Lawrence Journal-World Staff and Publication Details
The Lawrence Journal-World archives note editors and publishers including Dolph C. Simons Jr and Ernest Pontius with staff roles. Publication history shows 1864 establishment, weekly except Sundays, and 1961 circulation rates by carrier and mail in Kansas counties and nationwide. Friday evening issue dated December 22, 1961.
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Dolph Simons
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Bill Mayer Wees
Wack Rimmerman
Ernest Pontius
Simons
Weaily
the World Company
Sixth and
New Hampshire Streetes
Lawrence
Kan
Lawrence St
Douglas
United States
Kaw
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Holiday Schedule Heads Up Before Christmas Weekend
Banks close after 6 p m today and reopen Tuesday morning December 26. Grocery stores shut from Saturday night until Tuesday morning. Restaurants and drug stores adopt tighter hours. If shopping after 5 30 p m Saturday you may be out of luck. Have a very merry Christmas.
Christmas season urges personal goodness amid cynics
A Journal-World editorial reflects on an Interlands cartoon showing a couple near a fallout shelter, using irony to discuss how people would treat a Second Coming. The column urges individuals to act with patience, kindness, and compassion this Christmas season, noting many good deeds occur despite cynics.
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Journal-World
Interlands
Christ
Secretary Has Support
Washington report on the December White House meeting over the Defense Department budget. It contrasts the minimum deterrent favored by Weisner with McNamara’s plan for 800 Minutemen missiles and 41 Polaris subs, plus 1,200 Minutemen as a possible future step. The president sided with McNamara.
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Washington
Defense Department
White House
Air Force
Robert McNamara
Jerome Weisner
McNamara
Atlas
Titan
Strategic Air Command
Minuteman
Maxwell Taylor
Gen. Taylor
Secretary of Defense
The Formal Season Christmas and the Tuxedo’s Birth
A historical note traces the modern tuxedo to Griswold Lorillard who, after visiting England, wore a short jacket at the 1886 Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park New York. He introduced a red coat with black lapels and no tails paired with a wing collar and white tie, shocking peers but shaping formal attire thereafter.
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Griswold Lorillard
Tuxedo Park
N.Y
Evolution of the formal attire and its enduring limits
The article notes that tuxedos evolved from Lorillard's original outfit and largely remain faithful to it despite years of change. It highlights stubborn categories like shirt-front studs and collar-buttons that jewelers still struggle to keep secure during frantic last-minute preparations.
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Lorillard
Old Home Town News Highlights from 1951
The year recount notes the millionth traffic death since auto use began and an average near 100 daily deaths. City votes for fluoridation of water. KU dean Burton Marvin elected president of the Sons and Daughters of New England. Jayhawker basketball crowned Big Six champion last season. Volunteers gave 175 baskets to families. Christmas trees placed with carols planned for Christmas Eve. Kansas urged to enter an industrial era beyond agriculture. Trinity Church service ends with a late streetcar ride on Massachusetts Street.
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Associated Press
Dean Burton Marvin
the Sons and Daughters of
New England
Willis Colman
Floyd Rankin
Charles Oldfather
John Pike
Gov. Landon
Kansas
White House
Maryland
H. L. Mencken
Trinity Episcopal Church
Massachusetts Street
TODAY'S BIBLE MESSAGE
The shepherds returned glorifying God after hearing and seeing. Prayer asks Christ to be born anew in our hearts and move our lives to praise God and seek salvation for men. Amen.
Good Old Days Echo in a Kansas Letter
Mrs. Margaret Smelser of McLouth Kansas laments modern life while celebrating enduring comforts of farm life and rural winters. She recalls cows, water, electricity, cedar smells, Christmas trees, sledding, church warmth, and gratitude that her sons and daughters can still enjoy the good old days.
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Margaret Smelser McLouth
Kan
Circus performer in Belgrade digests unusual items
Nikola Jovanovic, a circus performer known for eating anything, suffered a stomach ache in Belgrade. After X ray doctors opened him up and removed 70 keys 16 penknives 36 nails and nuts plus iron chain and glass from his stomach.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nikola Jovanovic
Slow heart beat and breast cyst guidance by Dr Molner
Reader questions about a slow resting heart rate and low blood pressure suggest a healthy low pressure profile but warrant diagnostic tests like thyroid check and electrocardiogram. A breast cyst suspicion prompts surgical removal for biopsy to rule out malignancy, despite patient reluctance.
Slight Geographical Juxtaposition
Roark argues Goa’s Goans mix with Portuguese and Indians, challenging notions of colonialism and nationalism. He criticizes India’s stance and UN actions, claiming Goa is not a true colony and warning against war over the enclave.
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da Silva
da Costa
Portugal
Goa
Damao
Diu
North Carolina
India
America
Texas
Mexico
Mr. Nehru
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
United Nations
Katanga
Nehru
Pakistan
Tibet
Kashmir
Rhode Island
Pittsburgh
Notable Figures Spar Over Christmas Cards and Careers
Leonard Lyons surveys public figures from Gov Rockefeller’s first Christmas without cards to Adlai Stevenson seeking NY Bar admission. The piece details actors, directors, and writers in flux: Brando’s budget woes, Udall’s Vermont shrine idea, Liston Patterson talks, Salk receiving NYU Club honor with Ochoa and Sabin, Berle and Fonda hair, Merman NY lease, Lancaster art loan, Alec Guinness tours, and Robbins Broadway project updates.
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Rockefeller
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
New York State
William Shirer
Marlon Brando
John Ford
Lewis Milestone
Carol Reed
Udall
National Park
Robert Frost
Vermont
Sonny Liston
George Katz
Floyd Patterson
New York University Club
Jonas E. Salk
Severo Ochoa
NYU
Medical Center
The Finest Gift For Christmas
Hal Boyle reflects on Christmas for ex servicemen, noting peace and family unity as the true gifts. He describes loneliness on battlefronts, unit loyalty as family, and the quiet pain of missing home while troops share meals, read letters, and recall Christmases past in Belgium, the Pacific, or Korea.
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New York
Bers
Belgium
Pacific
Korea
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