Ginger Rogers Turns Designer With J C Penney Fashion Line
Ginger Rogers, famed for film dance partnership with Fred Astaire, enters fashion design as a consultant for J C Penney. She coordinated a 12 piece red white and blue travel unit, aims for flattering fit for all figures, and tours malls to gather feedback from shoppers.
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New York
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Miss Rogers
Paris
Ginger
J. C. Penney Co
Ginger Designs Own Clothes and Craftworks
Figures don’t have time to read she says she designs all her clothes even without sewing She chooses materials first then follows its guidance Painting sculpture and pottery fill her spare moments Her pottery skills aided her Mame London role gifting cups saucers and dishes to cast members She shows fall sleepwear sketches learned drawing here and urges others to try any pursuit.
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Ginger
London
Anniversary reception for Mr and Mrs Miskimen
Mr and Mrs Howard Miskimen celebrate 25 years with a Sunday reception from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Douglas County State Bank in Lawrence. They wed April 28, 1948, in Lawrence and reside at 302 Maine. No gifts requested.
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Howard Miskimen
Douglas County State Bank
Ninth
Kentucky
Venita Plaisted
Mr. Miskimen
Lawrence
Maine
Top Buckingham Palace Post Goes to Man in Queen's Role
London AP reports Elizabeth’s chief press spokesman goes to Ronald Allison over Anne Hawkins who has led palace press for 15 years. Critics say the top post should not go to a man, arguing the job is demanding and unsuitable for a woman.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
Ronald Allison
Anne Hawkins
Palace
Lynda Lee Potter
Daily Mail
Baldwin Show Aims to Raise for Band Uniforms
Baldwin high school hosts a Friday night country western variety show to raise the final 1900 of a 13000 fund for new band uniforms. Band director Jack Brookshire said the drive has reached 11100 so far and the event at Baldwin High School Auditorium starts at 8 p.m. with local entertainers.
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Baldwin
Jack Brookshire
Baldwin High
Baldwin Area
Baldwin High School
Brookshire
Biography of Dos Passos biographer Landsberg
Associate English professor Melvin Landsberg of Kansas University wrote Dos Passos Path to U.S.A a new biography published by Colorado Associated University Press in Boulder. It is the first Dos Passos biography since his 1970 death and rests on nearly twenty years of research and interviews with Dos Passos and his friends.
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Melvin Landsberg
Kansas University
U.S.A
Colorado Associated University Press
Boulder
Landsberg
John Dos Passos
Dos Passos
New Officers Installed At Welcome Wagon Club Installation
Linda Kemper becomes president for the year at a Tuesday night ceremony in Douglas County State Bank. New officers include Anna Thompson first vice president Jennie Bills second vice president Paula Carlson secretary Kim Pulliam treasurer and Janice Andes historian.
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Round Table
Eldridge House
Cleo Williams
J. D. Morgan
Odell Shaver
M. J. Morgan
Carl Althaus
Isabel Gilmore
Douglas County State Bank
Kemper
Anna Thompson
Jennie Bills
Paula Carlson
Kim Pulliam
Janice Andes
Shrine installation set for Friday at Masonic Temple
Fidelity Shrine No. 11 officials will be installed in an open ceremony at 8 p.m. Friday in the Masonic Temple. A reception follows the installation and the Shrine's business meeting will be held at 4 p.m. at the Temple.
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Fidelity Shrine No
Order of the White Shrine of
Jerusalem
Masonic Temple
Engaged La Dean Stoneback to Samuel G. Brown
Mr and Mrs Dean H Stoneback announce the engagement of their daughter La Dean Stoneback to Samuel G Brown son of Mr and Mrs Harold E Brown of Kinsley. La Dean a Lawrence High School graduate and MidAmerica Nazarene College alumna will marry July 13 at the First Church of the Nazarene in Lawrence.
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Cordley Elementary School
Ralph Gage
Castle Tea Room
Dean H. Stoneback
Rt. 4
la Dean
Samuel G. Brown
Harold E. Brown
Kinsley
Miss Stoneback
Lawrence High School
Mid-America
Mr. Brown
Kinsley High School
Mid- American Nazarene College
Don” Hodges
First Church of the Nazarene
Lawrence
Social calendar setup of clubs and meetings
Wednesday events include Parents Without Partners discussion at 8 p.m. at Dorcas Stoffer's home 614 Ala. University Women's Club groups meet: Gardening with Michael Crawford 1 15 p.m. at 4 B Cornish Square, French Play Reading with Mrs James Peoples 2 30 p.m. at 903 W 20th Ter, Green Thumb Garden Club 7 30 p.m. at Teenan Waugh's 1916 Melholland A, Lawrence chapter Sweet Adelines 7 p.m. rehearsal at South Park Recreation Center. Friday Joseph A Wahl Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans 1 30 p.m. at South Park Recreation Center.
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University Women’s Club
Michael H. Crawford
Cornish Square
Universty Women’s Club
James Peoples
W. 20Th Ter
Green Thumb
Teenan Waugh
Melholland A Lawrence
Sweet Adelines
South Park Recreation Center
Joseph A. Wahl
United Spanish War Veterans
Rhubarb Uses Highlighted as Vegetable in Dishes
Rhubarb is botanically a vegetable yet common in pies and desserts. It makes a fine side dish with pork veal or chicken. Ancient China used rhubarb as medicine per the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association. Choose firm crisp stalks not too thin.
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China
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association
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