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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1953
Page
11
A fragment from Let’s Explore Your Mind by Albert Edwa Wiggam discusses whether talent comes from heredity or environment. It cites a Moscow Literary Gazette line claiming women have feelings and contrasts heredity with learned skill, noting society’s mixed views on innate ability versus effort.
Peggy Lee, once Nora Egsatrom from Jamestown North Dakota, rose from washing hash to singing with Benny Goodman and earning top supper club pay. Her formula is holding onto a dream, plus belief in herself, as she built a $250,000 yearly income, wrote 25 lyrics, and pursued acting and poetry.
Educator John Goodland of Emory University sums up research on whether non-promotion aids all‑round development. He says most studies favor promotion for personality growth, but no single plan fits every child.
Peggy speaks of juggling acting and script work in Hollywood as she recalls a formative remark guiding her. She plans to become a writer to preserve memories of inspiring people and to help herself overcome tight spots, carrying lessons from a child’s confidence into adult journeys.
A bridge hand discussion analyzes South and North in a five diamonds contract. West opens with the ace of spades and declarers maneuver for winning tricks. The narrative considers possible improvements and tricky play choices.
In this hands on bridge problem South must decide a discard at the second trick. He chooses to shed a low spade from the dummy and West comments before South wins the second club with the king, then draws two rounds of trumps with the queen.
A single company manufactured 31,350,000 kegs of nails in World War II. The output was enough to fill a freight train stretching 687 miles, illustrating the era's vast industrial capacity and wartime logistics.
In a bridge scenario Parker jack crafts a plan to force out dummy's king and set up a spade finesse. South declines spade finesse, aims to make opponents take it for him, and uses repeated discards and trump moves to exhaust West. West is left with no good return, while South secures the contract.
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