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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
3
A reader condemns a 9 year old’s bra ad as harmful and urges emotional reassurance via love and attention. A difficult family holiday scene prompts tips to manage disruptive 7 year olds, plus guidance for a young graduate facing job rejections.
The Appanoose Baptist Missionary Society held a Christmas meeting at Mrs Earl Gilliland s home with a covered dish dinner at noon. Mrs Gilliland president led the business session as members sang carols and Mrs Robert Dillon read a missionary letter. Gifts were exchanged from a lighted tree and mystery pals were revealed. Men in the community cut wood for Pastor Rev Lynne Smith.
Pat Wellington hosted the Allegretto Music Club at his home for a Christmas music evening. Barbara Bennett gave a memory recital and won a Mrs. M. A. Welty award. Members and guests, 12 guests and 10 members, enjoyed carols directed by Mrs. R. E. Roseberry with student accompaniments. Refreshments were served by the host family.
William Lyon Phelps cites reading as mental nourishment. John Toland’s But Not in Shame profiles a pivotal Pacific War era. Mark Schorer’s Sinclair Lewis, An American Life, chronicles Lewis from birth to death with a casual, ironic tone.
The piece cites Lewis as a prime example of American literature’s pattern of early success followed by a long period of decline and deterioration both literal and moral. A Carnegie Library holiday notice follows, stating closure at noon on Saturday, Dec. 23 and reopening Tuesday morning, Dec. 26.
Maria Callas, recovering from sinus operation, delayed the first act by 30 minutes at La Scala Milan then completed the title role in Medea amid a deafening ovation from the audience.
Florida obituary notes the death of Fred Dana Marsh aged 89. He was an artist and architect father of Reginald Marsh illustrator and cartoonist and a sculptor and painter who died in 1954.
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