Blood Bank Shame Calls on American Women
Kathleen Norris laments that afterwar memory and public duty require American women to donate blood. She recalls a club luncheon where 12 of 13 young women had not given blood and urges immediate action, warning soldiers may be embittered if donors remain absent. The piece urges widespread moral accountability, questions of wartime sacrifice, and a public push to wear an emblem signaling donation versus neglect.
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Guadalcanal
Blood Drives Demand Continual Donations to Save War Wounded
The Red Cross urges ongoing blood plasma and whole blood donations as battle intensity rises. Despite lower wartime death rates, only three percent of wounded die now versus six to seven percent in the previous war. Home-front giving often falters after victories. officials plead for sustained generosity to blood banks and plasma supplies.
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Red Cross
Decorating with Pictures for Framing and Display
The guidance suggests hanging pictures at eye level if possible without cards showing and flat against the wall. Place a substantial piece of furniture under an important picture. Assemble family photographs in simple frames in large groups in the bedroom and ensure the framing store can handle signed pictures without excessive trimming.
Radio and film stars mix in summer plans and trivia
APSA and Georgia Gibbs shift into summer radio roles with Paul Whitman on the Blue Network. Don DeFore returns to Cedar Rapids for church drama, joined by family. Notables like Eddie Sutherland and George Marshall are cited alongside Gig Young, Harriet O Rourke, and Ingrid Bergman rumors. Felix Mills threads through The Man Called X. ODDS AND ENDS notes Kate Smith book project, Frankie Carle letter, Gertrude Astor in The Fighting Guardsman, Johnny Mack Brown touring, and Ozzie Nelson’s film listing.
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Don DeFore
Paramount
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Sinclair Memorial Church
Kate Smith
Frankie Carle
Columbia
Fighting Guardsman
Gertrude Astor
Thomas Meighan
Abou
Johnny Mack Brown
Monogram
Ozzie Nelson
Ozzie and Harriet
CBS
Two Smart Suits From One Pattern
Pattern 909 offers a transfer pattern to make two smart suits from one template. It includes 2 bibs pockets and all necessary pieces for sizes 1 through 4. Send your order to the provided address.
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Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
Blood Bank
Americcan
Medical Corps
Marcia
Jean
Germany
Aschaffenburg
Duren
Hitle
Roer
Wesel
Rhine
Limburg
Eitburg
Okinawa
Japan
Commodore Perry
United States
Meiji
Grand Meiji Shrine
Imperial Palace of Japan
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Pacific Ocean
Pats
H. E. Erwin
Bessemer
Ala
Josiah E. Greene
Washington, Conn
MacMillan
Italy
Albert “Happy” Chandler
U. S
Kentucky
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Crar
Western Newspaper Union
Virginia Vale Adio
Paul Whitman
Blue Network
Mack Sennett
Chester Conklin
Eddie Sutherland
RKO
Conklin
George Marshall
William Seiter
Frank Lloyd
Gig Young
Warner Bros
Coast Guard
South Pacific
Obringer
Roy Obringer
Warners
Harriet O'Rourke
Steel Horizons
Sammy
Harriet
Charles Boyer
Jerry Wayne
In the
Joan Roberts
Marinka
Dinah Shore
Dinah
Hollywood
Ingrid Bergman
Alfred Hitchcockt
David O. Selznick
Hitchcock
Ben Hecht
New York
Selznick
Miss Bergman
Felix Mills
Bob Hope
Georgia Gibbs
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
San Francisco
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