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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1954
Page
11
Horoscopic style chart lists date ranges and symbols for daily readings. Fragmentary OCR shows number shifts, season groupings, and placeholder labels. The readable portion references zodiac style periods and a chart for March 21 to April 20 through to November.
A Saulog style review notes the comedy Oh Men Oh Women about a wife bored by domestic routine who seeks independence through psychoanalysis. The critic argues the outside world feels glamorous but is in fact a routine, unglamorous grind for men and the same for many women, ending with the line that the outside is just the inside out.
The average farm kitchen uses 20 to 30 tons of water yearly. Transporting it from an outdoor pump would take about 30 eight hour days of labor. The new engines are durable and require overhaul only half as often as before. Transistors use about one millionth of a watt. A vacuum tube needs one watt just to heat its filament.
South faces a six hearts contract with all thirteen tricks unlikely. West leads jack of spades, East signals seven of spades, South wins ace and notes East holds king. He ruffs six rounds, discards clubs, then exits diamonds. Dummy shows two spades and ace of clubs. South has two clubs and one trump as opponents react.
In a bridge problem, both East and West save two spades. South discards a showing ace of clubs from dummy and ruffs a spade to win the final trick with the deuce of clubs. The defense’s two spades force specific ruffing and card placement to secure the last tricks.
A parishioner from MA expresses desire for prettier singers to attend the church, noting she can tell by the way they sing that they brighten the congregation.
In this item, a life insurance statistician notes rising marriage rates among young women and men since 1940. It contrasts 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 age groups, with higher current marriage shares. The piece also challenges dog myths and warns about deference to praise in offices, citing examples of credited ideas.
Aunt Het expresses belief in college as a path to self worth. If youth fail to learn from books, they may return feeling like nobodies or feel they are somebody through education.
A Long Beach medical committee article discusses physical defects as mental hazards and explores effects on children. It notes deformities from birth or later, social reactions, stigma, withdrawal, and possible compensatory talents or overcompensation through self-expression.
By Gladys Parker the article discusses how a satisfying method of self expression helps a deformed child stay occupied, gain happiness, and receive recognition. It argues that such activity supports normal personality development and notes that some children with major physical abnormalities reach chosen objectives where they excel beyond their peers.
The excerpt discusses wisdom as knowing daily life realities and cites Ecclesiastes 2 48 2 about wisdom changing a person’s face. It emphasizes that true knowledge lies in practical perception rather than abstract theory.
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