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Newspaper

Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1953

Page

11

Explore Your Mind By Albert Edward Wiggam D Se

Answers discuss teen daydreaming self focus and how parents influence youths, noting self assertion and loyalty to peers. Also covers athletes versus non athletes in intelligence and scholarship with mixed Harvard findings. Concludes education requires balanced personality and social skills, promoting a booklet on managing emotions.

F. M. Gregg

Howie the Complainer and the Night Taxi Ride

In a rambling tale, the narrator recalls Howie the Complainer a night outside Lindy’s. Howie recounts a Bronx move to Flushing after a mobbed uptown befalling, and a gunpoint confrontation near a speak easy that nearly cost his life, with a shocking twist about whose baby shoes hung from the mirror.

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Greetings to Bridge Players from Oswald Jacoby

Bridge columnist Oswald Jacoby sends Merry Christmas wishes to his four bridge friends North South East and West. He humorously notes North’s lazy play, South’s hard work and errors, West’s burden of opening leads, and East’s occasional ease. He describes a recent hand with an ambitious contract and a sequence of leads, ruffs, and misplays ending with declarer success under pressure.

North South East West Santa Claus Declarer

Poor Pa Bill Sparks Family Sparring Over Souls

Lucy clashes with Ma over personal autonomy as the family disputes spiritual ownership. Cousin Lucy resists the overbearing rules while Ma insists Lucy’s soul is pledged to Satan, igniting a tense household argument.

Bill Lucy Satan

Left-Handed Talent Highlighted by Doctors

Doctors say about one in every 100 people is left handed and brain function explains the handedness. The right brain governs the left side of the body, while the left brain governs the right, making left handedness not unusual and linked to talent. Greats like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are cited.

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Unwanted Yule Tie Finally Finds Home

A whimsy archival tale traces a bright rejected necktie from 1928 sales failure to a global roaming prank. A nearsighted buyer, a floor manager promotion, and a bachelor’s closet keep the tie moving via mail, jokes, and memories before a final gifting twist ends the Christmas tale.

The Necktie That Nobody Wanted Moral Lifted

A stranger gives a box to a blind man who finds a necktie inside. The man wears it to a family dinner and is touched by the niece’s description. The bum who found the box remains unseen, and the gift becomes a cherished keepsake. The tale ends with the moral that beauty comes from the heart.

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