Ann Landers letters spark reader backlash on alcoholism wives
A reader defends wives of alcoholics while Ann Landers apologizes for an earlier broadside accusing such spouses of martyrdom and seeking saints. The exchange includes a divorced woman sharing her escape from an alcoholic husband and a neighbor’s insistence on polite manners, prompting guidance from Landers and a request for readership letters.
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Ann Landers
TV show sparks couples study on smoking and romance
In a Pittsburgh broadcast, Dr Crane discusses how cigarette use and liquor affect dating and marriage. He argues most men prefer non smokers, that smoking signals easy seduction, and offers advice to women to quit tobacco and alcohol to revive romance. He promotes his booklet How to Break the Tobacco and Liquor Habits.
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Marie Torre
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Heloise tips for practical home fixes shared
Readers offer simple, hands on advice from flower frog workarounds with drinking straws to make stems fit. Teething bottle tips, ironing handkerchief flattening, kneeling pads from crushed plastic, laundry organization and embroidery hoop hacks are included with readers asking for more guidance.
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Roger J. Winiamred
Charlotte Stacas
Goren on bridge ends West overheart endplay tale
Goren analyzes a 1942 Chicago Tribune bridge column where South, after a takeout double and three rounds of trumps, concludes a four heart contract with careful endplays. West’s distribution and cautious defense set up South to force a final humbling discard and clinch the game with a diamond sequence and a spade ruff.
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Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed in Jumble
Puzzle clues mix across entries including doorway post discotheme Afrikaans and Russian city hints with scattered abbreviations and partial phrases. Reads like a garbled old puzzle page with multiple thematic and language clues interwoven and incomplete.
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Ben Ache
Wonede
Fragmentary Local Note From Unreadable Text
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a seaside scene with a shell and shore imagery near a place called GME. The readable parts suggest a coastal setting with weathered elements but no clear events, dates, or names.
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