Poor Man's Philosopher Miss America-More Than Beauty
Hal Boyle notes Miss America contestants face a demanding mix of talent personality and intelligence in a pageant that rivals the Kentucky Derby in required attributes. West Coast and Southern hopefuls like Miss Wyoming Miss Arkansas and Miss Montana showcase diverse skills from singing painting and directing religious education to fencing or ropework.
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Barbizon School of Modeling
University of Wyoming
Montana
Nevada
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University of Arkansas
Statism shifts meaning in modern political discourse
Dewitt Mackenzie notes the term statism now carries two definitions in use. He cites Webster and Funk and Wagnalls with examples from Washington and Columbia University president Eisenhower. He warns that context decides meaning and observes how other terms like Fascist and liberal shift with time.
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Washington
Columbia University
Eisenhower
Dictionary Department of
Funk and Wagnalls
New York
Moscow
Nat the two year old race horse wins easily at Haydock Park
Nat the two year old British race horse often swallows his tongue in races. His trainer R Ward tied Nat s tongue down and Nat won easily at Haydock Park. Also mentions asking friends about the number seven and you. Sheep breed Rough Fells to be exported from Britain to the United States per London report.
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Haydock Park
Britain
United States
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Haskin Service Answers From The La Crosse Tribune
Readers send questions to The Haskin Service and receive concise factual answers. Topics include geography, geology, zoology, history, and notable curiosities, with details on rivers, coal color, largest zoos, carnotite uranium, flea jumping, and the Wakefield Virginia mansion.
Protect highways to save human lives say readers
A reader argues for stricter highway rules to reduce traffic deaths. Proposes grounding heavy trucks on Sundays and holidays unless carrying perishables, and making no passing zones enforceable with license revocation and plate removal for a year. cites red X accident sites to justify harsher penalties.
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Tribune
Slavs Seek Aussie Romance Amid Language Glitches
Visiting Yugoslav soccer players tour Melbourne and praise Australian girls as beautiful and well dressed. They say they have beer in many countries. The single players struggle with English but remain hopeful about romance despite the language barrier.
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Melbourne
Old Restraint Devices Shown on TV Exhibit
Chicago broadcasts a Peoria hospital exhibit of tools once used to restrain the violent insane. Dr. Richard Graff collected items from mental institution cellars for WGN-TV with Illinois State Medical Society backing. Objects include straight jacket Utica crib leather muff bed saddle anklet and related restraints.
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Illinois
Richard Graff
Peoria State Hospital
Wgn-Tv
Illinois State Medical Society
Portrait of Danny Kay Sparks Glasgow Girl's Gift
Irene Gilmour then fourteen from Glasgow sent a painted portrait to Danny Kaye with a note seeking his opinion. Kaye replied encouraging her to persevere and aim for oil painting, noting the joke about "no oil" as a Scottish comment explaining the line.
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Britain
Irene Gilmour
Glasgow
Scotland
E Straner
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