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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
3
A lively dialogue on the 1948 dress craze in America. Women mock the new look likening it to a wigwam or balloon, demand thrift and sense, and joke about turning to the United Nations to regulate dress designers and curb vanity.
Cited notes advise quick repair for small tears to cut hours off future work and lessen visibility. It promotes bright toy colors for kids, careful care of Turkish towels, framing family portraits uniformly, vaseline on rusted galoshes, and safe use of sour milk in biscuits. Also recommends two dust-cloths, cooling pies on a wire rack, and wrapping bread to stay fresh longer.
A verse fragment depicts a speaker who cannot make peace with most men, except Henry Wallace. The speaker avoids others while showing interest only in Wallace, playfully calling him Hank and Hank’s candy date. The poem uses whimsy to express selective affection.
The Country Editor notes Quent Parker switches to high test gas and weighs a cash ad offer as a distinguished gasoline user. Tootsie Benham’s 1948 bathing costume arrives by regular mail. A Hunter College musical suite centers on an appendix operation with muted strings and woodwinds depicting patient and surgeon actions.
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