Burning debate over cigarette remarks in Ann Landers column
Readers react to Ann Landers cigarette guidance with praise and anger. Letters from Drea Free, Nicotine Addict, and others critique the Minneapolis critique, defend smoking, and ask for apologies. The exchange touches independence, manners, and censorship themes.
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Ann Landers
Will Jones
Minneapolis
Surgeon General
Dear Ann Landers
Heloise Tips On Frugal Hacks And Easy Home Fixes
A collection of reader hints including protecting ice chests with corrugated cardboard, adding nylon netting to fan blades for safety, enriching boiled vegetables with bouillon, adding a fabric panel to summer dresses, freezing children's clothes to reduce ironing, watering philodendrons with spray bottles for faster growth, and making bassinette covers cooler for hot weather.
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Ruth Davis
Reduce or Die Diet Helped Ida Jean Kain Lose Eighty Pounds
A homemaker recounts overcoming obesity with a 1200 calorie diet and daily exercise after a doctor warned her of death. She dropped from 252 to 172 pounds, stopped diabetes medication, and now exercises 30 minutes daily while aiming for 150 pounds. Her story notes family pride and ongoing slow progress.
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Ida Jean Kain
Ida Jean
Dr. Crane explores ambition in small town practice
Dr. Jay, 36, in a 5 000 population town contemplates leaving for a big city to teach and gain status. The piece analyzes ego, need for acclaim, and motives, contrasting influence of local acts such as Scouting and teaching with broader career ambitions. It ends by recommending the booklet Sex Problems in Marriage from The Journal.
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George W. Crane
Jay
Crane
Big City
Boy Scouts
Chicago
New York
Hollywood
Napoleon
Hitler
Mussolini
Campiex
Steinmetz
Beethoven
Milton
Demosthenes
Julius Caesar
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jay
Journal
Diet Pill Warning and Diet Drug Dangers
The piece exposes the risks of diet pills and unscrupulous doctors who sell them. It advises on proper use, potential habit formation, and possible illnesses, highlighting what readers should know before taking these pills. The item promotes July Reader's Digest on sale.
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Reader’s Digest
Heloise Answers Readers in Her Helpful Column
Heloise invites letters and welcomes mail with household hints she can share when space allows. She cannot answer every inquiry but will respond in the column whenever possible.
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Heloise
Shift To A Shift Pattern 9205 Misses Size 14
Miss Marian Martin pattern 9205 offers a sleeveless shift dress in linen cotton denim or Dacron with sizes 10 to 20. Pattern costs 50 cents plus 15 cents mailing. mail order from Middletown Ohio Journal Pattern Dept 232 West 18th Street New York NY 10011. Include name address zip size and style number. Catalog offers 350 design ideas and free pattern coupon.
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Marian Martin
Middletown
Ohio
Journal
Pattern Dept
West 18Th St
New York
N. Y
State weighs historic shrines for Mary Todd Lincoln home and Cassius Clay house
Kentucky officials evaluate designating two more historic sites as shrines. The prospective markers include the Mary Todd Lincoln house at Lexington and the Cassius M. Clay home near Richmond, tying memory to notable figures.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
Mary Todd Lincoln
Lexington
Richmond
Cassius M. Clay
Israel Philharmonic to Tour USSR Moscow Philharmonic Exchange
In a reciprocal exchange, the Israel Philharmonic will visit the Soviet Union while the Moscow Philharmonic tours Israel. Each orchestra will perform 17 concerts on its November exchange, highlighting cultural exchange between Israel and the Soviet Union.
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