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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1953
Page
22
A reader notices sewing patterns with embroidery transfers and crochet ideas priced at twenty-five cents, plus a Laura Heeler needlecraft book offer. The item mix includes a dental health column explaining teething timelines, prenatal and infant nutrition, vitamin D importance, and a dentist consultation suggestion. Also mentions a Honolulu vacation notice for Mrs. Gustav Raney.
A marketing flyer promotes a nine day reducing diet claiming rapid weight loss with a plan that includes baked potatoes and a sugar allowance. It lists spring timing, sample menus for Saturday and Sunday, and solicits ten cents plus a self addressed envelope for a diet booklet from Josephine Lowman in care of the Press Telegram.
In lively columns Alyce Rivard mixes domestic tips with sharp quips about marriage and gender roles. The piece playfully riffs on ice cream recipes and fashion gaffes while urging partnership over conflict, end with a provocative John Barrymore quote about fighting a woman.
The Musical Arts Club plans an evening dinner meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Tudor Room of the Pacific Coast Club. Dorothy Judy Klein presides as Elizabeth Derry chairs the program featuring Jester J. Hairston, expert on Negro music and Spirituals, with talk, demonstration, and audience participation. Hairston, Tufts graduate, has worked with the Hall Johnson Choir and led a Hollywood choir. He has acting roles in TV and teaches choral singing at the College of the Pacific. Reservations through dinner secretary Edith Wyant.
At 3254 San Francisco Ave a Tau Chapter meeting installed Mrs. Paul Smith as president. Other staff include Mrs. Jack Hayden as vice president and Mrs. Byron Gaynor as treasurer. Recent sorority events featured hostesses Beth Misiner Bettye Watt Emma Lou Sharrer and June Martin at a Houghton Park picnic and a kidnap breakfast at 2213 E65th St.
The Lady Lions North Long Beach Club met Tuesday at Miller's Restaurant with Mines Brazil A. Car regon and Marvin J. Garrett as hostesses for the dinner. Robert Metzger of the Long Beach Harbor Dept. spoke and presented the color film Freedom's Shores.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewing G. Brien of 625 East 55th Street completed an extended trip through Mexico. They visited Guadalajara for a week as guests of Mrs. Brien’s brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. JH McGivern, then traveled by car to Mexico City Cuernavaca Taxco Oaxaca and Mitla.
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