Topper silk hat craft dwindles in Britain amid war loss
The silk hat, once a symbol of Great Occasion and global fashion, declines as Christy’s, once Britain’s top maker, now has only four workers left. Ageing specialists perform body making finishing and shaping while Miss Maud Pizzey handles crown work. The plush hat’s decline began with motor cars and war damage, threatening an enduring British craft.
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Eric Williams
Messrs Christy
Britain
Maud Pizzey
London
Piccadilly
Regent Street
France
Waterloo
United States
South America
Tokyo Bay
Eton College
Westminster School
Eton
Messrs
T. W. Sutton
Christy
U.K
Australians Starved POWs Now Try To Lose Weight
Former Australian Eighth Division POWs liberated from Japanese camps in Siam Malaya Sumatra Java and Japan faced weight gain as they recovered and now many in Sydney fitness centers are actively reducing. They report difficulty resisting food between meals as they attempt to regain normal weight after nearly four years of hardship.
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Siam
Malaya
Sumatra
Java
Japan
Sydney
Aluminum Houses Britain Hopes To Ease Housing Shortage
Housing experts from 20 countries have inquired about aluminum prefabricated houses as Britain's fast solution. Factories plan to hit one unit every 244 minutes by February, with Bristol crews building a house and connecting services in 4214 minutes. The frames are as durable as brick and weather tested against freezing, steam, and 80 mph Beaufighter gales.
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Britain
Bristol
Beaufighter
Fact Bits From History Dozens of Curious Details
A miscellany of odd facts covers diamond cutters training on potatoes, orange juice concentrate versus fruit shipments, the goose muscle count, Roman building ventilation, prison use in ancient Rome, 16th century merchant badges, Pompeii murals depicting hat wearers, and soil weed seed counts. The items present a snapshot of curiosity across eras.
Mrs Clementine Powell Home Sick From Manchester to London
Mrs Clementine Powell aged 88 from Choriton Cum Hardy Manchester flew the Atlantic to London Airport saying she was home sick during a visit to her son a Montana rancher.
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Clementine Powell
Choriton-Cum-Hardy
Manchester
London
Montana
Navy veteran risks license by sky drop ring return
Edward R. Swiderski, 21, used a war developed sky drop to return a class ring to his girlfriend at Marygrove College. He flew two passes with a private plane and dropped the ring attached to a kerchief while students watched, saying the ring was needed before her parents visited campus.
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Detroit
Edward R. Swiderski
Exclusive Marygrove College
Swiderski
Gerald Groat
Canadian Ad Market Opens with Major Ad Spend
The first Canadian newspaper advertisement appeared on Monday March 23 1952. Advertisers spent 35 million dollars in Canadian newspapers this year, signaling strong market activity and growth for print ads across the country.
World's Largest Cyclotron Completed at Berkeley
Berkeley California announces completion of the enormous cyclotron designed to probe fundamental forces and aid advanced energy research. Construction began August 1940, halted for World War II, and finished after about six years of work on the UC campus hilltop. The machine previously aided uranium 235 production in 1943 and 1944 for early atom bombs.
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Berkeley
Calif
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California
Bermuda by election shows quiet campaign with four candidates
In Pembroke Bermuda a by election featured no meetings no speeches and no organized canvassing. Four candidates banker H D Butterfield and merchants A E Nicholl Gilbert Cooper Archie Mercer offered brief notices. Butterfield won 166 to 164 over Nicholl while Cooper 66 and Mercer 39. Mercer lost his deposit as only 39 votes. Voter eligibility included real estate worth 240 with 884 eligible of 5000 residents and 448 ballots cast. The winner joins the 300 year old assembly with no commitments.
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Ford Baxter
C.P
T G Gecvachonan
Bermuda
Lord Burghley
House of Assembly
Pembroke
H. D. Butterfield
A. E. Nicholl
Gilbert Cooper
Archie Mercer
Butterfield
Nicholl
Cooper
Times
Mercer
Assembly
Westminster
Rare Strix Owl Captured in Vancouver Zoo Scene
A spotted strix owl, one of North America’s rarest birds, was captured by Jack Sosnoski at the Granville and Hastings corner and taken to Vancouver city zoo. Keeper Frank Beebe calls it the only one in captivity in Canada and notes its rarity among naturalists. The bird’s dark brown, white‑spotted plumage and dark eyes distinguish the species, found along the coastal range from California to British Columbia.
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Vancouver
North America
Stanley Park Zoo
Jack Sosnoski
Granville
Hastings
Sosnoski
City
Canada
Frank Beebe
California
British Columbia
Corey baby to choose own name later in California
Joseph Corey and his wife Lucille in San Pedro California told hospital staff they believe a child should pick his own name when old enough. They said dating fathers and mothers often handicap a child with names and want their son to decide later.
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Joseph Corey
Corey
Lucille
San Pedro
Calif
United Kingdom Sets New Record in Cloth Output
Last August the UK cotton industry set new records in cloth production including cotton, rayon, and mixtures. The weaving section produced 40,000,000 linear yards weekly, 1 percent above May’s peak and 28 percent higher than August 1945.
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United Kingdom
Distinctive Cutwork Pattern 7278 Promotes Handiwork
Pattern 7278 offers transfer for 14 motifs from 2x2 to 4x15 inches with improved visuals and charts. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue East Winnipeg Man. Include name and address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Nion
McDermot Avenue E
Man
Retired Naval Officer Opens First Indian Tea Garden
A retired naval officer established the initial Indian tea garden in primeval jungle and shipped the first tea to London in 1883.
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London
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Nancy P. Beach
New York
Charles E. Beach
Blasas River
Mexico City
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Atom
Telck
George Humphrys
Rouge River
Ont
National Research Council
Ottawa
U.S
K. M. Baird
University of New Brunswick
Strix
Stanley Park
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