Summer is the time of escape and lazy ease
Summer arrives with promise and reluctance, a favorite season praised by poets and marked by heat and travel. The piece notes solstice as turning point, vacation rush, and the shift to informal dress and slower pace, depicting summer as the respectable time for leisure and distant travel.
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Bartlett
Shakespear
William Ernest ‘Henley
Henry James
Paris
Canada
Mexico
Noble Experiment Studying Bee Timekeeping Lands in New York
Five thousand French bees arrive in New York for study by the American Museum of Natural History. Researchers seek to learn if bees can master timing and memory across travel, feeding on clover only from 8 30 to 10 30 p m Paris time, then adapting to New York schedules. The work aims to illuminate the traveler’s sense of time amid jet lag and dislocations.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History
University of Paris
Fifth Avenue
Hherefore
Uncle Sam
Johnny
Johnnys
America
Auto output to set new record amid rising vehicle numbers
The production outlook remains strong as 1955 may surpass the 6.6 million cars seen in 1950. Through May, output rose 47 percent from a year ago, with highway planners anticipating growth to 61 million vehicles by year end and 93 million by 1975, barring broader prosperity.
Houston family tests 72 hour underground air raid shelter
Mr and Mrs John R Christmas and their young son and daughter crawled from a fully equipped pit after 72 hours underground as part of an air raid drill in Houston. Civil Defense officials watched the family’s shelter designed to withstand a nuclear deluge.
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John R. Christmas
Houston
Civil Defense
I'd Rather Be A Bird by Robert C. Ruark
Houston June 20. A humorous riff on a Canadian osprey dispute with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ruark muses on birds, rails, and human foibles, praising birds while lampooning pigeons and chickens. He imagines how engineers moved a nest off a telegraph pole onto a wire, and ends noting how nice it is to be a bird that can stand off a railroad.
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Houston
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Railroad
C.P. Railway
Canadian Pacific
Central Park
Washington, D. C
Idlewild
Geneva Summit Seen as Potential Step Toward World Peace
FRANK R. KENT notes the Geneva heads of four powers opening July 18 could mark a tentative move toward lasting peace. He argues public support for Eisenhower amid Democratic criticism shows a divided American view as the conference looms and cautions against censorship accusations. Thailand's farmers compose 85 percent of its population.
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Washington
Geneva
Thailand
United Kingdom
Eisenhower faces Big Four with giant's strength and caution
Washington notes ahead of the Geneva summit. The columnist argues Eisenhower can leverage leadership and restraint against Eden and Faure while Bulganin lags behind, citing American air power superiority and Soviet weaknesses in aviation and industry. The piece urges realism and warns against overhyped diplomacy.
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Eisenhower
Free World
Eden
Faure
Marshal Bulganin
Soviet Russia
Kremlin
D Bulganin
Stalin
Communist Party
Foreign Office
Frisenhower
Bulgaria
Ike
Russia
Why Are We All In Such A Hurry
A reflective piece questions modern busyness and rush in daily life. The narrator recalls driving a 1922 Buick on Father’s Day and notes strangers rushing past a stranded motorist, highlighting a lack of help and compassion. The piece ends with the repeated question why speed dominates so many activities.
Youre Telling Me! Witty and oddball notes from press
A collage of quirky tidbits spans a Montreal barber fined a token dollar for undercharging, a Korea quake with a booming report, the GOP baseball clash with Democrats, a Queen Elizabeth honor joke about kitchen deficits, a Bermuda Atlantic peak, Japan highway to Mount Fuji, and a Michigan festival featuring 1,200 musicians and 304 instruments.
Treasury Secretary warns industry can endure thermonuclear attack
George M. Humphrey says the United States could recover quickly after a thermonuclear blow, not belittling the impact but stressing resilience. Paul Whiteman adds optimism about music and bands improving compared to the past.
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Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Congress Is Calm by F C Othman
A humorous column reviews U S Congress budget plans noting ice for brows, clocks, restaurant subsidies, mail volume, prayer room attendant costs, Capitol dome painting, and a damaged Battle of Lake Erie canvas. It cites total House operating costs nearing 33.8 million dollars and jokes about office-building plans.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
America
Little Park
Agriculture
Arthur E. Summerfield
Capitol Dome
Lake Erie
Walt Horan
J. G. Stewart
Capitol
Senators
House of Representatives
Fairly Spoken By Margaret Latrobe on Reading Methods
Margaret Latrobe rebuts Rudolph Flesch and European teaching claims about reading. She argues Americans teach by sound and word recognition, noting children reach grade reading levels by third or fourth grade and that early methods do not cause social or political decline. Latrobe defends U.S. libraries and literacy progress.
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Johnny
Rudolph Flesch
Flesch
Little Johnny
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Russian-born Serge Kousseevitsky Led Boston Orchestra
Serge Kousseevitsky born July 26 1874 in Russia graduated Moscow Conservatory. He organized an 85 member symphony that toured Russia and Europe before moving to the United States in 1924 to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He resigned in 1948.
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Serge Kousseevitsky
Russia
Conservatory of
Moscow
United States
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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