What This Country Needs Most
A satirical column argues for a dedicated college for chefs and hotel managers to improve American dining and lodging. It cites Yale affiliated GI schools in cooking and menu planning, mocks current restaurant practices, and praises Yale while urging Harvard and Princeton to follow. The piece ends with a quip about Realtor racing in Miami and concludes with the Seminole Indians’ annual day at Hialeah.
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G. I
Yale
Hialeah
Everglades
Hollywood links linger in studio and stars
CBS Hallmark Playhouse producer Engelbach earns praise for guiding strong performances from actors who might lack star power. Joan Fontaine and Gregory Peck recall directing alike, while Peck hesitated but accepted The Prairie Years role. Willard Waterman and Betty Gerson head into new film work, and The March of Time offers vacation ideas amid Hollywood chatter.
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EE Engelbach
CBS
Hallmark Playhouse
Joan Fontaine
Irene Dunne
Gregory Peck
Miss Fontaine
Random Harvest
Playhouse
Peck
Hollywood
Guiding Light
Willard Waterman
Ray Brandon
Bing Crosby
Betty Gerson
Republic
Miss Gerson
The Fiction Corner Minute: Andy Wins Soap Contest
In a tense scene, Andy and Helen clash over ambition while Andy contemplates enlisting. A radio contest prize changes his mood as he hesitates, then lands a first prize telegram from Sudzy-Soap, prompting him to take a job and move forward.
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Sudzy-Soap IS
Prize Hopeful Learns of Job After Radio Contest
Andy learns he did not win the five hundred dollars from the radio contest while a telegram arrives. The message prompts anger at rivals but also sparks reconciliation between Andy and Helen as they plan to marry after he starts a mechanic’s job. The scene frames family, radio culture, and small town life.
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Andy
Robert Amherst
Needlecraft patterns for bluebird towels in catalog era
Bluebird embroidered towels pattern 676 offers six motifs 54 by 7 inches with transfer. Send 20 cents per pattern to obtain transfers and color designs. Catalog promotes crochet knitting embroidery toys tools and home accessories with illustrations available for fifteen cents.
Designing a House Across Four States in Indian Territory
A hypothetical plan imagines a single house with rooms in New Mexico Arizona Colorado and Utah. The shared site would lie deep in Indian territory far from towns and used as winter grazing land, making access extremely difficult for travelers.
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New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Utah
Indian Territory
Bride's wedding attire rhymes and quiz questions
A quirky quiz asks: name in rhyme the four wedding attire items a bride wears. identify the three primary colors. locate Portu gal's capital. name the author of The Star Spangled Banner. define sten torian. count acres in a square mile. locate the Zuyder Zee. name Moby Dick author. convert 9 AM San Francisco to Japan time. list the four main types of bombs used in air raids.
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Portugal
San Francisco
Japan
Something old something new and a borrowed blue
A compact list mentions something old something new something borrowed and something blue. It references colors red yellow and blue and places Lisbon and Holland alongside figures Francis Scott Key Herman Melville and a time 2 A M tomorrow. It also lists 640 acres and a set of terms demolition fragmentation general purpose and incendiary.
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Lisbon
Francis Scott Key
Holland
Herman Melville
Build a Birdhouse From a Printed Pattern No 11
Learn to make an attractive birdhouse using only hand tools. Each house component is printed full size on the pattern. Cut pieces to pattern shapes and fasten in the indicated positions. Send 20c for Pattern No 11 to East Bird Pattern Company Dept W Pleasantville NY.
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East-Bird Pattern Company
Dept. W
Pleasantville
New York
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues Mixed
Crossword clues list across and down with multiple definitions and puzzle notes including abbreviations and language hints for solution and entries. The grid references span foods, tools, animals, and objects. several entries imply chemistry and geography while others hint at historical terms and regional spellings.
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College For Chefs
America
New Haven
Harvard
Princeton
Miami
Shadda Haddim
Florida
Arguin
Skinner
Grace Noll Crowell
Strgesso
Inez Gerhard
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Engelbach
Pate
Chissell
RKO
Cleveland
Packy East
Wayt
Packy
Bob Hone
the Fiction Corner
Elen
Helen
Hyville
Andy Tyson
Pay
Bluebirds
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Pala
PSU MA
U. S
C.O. D
Boote’s Hatcheries, Inc
Worthington
Mion
Mem
Meo
Kingdom
Europe
Orient
Peru
Raed
Shriner’s
Tax Inc
FEZ
Johantgen Jewelers
Mpls
Minn
Richey
Doan
Mma el Een
Aoa
Doans
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