Linda Bickle Wins Junior Fire Marshal Gold Medal
Thirteen year old Linda Bickle is celebrated as a hero for signaling neighbors and waking a sleeping family during a Lincoln fire. She helped rescue the youngest child and alerted authorities, earning the 1970 Junior Fire Marshal Gold Medal from The Hartford Insurance Group at the IAFC convention.
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Seattle
Wash
Wes Ulman
Linda Bickle
International Association of Fire Chiefs
Lincoln
Neb
Linda
Hartford Insurance Group
Federal Fire Council
Richard M. Nixon
Larry Casper
Hartford
Conn
Peggy Cass Sheds Pounds Sparks Fashion Reboot
Peggy Cass, facing 40, trims from size 16 to 8 with strict discipline and a Kennedy Clinic weight plan. She sheds 22 pounds in two months, embraces couture names, moves to an East Side duplex decorated by fashion-model designers, and balances Broadway success with daily fashion updates.
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New York
Peggy Cass
Cass
Mama Cass
Peggy
Kennedy Clinic
Claire Morrow
Norma Norell
Barbara Brown
Morrow-Brown
Donald Brooks
Rome
Patrick de Barentzen
Yves Saint Laurent
Peggy Cass Profile: From Barbizon to TV and Tears
Peggy Cass rises from Cambridge High to the Barbizon Hotel and Broadway rejections to become a TV presence. She recalls a windy path via Clark Gable and Jack Paar, a divorce after 15 years, and a public persona masking private sorrow. The piece highlights her fashion, eccentric style, and inner sadness contrasted with public wit.
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Kenneth Nolan
Andy Warhol
Peggy
Peggy-of-the
Cambridge High and Latin School
Boston
New York
Mama
Barbizon Hotel
Barbizon
Most Normal People Can Exercise Safely Says Dr Lamb
Lawrence E Lamb M D says nearly everyone can exercise safely unless a serious illness exists. Start with walking 15 minutes daily, then build up to 30 minutes and an hour. If you tire or have chest pain, pause and seek a medical exam before advancing to jogging or heavy cycling.
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Heirloom Walnut Ensemble From Arabesque of Traverse City
Arabesque of Traverse City Michigan presents a traditional wall grouping in walnut woodtone with a Corte di Napoleone mirror and Versailles console table. Fruit basket plaques flank the mirror as gilt detailing highlights the simulated wood replicas of hand carved originals.
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Arabesque
Traverse City
Mich
Versailles
Community Brings Wood To 110 Year Old Minnie Tucker
In Fairbanks Alaska residents and personnel from Ft Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base rushed to help Minnie Tucker after her winter supply of firewood vanished. The 110 year old Eskimo widow lives alone and relies on her stove for bread. She remembers her late husband Arthur Samuel Tucker who died in 1941 and says she looks to the sky each morning to see if Christ is coming to earth.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Minnie Tucker
Ft. Wainwright
Eielson Air Force Base
Christ
Arthur Samuel Tucker
Earth
Apple Doll Maker Preserves Pioneer Folk Art Heritage
Mia Waechter of Grand Island creates apple dolls from eating apples, a patient craft spanning 44 to 65 hours per doll. Her works, such as Mama Sadie and The Colonel, tell stories with removable costumes and props, reflecting a debated origin of this American folk craft.
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Niagara Falls Gazette
Grand Island, N.Y
Mia Waechter
Island
America
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Malcolm Starr
Bill Blass
Barbara Peck
Gwen Verdon
Greenwich Village
Vogue
Diana Vreeland
Paris Match
Plaza Suite
Womens News
Clark Gable
Gable
Jack Paar
Paar
Carl Fischer
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D
Dorthy Freestone
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Associated Press
Apple
Isabel Hobba
Mama Sadie
Sadie
Erie County
Carol Burnett
Ben
Cortland
Mother Nature
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