Birthday chaos and blackmailer tales in reader letters
A homemade annals of humor and hardship with anecdotes from readers. A birthday mishap ends in a living room reveal as secrets surface through a secretary and wife. A correspondent admires Ann Landers for urging courage against blackmail and shares a blunt concluding note.
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Ann Landers
Shining Mountain Sentinel
Ann
From Pop-Up Shop to Couture Hat Design in New York
Frank Olive, a 40-year-old milinery designer, started in a tiny Greenwich Village shop and built a career creating hats for wholesale and custom clients. He apprenticed with Chanda and later learned through years in stores and top hat houses while evolving with fashion trends. Olive now travels 20 weeks yearly to educate buyers and serve as an ambassador for his products.
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New York
Frank Olive
Greenwich Village
Olive
Art Institute
Chicago
Las Vegas
Seventh Avenue
New York City
Norman Norell
Chanda
Oshkosh
Beverly Hills
Manhattan
Fashions look back on colorful history
New York AP notes colonial era men favored opulent silks and brocades for formal wear while Beau Brummel's all black look shifted norms. The tuxedo evolved from the sack coat with Griswold Lorillard popularizing it in the 1890s though tails lingered for decades.
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New York
America
American Formalwear Association
AFA
Beau Brummel
England
Brummel
Griswold Lorillard
Designer Advocates Storage to Keep Rooms Neat for Orphan Boys
Interior designer Mary Knackstedt of Harrisburg notes practical storage and accessible shelves help young residents aged 4 to 15 keep rooms orderly. In Hershey, Pa, a community for 1,500 orphan boys expanded to add furniture and spaces aligned with the boys preferences, with blue favored and strong colors preferred over pastels.
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Associated Press
Mary Knackstedt
Harrisburg
Mary K
Hershey
Orphan Home
Grant funds new aviary at North Carolina zoo
Bird House in Asheboro receives a 600000 dollar grant from the North Carolina Zoological Society to build an aviary that will display hundreds of birds from around the world.
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Bird House
Asheboro, N.C
North Carolina Zoological Society
Austria uses castles and gypsy fiddlers to lure tourists
Austria promotes Burgenland attractions such as wine seminars in Donnerskirchen and plays in Forchtenstein castle moat to draw foreign visitors. Imported Hungarian fiddlers, castle rooms, and horse drawn buggies offer novel lodging and experiences as part of a broader push to boost tourism and offset trade deficits.
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Vienna
Austria
Burgenland
Tyrol
Salzburg
Donnerskirchen
Lake Neusiedl
Marr
Hungary
Forchtenstein Castle
Franz Grillparzer
Europe
Switzerland
Denmark
Spain
U.S
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