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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1947
Page
9
SEN WHERRY notes civic groups can request military ornaments from the Navy Department. A German mine anchor or a 105 millimeter Japanese howitzer could decorate front yards, serving as a constant reminder of nations needing peaceful problem solving.
Senator Soaper muses that April marks equal ground for big league teams and the public event. The text mocks character tests in magazines, envisions a grand indoor setting with a 100 yard dash on a sawdust track, and jokes about vegetables and campaigns. It also nods to Yellowstone visitors and a quip about Pravda and the Brewster committee.
Ambrose Casner of New York Life Master No 54 often asks about the Children's Cancer Fund. Casner provided today's hand but kept East and West hidden to illustrate the play. Declarer wins the opening heart lead in dummy and heads.
Casner and the column dissect a bridge sequence where the declarer must choose a line after drawing trumps. The advised play for South is to ruff a heart in dummy, read a small diamond and win with the ace, then lead the jack of diamonds. If West wins, the hand may rely on diamonds or spades for safety, with careful ruffing and timing to avoid losing to West’s king or a return that harms South.
A garbled OCR page lists clues and answers across horizontal and vertical entries. It references a new collector, various words like Roman helmet, Babylonian deity, and legal terms, indicating a word puzzle or cryptic crossword with numerous numbered hints and scattered place names.
A fragment discusses immigration mixing and offspring traits with references to Metropolitan Insurance Co statistics and Dr Louis Dublin. It notes Chinese parentage children’s height and health, then shifts to life expectancy advances since 1900. It promotes a booklet Heart of Conversation by Multan Weight offered for 10 cents through Dr A E Wiggum.
A snippet from Tulsa World cites the phrase ethics as a persistent problem, noting an odd exchange involving KHI News and MFON Wawa. The item frames ethics as a constraint one cannot ignore even with an empty stomach.
Reader questions answered on topics from the White House at Vincennes to Labor Day dates and gold in ores. Includes notes on sunburn timing and general knowledge facts drawn from the Information Bureau Q&A.
Senator Taft labels current education policy as dangerous and dangerous misdirection. President Truman counters by arguing that sustained ignorance breeds international mistrust, insisting that peace cannot be built on unfounded assumptions.
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