Heloise hints on wigs pie crust and homemade tips
A compilation of readers tips covers wig care using a wire dog brush and steam to aid styling. It includes sewing snaps with chalk marks, car seat weight misdirection, glass pie plates for perfect crusts, repurposing a teapot as a string holder, margarine to reduce jam foam, and using baby food carrots to ease carrot cake.
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Heloise
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Bridge misdirection trumping: eight-card suit beats nine
North dealer with West hand S4 872 AKJ 106 and North A110 AZORES KQ93 a7 opens clubs. The article recounts a national championship hand where six diamonds made versus six hearts failed due to pacing and ruffing sequence, illustrating that an eight-card combined suit can outperform a longer one as trump.
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Gift of quitting smoking transforms a marriage
Ann Landers shares a reader's birthday gift tale as a husband quits smoking after years of heavy use, hoping to inspire others. A follow up letter defends practical floors advice for handling a heavy relative and another discusses a pet etiquette issue before addressing alcoholism resources.
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Ann Landers
Minneapolis
Minnie
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Dr Crane Says Smoking Dulls Male Appetite and Desire
A woman describes her husband Bill quitting tobacco and becoming more romantic, while Dr Crane claims cigarettes reduce a man's gastric appetite and erotic hunger. The piece cites military use and politicians, arguing nicotine acts as a temporary erogenous anesthetic, reversible after quitting.
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Today In History August 22 Through Six Decades
Historical notes mark August 22 events from 1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives at New Amsterdam to 1967 still years of war and policy shifts. Notable items include Leningrad siege reach in 1941, Santa Fe annexation in 1846, 1928 Smith accepts Democratic nomination, and Kennedy era space and Vietnam remarks.
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Santa Fe
Alfred E. Smith
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
State Department
China
John F. Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Dean Rusk
Vietnam
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