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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1973
Page
9
New York special report summarizes a Life Insurance Institute study of Americans aged HM to 25. It finds youth questioning traditional family roles while chasing careers and security, with more women in the workforce and increasing life insurance ownership totaling about 225 billion dollars.
Actress Olivia de Havilland speaks at the Hotel Plaza Oak Room about an upcoming autobiography and a life she expects to be exciting and transformed. She recalls her lost film work, two Oscars, and current Paris home with Pierre Galante.
Readers discuss budgeting and buying wisely. A letter urges prudent shopping, warns against chasing bargains, and stresses that value depends on need and quality. Also contains household tips for ice packs and scrubbing with nylon screen.
Chicago columnist Mary Sue Miller urges mid winter readers to break monotony at home with changes in furnishings and plants. She suggests round the world dishes, new wardrobe accents, beauty updates, and trying new classes or clubs to restore morale. Readers may write Mary Sue Miller in care of The Lubbock Avalanche Journal for beauty questions.
A vintage guide explains simplifying angel food cake using electric mixers. It covers sugar blends with dextrose for solubility, whipping to stiff peaks, and cooling the pan upside down for a light, elastic cake. Includes detailed measurements and step by step speeds and techniques.
The Mary W. Doak Scholarship or Recruitment Grant invites junior or senior women at Texas Tech who intend to teach after graduation to apply. A $75 per semester award honors Tech’s first dean of women, with selection based on scholarship leadership and service. Applications are in West Hall 11 and due by February 7.
New York based Tracers Company of America, led by Ed Goldfader, reports 1972 saw more runaway wives and husbands than ever. The firm tracked 738 wives and 1,394 husbands, with 75 to 80 percent located, and notes wives average 34, first child within 11 months, second 18 months after marriage.
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