Palm Springs Scene Sizzles With Sun and Sleek Glamour
Palm Springs basks in heat and luxury as capsules of Hollywood life mingle with desert chic. A burro ride operator, Tennis Ball cocktails, and a million-dollar hotel spark a vivid portrait of America’s favorite winter playground.
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Palm Springs
Nea
Casitas del Monte
America
Hollywood
Joe Stalin
Moscow
Santos
Pancho
Palm Palm Springs
Mrs. Pleasant
Ed Gardner
Romanoff
Warner Film Company
Joan Crawford
Russian Radio Hails Supposed Soviet Mining Progress
Reporters note a Moscow radio bulletin extolling Soviet mining prowess while condemning Welsh miners in Cardiff. The Kuznetsk basin miners celebrate moving into new homes with housewarming parties amid contrasting conditions.
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Moscow Radio
Cardiff
Wales
Kuznetsk
Octopus Found by Children Taken to Blackpool Aquarium
Children playing on Fleetwood beach found a small octopus in a pool. The creature, about the size of a large orange, was taken to the Blackpool aquarium for care.
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Fleetwood
England
Blackpool
Central High presents The Christmas Pageant Yuletide fest
Central high school's music department stages The Christmas Pageant a Yuletide concert at 7 45 p m in the Vocational auditorium. The 58 voice choir 55 piece orchestra over 250 performers including the Central boys and girls chorus of about 200 will perform a rich classical program with soloists Shirlee Sayner Richard Reinsvold James Garvalia Marilyn Standiford and more. Alvin Mikelson directs the program featuring Orchesis and pieces from Malin Warrell Genshaw Konitz McGarey Hamblin Saint-Saens Vel ska and Handel concluding with the Spirit of Christmas finale.
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la Crosse
Central High School
Central
Alvin Mikelson
Malin
Mendelssohn
Herald Angels
Reger
Konitz
McGarey
Orchesis
Norraine Byers
Carole Bottcher
Tschaikowsky
Edith Johnson
Central Junior
Saint-Saens
Velska
Guide For Draftees Veterans By Maj Thomas M Nial
Optimistic weekly note from Maj Nial on POW payments and NSLI dividends. Explains that only enemy captives receive POW camp day pay and outlines NSLI dividend procedures for beneficiaries, executors, and insured veterans. Includes reader questions from H G Youngsee and H G Pascagoula with VA procedures and timing. Editor invites letters to Maj Nial with self addressed envelope.
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Thomas M. Nial
York, Pa
War Claims Commission
Pascagoula
Miss
NSLI
Maj. Nial
Photographic Emulsion for Sun Study in Space Rockets
A photographic emulsion sensitive to far ultraviolet light could aid solar observation from rockets. The emulsion was designed to identify atoms or chemicals and analyze their radiant energies.
Bees Cause Garden Scandal For African Violets
Mrs. W. Wayne LaMar told Metropolitan African Violet club bees in her home crossed pollinating her 600 violet plants from basement to attic. She recalls pulling bloom stems to prevent unintended variety changes and fears new varieties may emerge.
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Washington
W. Wayne LaMar
Metropolitan
African Violet Club
Cactus Cuttings Barred by Sydney Customs Officers
Mrs Mabel Whitney and family fled wartime London taking a cactus cutting to New Zealand but customs officials in Sydney destroyed the plant as a noxious species. The piece notes the cactus invasion hurt Australian farming and grazing land.
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Sydney
Mabel Whitney
Wembley
London
Campus Theater May Spur On Stage Revival
The campus theater could revive stage arts as a less pressured venue for new plays and writers. Santa Barbara college official Theodore Hatlen notes colleges offer opportunity without heavy box office demands.
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Campus Theater
Santa Barbara
Calif
California
College and University Playhouse
Theodore Hatlen
Element of Speech
Santa Barbara College
Longfellow School Christmas Program Aims High
Longfellow school hosts a Christmas program in the auditorium Wednesday at 8 p m inviting the public. The event features the Longfellow choir, a Boys Treble choir, and the play The Littlest Angel with Leah Troyanek as reader. Music includes We Three Kings, O Light Divine, and Silent Night with soloists Ruth Runnestrand Sara Harris Nellie Mason Joyce Liersch Eddie Koblitz.
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Longfellow
A. D. Zimmerhak
Art Club
T. J. McDonald
Ruth Runnestrand
Sara Harris
Nellie Mason
E. M. Satrbak
Longfellow Choir
Aren
Jesus
Gewaert
Joyce Liersch
Eddie Koblitz
Adam
Boys Treble Choir
Noel
Eader
Leah Troyanek
Littlest Angel
Jimmie Ramaker
Three Angels
Mary Ann Weimar
Gloria Schmidt
Nancy Biom
Understanding Angel
Douglas Molzahn
Harold Brown
Jean Scullin
Death notices reveal unusual funeral requests by Hans Kindler
Washington concert conductor Hans Kindler in his will asked for minimal treatment by undertakers and explicit music choices for his funeral. He favored Haydn in C major and Bach chorales with a preferred group, the Musical Art String Quartet, which is no longer active.
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Washington
Hans Kindler
Washington Symphony Orchestra
Art String Quartet
New Lord Byron Prefers Sheep Farming to Poetry
Rupert Frederick George, 1st Lord Byron, heir after Rev Baron Byron's death in Britain, lives with Australian wife Pauline and daughter Ann on a 1200 acre sheep farm 191 miles from Perth. He shows no interest in poetry and owns only one book by Byron, which he forgets the name of.
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Lord Byron
Rupert Frederick George
Britain
Baron Byron
Lord
Pauline
Ann
Perth
Byron
Use of Atomic Furnaces to Detect Trace Elements
Atomic furnaces reveal tiny amounts of a chemical element in a material, capable of detecting about one part element in one hundred million parts of the sample.
Benjie and the Plum Pudding Lesson on Self Control
A mother warns children about nibbling and temptation through a Christmas plum pudding tale. Benjie steals bites, loses pleasure in pudding, and learns that self control preserves joy. A teen says she knows facts of life but not their consequences, urging sex education. Public notice copy invites readers to obtain Dr Patri’s leaflet and buy security bonds.
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Benjie
Natures
Patri
P. O
Station 6
New York 19
N. Y
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