Mind science ad offers wartime life guidance booklet
An odd wartime era ad promotes books and pamphlets on sex education listening ability and world peace. It touts “Building Sex Into Your Life” for 25 cents, notes a study on listening and opinion strength, cites Robert C. Cook on fertility and hunger, and markets a 12-chapter conversational guide by Dr A B Wiggam.
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American Institute of Family Relations
Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
James I. Brown
University of Minnesota
A. B. Wige Gam
Cars of Inte
Misleading Defense Play Costs Declarer Contract
ARTHUR GLATT of Chicago a renowned player, made defensive plays that misled declarer. He counted five trumps three diamonds one heart and inferred four clubs in each hand. A second heart led, declarer ruffed and discarded a club from dummy. He played the ten and jack of diamonds on successive rounds, fooling declarer into thinking partner held the nine of diamonds. South faced forced club play, then misread and risked the king, costing the contract.
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Arthur Glatt
Chicago
Glatt
King of Hearts
Queen of Dia
Declarer
South
Dummy
East
West
Declarer Reaches Card Play After Diamond Trumps
In a bridge hand, declarer won with dummy's king of diamonds, drew two rounds of trumps, cashed the ace of diamonds, and let a diamond trick go. The defender would typically return a club, easing declarer's defense in that suit, while Glatt had already captured the lead.
Life Span Reach 125 Years If Organ Use Maximized
Long Beach LA County Medical Association notes ultimate human age around 125 years if organs are used maximally. Dr Edward J. Bortz cites historical life expectancies from Rome to today and urges preventive geriatric care, weight control, diet adjustment, infection prevention, rest, and recreation to extend healthy years. New drugs and hormones are key tools in aging research.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles County Medical Association
Town Hall
Locust Ave
Edward J. Bortz
Boriz
Bortz
Quits Laxatives relief claim for Kellogg's All-Bran
A New Jersey woman credits daily Kellogg's All-Bran with restoring regularity after trying many methods. The ad touts All-Bran as a ready to eat cereal rich in protein and vitamins, promising double money back if not satisfied after ten days with an empty carton sent to Battle Creek Michigan.
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New Jersey
Kellona
Kelloge
Battle Creek
Mich
Everybody has a schwa in speech and writing
MIT Technology Review explains the schwa sound as a neutral vocalization that can replace vowels in English. The piece notes its presence in "above" and in formal speech, adds examples like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and mentions its rising use in modern radio and stage speech while briefly noting nonhuman language with a click-based variant in a Kalahari tribe.
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New York
Truman
Eisenhower
Churchhill
Yogi Berra
Sen. Taft
Shirley Temple
Frank Costello
Technology Review
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Massachusetts
Institute
Kalahari Desert
Africa
U. S. First in Bible's Circulation
Readers can learn Bible distribution facts from the Long Beach Press Telegram Information Bureau. Questions cover country ranks, historical dating in England, and blood transfusion quantities. The piece notes the United States leads Bible complete Bible circulation, with Germany second.
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
United Bible Societies
United States
Germany
Quotes and quotes about spies and art from postwar remarks
A collage of comments including Madge Meredith after prison release, Mr. Vishinsky on espionage fears, UN delegate Michael Mansfield, and Paris poet Blaise Cendrars about painters catering to millionaires. The excerpt links emerging paranoia with cultural figures across politics and art.
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