over heroics and spends days cruising hotel corridors and elevators, alerting staff and police when needed. Her work blends hotel protection with private detective duties alongside her mother.
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New York
Grace Marie Legay
Commodore
Walter Clancy
House
Penn Station
Firefly Hunt Sparks Parents in Oak Ridge
In Oak Ridge Tennessee mothers protest as local children embark on a 25 cent per hundred firefly collection to sell to Dr Bernard L Strehler formerly of Johns Hopkins. He plans to study firefly tail lights and energy. Volunteers collect bug shipments and refrigerators fill up as the plan unfolds.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Bernard L. Strehler
Strehler
John Hopkins University
Woman Granted Last Wish To Die in Freedom
FLINT Mich Mrs Minnie Lambert 61 dying of cancer heart disease and asthma won a last wish to die outside prison walls Gov G Mennen Williams freed her to die in Flint where she could not travel to Manistee her husband killer died in prison six years ago Lambert and her brother in law pleaded guilty to murder and received life sentences
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Flint
Mich
Minnie Lambert
G. Mennen Williams
Manistee
Lambert
Superflies Resist Mighty DDT
In Corvallis Oregon entomologist A W Lindquist of Oregon State College reports a new superfly race that evolved 14 to 58 generations ago showing 150 to 250 times more resistance to DDT than ordinary house flies. The study uses radioactive DDT and a Geiger counter to measure absorption as part of developing a stronger insecticide.
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Corvallis
Ore
A. W. Lindquist
Oregon State College
Lindquist
Child’s Legs Broken Twenty Two Times May Walk Again
Marilyn Kay Howard a 13 year old from Chicago has osteogenesis imperfecta a rare bone condition. After 22 leg fractures since age two and surgery that inserted stainless steel rods her legs are healing and doctors say she may walk again with future rod removal depending on puberty growth.
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Chicago
Marilyn Kay Howard
Marilyn
Illinois Research Hospital
Guerrilla War Supposed in Caucasus Claims by Soviet Defector
Soviet defector Sgt Mikhail Kuratsyev says Chechen and Ingush survivors, deported to Siberia in 1944, are waging guerrilla warfare in the Caucasus mountains. He reports their persistence near the former Chechen-Ingush region and describes them as proud, independent people opposing central authority.
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Berlin
Mikhail Kuratsyev
Russia
Caucasus
Kuratsyev
Siberia
Couple Builds Dream House On Wrong Property
In Chicago Mr and Mrs Ronald Ciszek built a home planned for lots 25 and 26 in North Elmhurst but it occupied lots 22 and 23 about 75 feet off. After selling the mislocated lots and borrowing funds to pay 1600 dollars to the rightful owners they sued the surveyor for errors.
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Chicago
Ronald Ciszek
North Elmhurst
Kes
Let Em Fish It Readers Invited to Pond
Young readers urged to fish at local ponds with owners’ consent. Article promotes youth groups, conservation lessons, and safe, wholesome recreation. Mentions Ephemeris 1950 and snowy owls as wildlife notes.
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H. F.F.A
F.H.A
OSAA Estimates Duck Kill Across Flyways
The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates the legal duck kill for the United States at 18.5 million based on bag checks and hunter contacts. Of the total, the Pacific flyway accounts for 21 percent of hunters and 23 percent of the kill, the Central flyway 24 percent of hunters and 18 percent of the kill, and the Mississippi flyway 42 percent of hunters and 46 percent of the kill.
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United States
Fish and Wildlife Service
Pacific
Central
Mississippi
Reading skills and health talk from experts
Lawrence Gould notes privacy in health discussions and warns against sharing aches. Psychology researchers report many aged care residents show childish interpretations as mental powers decline. Dr Betts endorses balanced reading with skimming and rapid reading to grasp meaning and organize ideas.
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Wayne Dennis
Betty Mallinger
Homes For the
Emmett Albert Betts
Temple University Reading Clinic
Philadelphia
Keeping Healthy Adding to the Working Life Span
The article discusses rising life expectancy from 47 to 66 and a growing elderly population. It notes no gains in working life span, with industry not extending elderly workers’ capacity. Dr. Clague calls for extending working life via community action and suitable employment opportunities.
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Journal of Gerontology
E. C. Clague
Clague
Health Notes and Medical Observations
The notes discuss the cost of supervised group games in civic grounds and the high dividends of such investments. They cover early ambulation after various surgeries and note changes in accident-prone drivers after six months. They also mention infants preferring to sleep on their faces with knees drawn up and state unilateral prefrontal lobotomy as an acceptable relief for intractable pain.
Sewing Circle Patterns For Women and Girls
Adds details on Pattern No 8613 for sizes 14 through 46 with yoked dress and shirtwaist features. Also notes Pattern No 8612 for children's dresses, sizing 4 to 12 years, with fabric yardage and a fall winter styling booklet sold separately.
Prince Philip Named To Command Anti Aircraft Frigate
Princess Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, 29, wins first naval command and will lead the anti-aircraft frigate Magpie in August. He is currently first lieutenant of the destroyer Chequers at Malta, with Magpie a 1,430 ton ship crewed by six officers and 186 men, mounting four six inch guns eight two pounders and pompon AA guns.
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Princess Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Admiralty
Philip
Chequers
Malta
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Georgia
OSAA
Lawrence Gould
James
James W. Barton
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells
Audrey Bockmann
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