What to Seal in Cornerstone 1950s Satirical List
Billy Rose humorously suggests items to seal in a 1950 cornerstone for future readers. Items include a Congressional Record, $20 gold piece, pay check, New York telephone directory, a G string and lynching cord, Mule Train record, Thurber Is Sex Necessary, Time cover, Ellis Island photo, UN building photo, Kinsey Report, hydrogen balloon, Picasso print, a voting booth model and curtain.
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Billy Rose
Congressional Record
Europe
Asia
New York
Frankie Laine
Picasso
Lessons From the Light and Hope Within
A reflective piece compares years of life to a child studying and finds light in the night. It portrays Hope as a white bird singing on its nest and Fear as a crouching beast threatening it. The speaker urges patience, notes pain fades, peace arrives slowly, and sleepless nights may end with time.
Almost A Mistake The Aaron Jordan Hollywood Dream
Aaron Jordan quits advertising to write movie scenarios and moves Sally to Hollywood. After months with little money they face reality and take a job offer from Jackson to write dialogue at Pacific Coast studios. The couple jokes about money and being almost crazy as they accept the $250 starting salary.
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Aron Jordan
Chicago
Sally
Aaron
Hollywood
Joe Neal
Jordans
Nen
Pacific Coast Studios
Pacific Coast
Jackson
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS AND DOWN REFERENCE
Crossword puzzle clues listing across and down entries with varied word lengths and thematic mentions. Answers include common nouns proper nouns and abbreviations spanning categories like astronomy geography and language. The grid references interlock to form a complete puzzle solution.
Puzzle Clue Summary for Last Week’s Entries
Last week’s puzzle lists 34 Hurl 35 Monkey South America 36, Girl’s name 38, Astern as scattered clues. The brief hints tie to a wordplay grid and cross references across numbers and names. No further context available.
Hollywood Stars Weigh Career Moves and Personal Plans
Endell Corey, famed for Thelma Jordan and No Sad Songs for Me, weighs choices in Hollywood and plans homeward trip with wife. Ray Milland inherits a role Corey declined in A Life of Her Own. Cary Grant, redoing his house, uses film-era knowhow on real project.
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Thelma Jordan
Lana Turner
New York
Ray Milland
Corey
Paramount
Cary Grant
Mr. Blandings
Betsy Drake
Defense fears over atomic secrets and an alternate US capital
The piece weighs the political and national security implications after Russia. It contemplates a wartime leadership crisis if Washington were struck and an alternate capital with microfilmed records. It also profiles Federal Judge Richmond Keech, his career, and his low profile in Washington society.
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Russia
United States
Arctic Circle
Washington
FBI
Library of Congress
Richmond Reech
John L. Lewis
District of Columbia
Keech
Public Utilities Commission
D.C
Truman
White House
Maryland
McCarran Attacks Displaced Persons Panel in Senate
Nevada Senator Pat McCarran wielded secret hearings in the senate judiciary committee to smear the displaced persons commission. The sessions were held without notifying other members, described as a star chamber proceeding. He allegedly refused a hearing to allow the commission to defend itself.
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Franco
Sen
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Senate Judiciary Committee
Displaced Persons Commission
McCarran
Sew-Easy Pinafore Pattern No. 5953 Details
Sew-Easy pattern No. 5953 includes tissue pattern sizes 1 2 and 3 with material requirements sewing and finishing options and a hot iron transfer for appliqué.
Removing a chair drag mark from a finished floor
Wipe off the damaged shellac with denatured alcohol to remove the remaining coating. Apply one or two thin coats of shellac thinned about 50 percent with denatured alcohol, feathering the strokes. Results may not be perfect. for future protection, consider a penetrating wax or sealer to better hide scratches.
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Broadway
Main Street
Time Magazine
Mark IM
Harvard
Norbert Wiener
Ellis Island
U.N
First Avenue
Grace Noll Crowell
Aid
Isthmus
SE Asia
Thrash
Nobleman
Steamship
Cuckoo
Inez Gerhard
Endell Corey
Metro
Elizabeth Taylor
Good Samaritan
Church World Service, Inc
Religious Overseas Relief Agency
Wendell Corey
Senate
House
McKellar
Congress
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Salt Lake City
Kellogg's
Atton
Coco
AUDIS
America
Sewing Circle Needlework
South Wells St
Chicago 7
Roger C. Whitman
Atu
aVa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
ORA
Max N
Serlick
Portland
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Peter
Thos. Leeming & Co. Inc
Copytight
Ben-Gay Original
Baume Analgesique
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