Numbers game and the author’s guarded optimism
An excerpt from First You Cry by Jillian Rollin recounts a sheltered, successful life in publishing and NBC News, marked by confidence and fearlessness. The narrator reflects on distant global harms, then acknowledges how personal danger finally touched her, Yet she remains introspective about luck, fate, and vulnerability.
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Doubleday
Seessures
Vogue
Zipok
Stair
NBC News
Worry as a Problem in a Breast Cancer Fear Scenario
A narrator reflects on avoiding worry about a breast cancer risk, noting nine in ten benign outcomes and no family history. The scene shifts to Arthur awaiting a doctor visit in a Fifth Avenue office, where emotional role playing emerges as they enter Dr. Singermann’s dark, leathery lobby.
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Arthur
Dr. Singermann
Mr. Singermann
Singermann
Smith
Ellby
Singermaan
Lkely
Abigail Christmas Home Tour In Long Beach Estates
Abigail scheduled a December 18 to 14 tour by Abigails an auxiliary of Long Beach Community Playhouse to showcase three Timor Street homes in El Perot Park Estates with elaborate holiday displays. Proceeds support the playhouse. Highlights include an imported Italian and Spanish creche, a gold ornamented tree scene, umbrella trees by Mrs. Onida Jackson Hamilton at 7815 Timor St, a boutique and food booth, and Bell Starr Sugar Candy with a historic recipe. Admission is $2 with prizes and refreshments for guests.
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Nec
Abigails
Long Beach
Onida Jackson Hamilton
Hamilton
Timor S
New York City
Weddings and Honeymoons Across Long Beach Area
Read of multiple ceremonies as couples wed in Long Beach and nearby cities. Lamm Wascavage marriage at St Col. Hospitalis Church with attendants from Torrance and Long Beach. Dawley Bigham union in First Lutheran Church. Manning ceremony at Lakewood Community Church. Honeymoons to Wall, Mammoth Lakes, and South Pasadena. graduates and careers noted.
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Jnhtice Wascavage
Wizard of Borer
St. Col. Hiplis Catholic Church
Spott McClintock
South Pasadena
Difford Dwayne Dawley
Ventura
First Lutheran Church of
Long Beach
Christmas club calendar events and parties around Long Beach
Numerous holiday gatherings listed by local organizations. Secretaries Association Reach Chapter hosts a 6:30 p.m. dinner at Golden Sails Inn with $6.75 reservations to Bettie Crowell. Jubilee Chapter ABWA meets 7:30 p.m. at Sierra Restaurant Bellflower with white elephant sale items. Long Beach AARP hosts 1:30 p.m. program at Lafayette Hotel with Christmas music. La Leche League meets in Cerritos to discuss Arrival of Baby Breasted Baby. Cypress Christian Women's Club and other groups announce card parties, desserts, and concerts featuring local performers and guest speakers. Reservations and details available through listed contacts.
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National Secretaries Association
Reach
Golden Sails Inn
Chorale Madrigal Singers
Bettie Crowell
Wilton St
American Business Women's Association
Sierra Restaurant
Lakewood Blvd
Bellflower
Marion Keener
Bob Armstrong
Jan Lydon
Long Beach
American Association of Retired Persons
Lafayette Hotel
Linden Ave
Gertrude Thompson
al Chiswell
LA Leche League
Sutton
Cerritos
Cedar Ave
Claretian Guild
Machinists Hall
Elm Ave. Bridee
Canasta
Maria Yonkers
Brother Salvatore
Woman’s Music Club
Ebell
Cerritos Ave
Katharine Langdon
Patricia Woods
Mim Mulford
Regina Tuck
Esther Thompson
Naorai Lovett
Wallace R. Herrewigs
Mimmi Blakesley
Cypress Christian Women's Club
Lakewood
Carpenters celebrate 50th wedding anniversary in Garden Grove
Mr and Mrs Herbert H Carpenter of Lakewood marked their 50th wedding anniversary with a buffet and reception at Garden Grove Meeting Center founders room. They wed November 26 128 in Peoria D1 and have lived in Southern California 48 years with eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Their daughters Mrs Wilburt Feiner Garden Grove and Mrs Melvin Reck Hacienda Heights assisted. Mr Carpenter retired in 1970 after 32 years with REA Express Agency in Long Beach.
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Herert H. Carpenter
Lakewood
Founders Room
Garden Grove Meeting Center
Peoria
California
Carpenters
Wilburt Feiner
Garden Grove
Melvin BE
Reck
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Iatty Rollin
J.B. Lippincott Co
Betty Rollin
Forease
Vietnam
Harlem
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Heae
Matt
Gerald Iovine
Timor St
Laurella Daggett
Wilda Lewis
Elsie Skaggs
Elaine Schuck
Toni McDowell
Steve Dergo
Woody Hendrick
Altopet
Ouida Hamilton
Abigail
Kent Henderson
Ite Lamm-Wascavage
Mapatlan
Mexico
Bir
Wes Donald D. Lamm
Cypthia Wascavage
Cerri- Log
Jesse L. Lamm
Torrance
North Torrance
LBSU
International City Management Association
American Society For Public Administration
Neil Dettmer
James Richard Bigham
Lancaster
Clinton H. Dawley
Hollis F. Dawley
Wall
Dale
Dawley
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Hishand
Sigma Chapter
Skema Phi Delta Fraternity
Lakewood Community Church
Susan Gayle
Frederick Lloyd Manning
Adele A. Gomm
Victor J. Gomm
Lake Isabella
Werner Kuttig
Robert Sutton
Fred Manning
Waterloo
Canada
Manning
Wilson High School
Long Beach City College
Cypress
Mammoth Lakes
Frieda
Pioneer Women of
Orange County
Mercury Savings and Loan
Valley View
Buena Park
Mrs
Donald Lamm
Cyprian’s Guild
Izora Brandt
William H. Reed
Richard LeRossignol
Gladys Ceaffrey
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