Summersby Memoir Recounts Ike Chauffeur Yet Loyalist Controversy
Kay Summersby recalls her service as Eisenhower’s chauffeur and secretary during World War II. She details her attachment to an American colonel, the wartime secrecy around invasion plans, and tensions with officers amid the West Point honor code. The narrative covers afternoons at embassies, blitz ambulance work, and postwar headlines.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Kay Summersby
Eisenhower
WACS
United States
Foreign Office
War Office
West Point
Miss Summersby
America
London
Post No. 1
Motor Transport Corps
U. S. Army
United States Army
Reno
Kay
North Africa
Oran
Algiers
Mark Clark
New Year's Buffet Ideas with Turkey and Waffles
A guide to elegant buffet menus for a New Year party with sliced turkey or roast beef, breads, relishes, waffles, and desserts. Includes Peppermint Stick Cake and Molded Cider Salad recipes with step by step assembly and make ahead tips for smooth service.
New Year Buffet Ideas With Cabbage Bowls And Waffles
A playful guide offers entertaining food ideas using a cabbage head as a serving bowl for a mixed salad with apples olives Swiss cheese and eggs. It suggests midnight snacks of waffles with creamed chicken or turkey and a centerpiece of fruit with decaffeinated coffee.
New Year's Dinner Menu
A New Year dinner plan features Shrimp Grapefruit Cocktail Rib Roast of Beef with Natural Gravy Yorkshire Pudding Creamed Peas Tossed Vegetable Salad Hot Rolls and a designed recipe. This menu outlines a traditional festive spread with seafood meat and side dishes.
Gingerbread men and cake for holiday entertaining
Decorate the tree with frosted gingerbread men and raisins. Serve a buffet breakfast letting guests serve themselves while you prepare a large early afternoon dinner. Bake a sponge cake cooled and glazed with apricot, then top with walnut meats for festive entertaining.
Tibetan robes to come from Deadwood pelts for Dalai Lama
The Tibetan economy mission in the United States orders white beaver pelts from Deadwood South Dakota to outfit the Dalai Lama's ceremonial robes. The pelts will be transported by mule due to lack of airfields, as Tibet boosts ties with the United States amid a Kamchatka blockade.
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Deadwood
Ss. D
Himalayas
Dalai Lama
United States
Tibet
Kamchatka Peninsula
Koko
Vatican
Lhassa
Buddha
Kamchatka
Black Hills
South Dakota
S. D
Himalayan
Pennsylvania Town Looks For Cannonball Buyers
LINESVILLE PA residents seek buyers for a dozen Civil War era cannonballs found in Crawford County. The street commissioner discovered them in Town Hall basement and they were offered at auction with the top bid of six cents apiece.
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Linesville
Crawford County
Railroad Conductors in Argentine Must Be Tough
Buenos Aires reports a heated clash between passengers and railway staff after the government barred ticket purchases aboard trains. Incidents include a passenger being knocked from a moving car, a conductor firing at a rider, and jeering crowds delaying conductors as they collect tickets.
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Argentine
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Vet Regains Speech After Coney Island Coaster Ride
Emil io Franco a 35 year old machinist and former Army private from Fairmont West Virginia spoke for the first time since 1943 after riding a mile long roller coaster at Coney Island Doctors had diagnosed hysteria ophonia an unexplained loss of speech Franco's first words upon the ride were I feel sick breaking a five year silence after the dizzy ride triggered a sudden vocal outburst.
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New York
Coney Island
Emilio Franco
Franco
Fairmont
W. Va
To Avenge Parrot Death Owner Tries to Shoot Cat
In Middletown Connecticut Charles Nixon aimed at a cat after his parrot Texas was killed. He paid a five dollar fine in court and said it was worth it. The cat survived with many scars and returned home.
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Middletown
Conn
Charles Nixon
Raffles
Nixon
Texas
Sewing Circle Patterns Dainty Pajamas for Tiny Girls
Pattern No. 1835 offered by Sewing Circle for girls sizes 2 to 8. Size 4 requires 2 1/2 yards of 36 inch fabric.
Best Time to Stop Rodent Losses Is Before Storage
The best time to prevent losses by rats and mice in farm storage is just prior to storing produce. Before storing vegetables apples or other farm produce clean the storage room inside and out. Check windows doors ventilators and floor drains to prevent rodent travel. Farmers should remove lumber piles broken boxes tall grass weeds and refuse from around the storage building.
Gift idea for smokers the Camel and Prince Albert way
A holiday gift guide suggests Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco as affordable, mass market presents. It highlights Camel cartons with 200 cigarettes and notes festive wrappings plus space for a handwritten Merry Christmas message. Urges readers to tell their dealer to reserve a gift quota now for ready pickup.
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