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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1972
Page
7
Barry Christensen, a veteran funeral director, discusses confronting death daily, guiding families through legal paperwork, service planning, and the grieving process. He notes varied reactions, from shock to relief, and argues society relies on dignified ceremonies to ease grief, with a shift from gloom to comforting beauty in memorials. Wednesday: A psychiatrist speaks.
Paris UPI reports Elsa Schiaparelli, once the world's best dressed, earned 5000 pounds for a town while ruling haute couture. She built a fashion empire from instinct, employing 350 in Paris, with lines in perfume, stockings, fabrics and hats. Now a dowager in Paris and New York, she critiques modern fashions as a cult of ugliness.
Elizabeth Perry of Long Beach announces the engagement of her granddaughter Debra Jean Hartzell to Stanley Warren Edwards of Long Beach. Nancy McCarty and Larry Morse plan marriage in March, with Nancy McCarty the daughter of Artesia couple Mr. and Mrs. Dick McCarty. Cecelia Marie Rubino of San Pedro set to wed Nicholas Sean Bonness, son of San Pedro residents, with a June 17 wedding. Marilyn Louise Richardson of Long Beach to wed Robert D. Chandler of Whitier, with a June 10 date planned.
Humor columnist Erma Bombeck recounts a chaotic household battle with a roaming hamster and a desert of pets including a stubborn lizard and an arthritic goldfish. The piece mixes family anecdotes, domestic chaos, and light self mockery as a mother confronts the tiny rebel.
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