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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1958
Page
9
A garbled horoscope page offers sign advice with many OCR errors. Aries and Gemini lines misstate dates, Capricorn and Aquarius include stray words, and overall text is fragmented with typos. The piece reads like a routine daily or weekly zodiac blurb with uncertain accuracy.
The Las Brisas resort in Acapulco features 36 swimming pools atop green hills near Las Brisas with private cottages. Juan March, settling hotel operations, plans high staff pay and strict tipping rules while courting wealthy bankers to fund expansion. The piece notes March’s bold plans to add more pools, teases social intrigue, and recalls colorful anecdotes about celebrities and events in the era.
A Senate proposal from Prescott Bush suggests a bonus to states that ban billboards along the nation’s new highway system. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas warns against raising legal barriers to freedom of expression, noting the censor can always find smut or disloyalty in attempts to curb it.
Funerals serve as the Tiwi tribesmen on Melville Island chief social and artistic outlet. Ceremonies extend for months to lay the deceased’s spirit to rest, culminating in a final ritual called pukamani.
A New York essay argues February is the worst month, breeder of cold, grudges, and gloom. It notes trees and pigeons cope better, with children cherishing winter and March promises. The piece concludes with a playful goodbye until next year.
Oswald Jacoby underscored the ace in spades. EAST and WEST opened five hearts. West passed a double threat and later faced a decision on an unusual no trump. North-South reached four spades, West doubled to salvage some, and South misplayed, going down after winning the opening diamond ace.
In a contract where South faced a tough defense after an opening lead of spades, he chose clubs at trick two. A heart lead from dummy would have limited the loss to three tricks, ensuring the rubber’s outcome favored South, but instead the defense pressured him.
An essay on child perception through doll play and a critique of mother in law jokes. It argues children reveal feelings by how they treat dolls and suggests observing them keeps adults young and wiser. It also decries routine mother in law jokes as repeating hostile views.
The list cites fog’s ground proximity, Wisconsin forest acreage, the Valican Observatory’s 1573 founding, US card usage, trout streams and lakes counts in Wisconsin, plum nutrition, dragonfly wingbeat rate, New York’s Hudson River name, San Bernardino County as largest US county, Platt National Park in Oklahoma as smallest US national park, and New Hampshire troops in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
A fragile glimpse into a young medical practitioner's mindset as he confronts mortality and personal distance from danger, admitting fear but urging closeness to the issue rather than avoidance.
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