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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1976
Page
4
A humorous critical review argues sleeping is a natural, liberating activity. It praises the book The Joy of Sleeping for normalizing naps, rejects “sleepy head” labels, and notes quirky illustrations. The piece recalls Taft's bunny habit and recounts a polling booth doze incident as a light anecdote.
James M. Symes, former chairman of the board of the old Pennsylvania Railroad, died Thursday at a Feasterville nursing home in Pennsylvania. He was 79.
Seventeen-year-old Tina Bischoff of Columbus Ohio completed a one way English Channel swim in 9 hours 3 minutes from Shakespeare Bay England to France. The time is unofficial until Channel Swimming Association reviews an official observer report. The prior one way record was 9 hours 35 minutes set 11 years earlier by Barry Watson.
Lord Byron noted in his diary in 1813 that his poems were read in Athens County Ohio, where a five shelf library funded by coonskins was cataloged as a sign of fame, marking his first sense of literary recognition on the banks of the Ohio.
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