Easter Season Parade Showcases Camera Fans and Fashions
Irving Desfor surveys spring photography culture as families plan Easter action shots and florists spark ideas for color slides. The piece previews how to capture motion, timing, depth, and background, plus news from Chicago shows on automatic slide projectors, home movie kits, and stereo camera trends from Kodak Wollensak TDC and Director Products.
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Martha
Dudley
Chicago
Revere
Bell & Howell
Kodak
Wollensak
TDC
Director
Stamps news on new 8 cent Liberty issue and royal NZ stamps
News briefs cover two printing methods for the 8 cent Statue of Liberty stamp with first day sale set in Washington. New Zealand issues a 14 stamp royal visit set featuring Elizabeth II in various poses. Additional items note Chicago philatelic events, Denmark’s 200th anniversary stamp, and French Morocco air mail issues from 1953.
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Elizabeth
Prince Philip
New Zealand
New York ‘Stamp Co
Elizabeth Regina II
Chicago
Austin Philatelic Club
Middle West
Farouk
Palace Collections
Egypt
Denmark
Danish Royal Arts Academy
Frederick V
Academy
Morocco
L'Acdol-Meknes
Rabat
Casablanca
Fedala
Best Seller List Highlights Notable Titles
A snapshot of fiction and nonfiction picks shows Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson Sayonata by James A Michener Lord Vanity by Samuel Shella barger The High and the Mighty by Ernest K Gann Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes. Nonfiction includes The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale The Second Tree from the Corner by E B White But We Were Born Free by Elmer Davis The Conquest of Everest by Sir John Hunt Life Is Worth Living by Fulton J Sheen.
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Morton Thompson
James A. Michener Lord Vanity
Samuel Shellabarger
Ernest K. Gann
Esther
Norman Vincent Peale
E. B. White
Elmer Davis
Everest
Sir John Hunt
Fulton J. Sheen
Tune Up For Health Belly Flattener
A health tip urges regular meals and relaxed eating to aid digestion. The week's exercise focuses on abdominal engagement to flatten the belly, performed after waking. Sit, count engaging abdominal muscles, then relax, repeat sixteen times, increasing tension slightly each rep. Next week features Belly Massage.
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United States
Seed Upon the Wind and Kings Vixen Reviewed as Books
A mixed book-note review discusses William Michelfelder’s A Seed Upon the Wind a Catholic hospital drama of faith, guilt, and tragedy and Pamela Hill’s The Kings Vixen a Scottish historical novel about James IV’s mistress Janet with sharp sexual content. It notes rival characters, moral conflict, and the author’s engagement with religious themes, while adding brief author background on Michelfelder.
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William Michelfelder
Bobbs-Merrill
Florida
Andrew Carew
Carew
Dr. Andreozzi
Snavely
Agnes
Marjorie Butler
Dr. Carew
Marjorie
T. S. Eliot
Pamela Hill
Putnam's
Scotland
James IV
Janet
Fragmented prose reviews of novels and New York Times Book Review selections
A string of memoirish and literary critique snippets covers Devil By The Tail by Rocco Fumento and a New American Library Mentor volume from New York Times Book Review. It notes quirky characters, cultural contrasts, and editorial curation by Francis Brown with mentions of Kronenberger Krutch Auden Mann and others. Ohio is an Iroquois word meaning great.
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New American Library
Francis Brown
Book Review
Kronenberger
Krutch
Auden
Mann
Pritchett
Commager
Nevins
Morley
Ohio
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Charles L. Kafer
Mansfield
BY Syd Kronish
Street Club
Forbes
Jack Pobuk
Laurence Thompson
Julian Messner
Gadein
Abu Butan
Brooklyn
Fordham
Columbia
Boston Evening American
New Brunswick
N.J
Daily Home News
Sunday Times
New York World-Telegram
Sun
Stamford
Conn
Fight Cancer
Rocco Fumento
McGraw-Hill
Carrillo
Discom
Gamento
Big Boys
Boys & Girls Shoes
Robin Hood
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