New Year Celebrations Around Europe and Beyond
The article outlines how nations greet the new year with diverse customs. England honors the king’s list while France Germany USA share carnival atmospheres in cities like Paris. Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria, Greece coin baked cake, Sweden officials sign a royal book, and Bulgarians build bonfires and announce promotions.
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England
France
Germany
United States
Paris
Poland
Lithuania
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Bulgaria
Sweden
New Year’s Joy Among Scotch Traditions
The Scotch greet the New Year with restrained enthusiasm and festive wassail. Apples float in the bowl evoking apple howling memories of fruit tree pranks. The lamb’s wool decoration recalls youths rushing to the spring at midnight to drink luck bringing cream of the well. Monday after New Year’s is the big day for local scotch boys and girls.
Clock watcher and the year from 1919 to 1950
The piece reflects on New Year expectations with a joke about how the 1919 idea leads to 1950, noting that the passage of time rarely changes personal celebrations. It preserves a playful historic voice and a light touch about time.
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Hollywood
Feasting Holds Important Place in Holiday Rites
The article notes feasting as a key part of New Year observances both at home and abroad. It cites the American in England on New Year's Day enjoying turkey duck or goose as the main dish with the plum pudding marking a difference from American celebrations.
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England
New Year History Across Ages and Cultures
The article traces how New Year's Day has varied historically among peoples from the Persians and Egyptians choosing September 22 to the Greeks at December 21. It notes the Jews using March 22 at the vernal equinox and Pope Gregory's calendar reform leading to January 1 as the common start of the year. It cites Europe’s March 25 tradition and Britain's 1752 adoption. It highlights the enduring joyful theme of New Year customs and few tears at year’s end.
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Gregory
Europe
Working 52 Days a Year U S Holiday Pattern
The piece argues Americans have 52 working days annually after excluding Sundays and legal holidays. It notes the U S lacks a national holiday and that holidays are set by state laws and presidential proclamations. It contrasts January 1 celebrations globally with exceptions in Britain Ireland Wales Hejaz and China.
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United States
Founding Fathers Embrace New Year Spirit Across Eras
Colonial era celebrations set a vigorous tone for New Year’s Day and the founding fathers participated enthusiastically. The tradition has persisted from colonial times to today, marking the day as significant in American life.
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United States
America
Hope Diamond Shooter Baffles Bronx Pool Players
A famed marble, the Hope Diamond shooter, passes through a chaotic tournament among Bronx kids. Originating with players from Chepachet and winding through Irv Sondergaard and Whitey Wizcoczki, the hexed shooter tests luck, loyalty, and superstition until a nursemaid and a hospital intern reclaim it for the boy who broke his ribs.
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Irv Sondergaard
Whitey Wizcoczki
Harlem
Harry Winston
Hope
Harry
Wizcoczki
Hymie Michernick
Riverdale
Albert
Jackie
Michernick
I Sheltered Many a Care Poem Moment of Loss
A speaker recalls sheltering many cares close to the heart until a roadside respite brings a shining note, shade, flower, and dew. The moment renews strength yet when the source of solace returns, the cares have vanished and cannot be found.
The Man Called Pancho Ortegna Head Hunter
A narrator recalls meeting Pancho Ortegna the head hunter in Cano a few summers ago. In Cabello's saloon a calm, unreadable figure draws attention while Juan explains the feared practice of head hunting and a gift shop exhibit offering a shrunk human head for sale.
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Juan
Ecuadorian heads and shrinking mystery entraps scientist
The text describes Pancho Ortegna, a scientist visiting Ecuadorian tribes to solve the head shrinking mystery. Government fines of 400 dollars are mentioned for possessing a head and locals reveal hostile dangers and disappearances as he travels from tribe to tribe seeking clues.
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Juan
Pancho Ortegna
Pancho
The Shrunken Head of Pancho Ortegna
The narrator recalls meeting Pancho Ortegna at Cabello's and later discovers not Pancho but the old man’s father, who visits daily. A second, chilling visit ends with the owner revealing an artifact that confirms Pancho Ortegna is dead, his head preserved.
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Cabello’s
Pancho Ortegna
Juan
Cabello
Pancho Orfegna
Truman
White House
Wally” Graham
CROSSWORD PUZZLE SOLUTION CLUES LISTING
The page presents a mixed list of Across and Down crossword clues with definitions and hints. Across includes items like instrument of torture and bright colored fish, while Down covers infrequent words and common terms across various categories.
Word Puzzle Clues From Last Week Answer Key
The list presents crossword style hints with entries such as last week's answer 35 kind of dog 36 not working 39 sees 42 entreaty 44 summon 46 fortify 47 twisted fabric 49 by way of using common synonyms and phrasing for a puzzle page.
John Dall Breaks Through in The Corn Is Green and Rope
John Dall made a hit in his first picture The Corn Is Green and in Rope, his big break, after years in stock theaters and Broadway walk-ons. He now has a sympathetic role in Deadly Is the Female for United Artists. He stands six feet one with brown hair and blue gray eyes. The public’s enthusiasm for Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing spurred Warner Bros. to plan another comedy with him.
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Ohn Dall
Alfred Hitchcock
Deadly
United Artists
Hollywood
Milton Berle
Warner Bros
Atomic race and Russian claims echo Cold War era chatter
A tongue in cheek summary notes Senator Ed Johnson on hydrogen bomb hopes and weapon science, reactor search for deeper atom knowledge, detection of Bikini radiation, and White House naps. It also mocks Soviet boasts of invented Russian contributions, claiming America’s discovery by 1684 and a storm-driven Deznev group reaching America.
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Ed Johnson
Colorado
United States
Hiroshima
Senator Johnson
Arkwright
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Glinkov
Moscow
Einstein
Lobachevsky
Ural Mountains
Rudolf Diesel
Comrade Grinefetsky
Germany
Kiev
Stolctov
Russia
America
Columbus
Deznev
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