Appalachian Folk Festival Keeps Mountain Dance Alive
Bascom Lunsford fostered the Asheville festival that preserves Appalachian songs and dances. Farmers, schoolchildren, and workers perform in informal, community-led square dances with a lively caller guiding rapid figures. The event draws servicemen, draws thousands, and boosts interest in traditional ballads and regional culture.
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England
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
A reader asks how to handle an embarrassing social moment when guests arrive during dinner time. The columnist suggests offering tea suffices and encourages polite invitation without pressuring for a meal.
Weeks hints at secret weapons for enemy threat
Sir Ronald Weeks spoke at an army exhibition in Wales and said Britain still has secret weapons in reserve to deter the enemy though he did not detail them.
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Waskow
The Rambling Rhymster Exhortation On Persistence And Hope
LES PLETTNER opens with a meditation on looking for obstacles. He argues progress comes by starting despite doubt and fear. Great names in history reached goals through storms and adversity, not by dwelling on what cannot be done.
Extracurricular Tricks in School Fun and Fundraising
A tongue in cheek guide from a newspaper column suggesting playful schemes at school. Patriotic Pin Ups raise War Stamp funds with 10 cent entries and hidden voter counts. Littered With Letters advises buying plastic initials to spell school letters on attire in colors.
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Be authentic or risk dulling dates with vanity
The text playfully urges against oversharing fame and vanity on dates. It compares bragging to blowing one’s own horn and warns that such behavior can erase charm rather than attract interest. The tone mimics advice columns from a vintage newspaper.
New Gas Tabs Durable Paper Seal Counterfeiting Fight
The Office of Price Administration announces new basic A gasoline ration books printed on government safety paper nearly impossible to counterfeit. The books are in use now with coupons worth four gallons, up from three, but will retain the same overall four gallon ration.
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War memories and portraits from Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin
Ernie Pyle honors Captain Henry T. Waskow of Belton Texas, killed on a mule trail in Italy, recounting soldiers' grief and respect. He profiles Bill Mauldin, praising the grim realism of his wartime cartoons and noting Mauldin's rise from infantryman to Stars and Stripes artist with the 45th division.
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Stars and Stripes
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Mauldin Sall Just a Kid
A wartime profile notes Mauldin Sall as a young husband and father who wed in 1942 in Texas and has a son born August 20 in Sicily. His wife and child live in Phoenix and he keeps their photos. He plans postwar cartoons of soldiers in civilian life.
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Proficient Knockers and the Curious Demands of Critique
The piece argues criticism does not require high intelligence or effort. It notes many lazy people excel as fault-finders and alarmists, while truly active individuals are lenient since they have no time to dwell on flaws.
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Lunsford
Soco Gap Group
Sam Queen
Columbia University
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