Place-Dropping: A Gay Little Sport In Social Circles
Washington columnist Dick West narrates a tongue in cheek piece on place dropping a game of listing places visited for points. He cites Monaco Hyannis Port Venezuelo and Old Rag Mountain as examples and notes victories by Myron Glaser for remote fashion and rare places. He warns wartime travel is poor form and teases a future expedition to Old Rag Mountain.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Monaco
Samarkand
Hyannis Port
Venezuela
Myron Glaser
Washington Daily News
Glaser
Chukker
Old Rag Mountain
IRS accused of discrimination over business dialogue settings
Washington officials faced criticism at a hearing on new IRS travel and entertainment deduction rules. Critics from hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other businesses argue that hunting, yachting, or fishing are common venues for business talk and should count for deductions. IRS rules emphasize restaurant settings but bar loud distractions and flashy performances.
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Washington
IRS
Times
Niagara Falls
Working wives share up 100 percent since 1940
Willis H. Edmund of Goodyear told the 69th Illinois Federation of Woman's Clubs convention that among a record 23 million women workers today more than 12 million are married and living with husbands, noting the doubling of working wives since 1940.
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Chicago
UPI
Willis H. Edmund
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Illinois Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Mobile home parks host about four million residents nationwide
An estimated four million people live in roughly sixteen thousand mobile home parks across the United States, reflecting the widespread use of manufactured housing as a housing option.
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United States
Queen’s Windsor castle builds nuclear shelter in dungeon
Royal sources say Windsor Castle workmen are fashioning a fortified shelter from its dungeons, possibly for a queen. Palace whispers note daily worker visits, while Windsor’s fortress history underscores its wartime refuge role.
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London
UPI
Windsor Castle
Windsor
White House Medal of Honor recipients honored at Kennedy reception
President Kennedy hosted a White House rose garden reception honoring 234 living Medal of Honor winners, part of 293 alive. Veterans from World War I to Korea and Spanish-American War era attended, sharing memories as Carline and John F. Kennedy Jr. watched from the balcony.
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UPI
Kennedy
White House
U. S
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Columbia
S.C
Caroline
John F. Kennedy Jr
Catholic physician urges massive NIH fertility program
Dr. John Rock, Harvard gynecology emeritus and pill co-developer, urged NIH to create at least 10 major fertility research centers. He linked Catholic concerns with overpopulation to support for enhanced research into reliable natural methods and warned funding is too low. A nutrition panel later said expanding cultivated land and farmer education could feed three to four times the current population with heavy investment.
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UPI
National Institutes of Health
NIH
John Rock
Harvard
Planned Parenthood Federation
Rock
Pius XII
Man Who Threatened President Sentenced
SPARTANBURG SOUTH CAROLINA A veteran of all four armed forces has been sentenced to one year in prison for threatening President Kennedy in a series of letters. Wirdell H. Willingham 33 of Winnsboro wrote to the President seeking aid to reenlist and warned he would act if not heard. An agent arrested him last September and psychiatrists found him sane and capable of execution. Willingham served in the Marine Corps Air Force Navy and Army under different names within six years.
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UPSD
Kennedy
Wirdell H. Willingham
Winnsboro
Secret Service
Willingham
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Air Force
Navy
Army
Six Die In Atlantic Coast Shipyard Mishaps
United Press International reports three separate incidents Tuesday killed six workers and injured at least one. At Gibbs Shipyard Jacksonville a fire in an oil tanker hold killed three men and burned another. at Groton the atomic submarine Flasher suffered a fatal fire killing three and injuring two. in New York Harbor the Dutch vessel Pinta sank after collision with the British freighter City of Perth, with the captain and 21 crew escaping in two lifeboats.
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United Press International
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Gibbs Shipyard
Jacksonville
Fla
St. John’s River
Groton
Conn
General Dynamics Electric Boat Yard
General Dynamics Electric Boat Yard Came Less Than A Month After the Thresher
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Three Officials Confirmed For New Terms In State
(CHARLESTON UP I) Gov W W Barron won quick Senate approval for three reappointments during a 10 minute closed door session. Clement R Bassett as State Employment Security Director, Carl B Early as State Banking Commissioner, and William P C Perry as Racing Commission member were confirmed for new terms.
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UPI
W. W. Barron
State Senate
Clement R. Bassett
Welch
Carl B. Early
Racing Commission
William P. C. Perry
Charles Town
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