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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
3
Pattern 280 provides a simple DIY shoe shine kit with inner compartments for polish bottles and brushes and a ventilated laundry hamper made from a four foot square of plywood. It offers an actual-size cutting guide, assembly diagrams, and a full materials list for home crafting.
The article notes widespread approval of Mr. Truman’s cabinet changes and foreign policy while radicals fault some steps. It discusses wage policy, restructuring powers, and the push for Bretton Woods, with support from Mor gen thau Rosenman Hopkins and Stettinius. It highlights division over Russia and unity to confront Japan.
Virginia Vale Oolish reviews stage and screen gossip noting Talullah Bankhead joining a Broadway play with Donald Cook Aubrey Mather and Maria Manton in her screen debut. Themes include typecasting and fanfare around Olivia de Havilland Barbara Cain Penny Singleton Barbara Cain and Jane Russell. A CBS radio show Detect and Collect debuts June 13 with Wendy Barrie and Fred Uttal offering clues and prizes.
The Andrews Sisters were voted the most popular harmony group by soldiers stationed in Ireland. John Garfield will not be drafted and Carey Wilson prepares to begin The Postman Always Rings Twice with John and Lana Turner. Paul Whiteman plans Gershwin tributes with Joan Edwards as soloist. Jimmy Carroll steps from backing to host his CBS series Jimmy Carroll Sings.
Harry Herbert, newly moved to the District of Columbia, fights endless lines and red tape in government life. He falls for O'Brien from Procurement, who helps him navigate the maze as they prepare for marriage amid the capital’s bureaucratic queues.
Mother Daughter button front dress pattern 8613 offers a scalloped two piece style for summer wear. Sizes 12 through 20 with 40 bust. yardage listed for 14 size and machine made ruffling. 8613 C covers girls sizes 3 to 8 with material and trimming requirements.
Pattern No 8855 is designed for sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20. Size 14 short sleeve requires 43 yards of 35 inch material.
Answers to a set of trivia prompts include completing a line from poetry, explaining wind patterns, naming a mythic figure with bronze claws and serpentine hair, tracing Haile Selassie’s claimed biblical lineage, giving the singular of apices, and noting Fleet Street’s fame in London.
The series lists six items: a quoted line about cleverness, a directional clue about an easterly route to the equator, Medusa, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Apex, and Newspapers.
A record book likely the biggest personal guest book lists over two million visitors who have signed in during 24 years of retirement for the famed race horse Man o War at Faraway Farms near Lexington Kentucky.
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