Thought For Today Pride and Presidents in 68th Birthdays
The article notes Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 68th birthday and compares ages of past presidents, including Jackson Buchanan Harrison and Taft. It discusses pensions for ex leaders, Pius XII’s death and legacy, and urges peaceful world values, interfaith respect, and personal conduct.
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Dwight David Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson
White House
James Buchanan
William Henry Harrison
Eisenhower
Denison
Tex
Stingy Husbands Spur Marriage Help Plan
Alice R aged 29 wife of engineer John contends he resents praise and won't seek counseling citing weakness. A joint interview with Dr Crane outlines a 90 day plan to rebuild their love life, urging wives to seek reassurance through advice seeking and small affectionate gestures.
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Alice R
John
Crane
Scrooge
Silas Marner
Kinsey
Alice
America
Dr Cane
Marlboro Class of 1948 Reunion Shows Dull Record
Hal Boyle notes Marlboro College Class of 1948 filed the most negative alumni report in history after ten years. No births, deaths, marriages, divorces, or notable achievements. members show aging, a single car, and modest living. Only one attendee, the narrator, remains. Face-Saving Important.
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Pius XII
Pope Pius XII
Right
Vatican
George W Crane
Hal Boyle
Marlboro College
Hugh A. Mulligan
Marlboro
Kim Novak
Sixth Avenue
Casserole College
Marlboro College Class of 1948 Beats All Labels
A memoir recounts Marlboro College opening in 1947 on a Vermont hillside with a small freshman class and no seniors until the author joined as a senior after service in Europe. The lone graduate earns multiple class superlatives including valedictorian poet athlete and most likely to succeed.
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Weill
Marlboro College
Vermont
Biarritz
France
Marlboro
Military Talk Triggers U S China Policy Tension
A Associated Press analysis notes that public military comments upset State Department officials amid the China crisis. Quarles and Dulles warn against statements with political overtones as Gen. Kuter’s remarks on air victories and cease-fire spark concern. Focus shifts to preserving a delicate modus vivendi and preventing a broader confrontation in the Formosa Strait.
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Warren Rogers JR
Associated Press
Washington
U. S
Red China
State Department
Pentagon
Dulles
Defense
Quarles
Pacific
U. S. Pacific
Laurence S. Kuter
U.S
Formosa Strait
Kuter
Tokyo
China
Department
Ex-Beckleyan Matt Warren Writes Lent Book Series Advance
The Rev Matthew Madison Warren, former Beckley High student and headmaster at St. Pauls School Concord NH, will see his first book The Slow of Heart published by Harper Brothers in January 1959 as part of a Lenten series. Warren’s career spans rector roles in Shepherdstown Philadelphia Macon and Atlanta, culminating in his 1951 move to St. Pauls. Bashia Hamilton notes a mistaken belief in a crazy world and praises plastics’ rise from early cellulose nitrate to modern melamine dinnerware, highlighting wartime and postwar utility.
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Matthew Madison Warren
Harper & Brothers
New York City
Matthew M. Warren
Beckleyan
St. Paul's School
Concord
N. H
Beckley High School
Matt Warren
West Virginia University
Warren
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
Shepherdstown
Philadelphia
Macon
Columbia University
St. Louis
Rev. Warren
All Saints Church
Atlanta
England
Columbia
Henry C. Kittredge
Concord School
Beckley
Bashia Hamilton
Siberia
John Wesley Myatt
Hir
Army
U. S. Navy
China Service
Navy
Beckley News AvNext Subscription Terms Clarified
The notice outlines mailing options and rates for home delivery by carrier or distributor daily and Sunday, with weekly and monthly pricing. It states carriers, dealers, and distributors act as independent contractors and the corporation cannot assume responsibility for advance subscription payments.
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Beckley News @avers Corporation
Pretzel origins traced to monks in 610
A Junior Editors feature notes the pretzel was developed in a monastery kitchen around 610 where dough scraps were twisted into a prayer symbol called pretiola. The treat spread from the Alps to Austria, became marriage feast fare in the Middle Ages, and a German girl in a pretzel bakery is pictured.
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Eward
Alps
Austria
New Eating Champion Earl Wilson Delights Sardi's Crowd
New York gossip piece highlights 19-year-old Miss France Nuyen as the eating champion in a Sardi's showcase. The article traces her hunger-fueled rise from wartime hardship in France to Hollywood and Broadway, noting her appetite, destiny, and plans for college while detailing other nightlife anecdotes and celebrity mentions.
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New York
France Nuyen
Peter Lind Hayes
France
Josh Logan
Suzie Wong
Mellon
America
52Nd St
Hell’s Kitchen
Lauren Bacall
Adolph Green
Ill Confederate veteran Elias Hatfield ill at home in Logan County
The Raleigh Register notes Elias Hatfield, a respected Confederate veteran and famed bear hunter, is very ill at his Logan County home. The piece recalls his long bear chase across Mingo and Logan counties and a historic bear capture. It also mentions C. D. Ross partnering with James R. Shaggin in a Daniels store and John Stewart losing the thumb while chopping a chicken’s head.
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Elias Hatfield
Logan County
Mingo
Logan Counties
Daniels
C. D. Ross
James R. Shaggin
John Stewart
West Virginia reforestation camps to use WV lumber
Congressman Joe L. Smith announced efforts to build winter reforestation camps in West Virginia with locally sourced lumber rather than Southern pine. Two 1,100 horsepower engines drive generators powering the Lillybrook mine. Marriage licenses issued to Hulbert Meadows and Eva Smith Beckley, Fred Penn and Florence Steptoe Winding Gulf, Thomas Kincaid Maple Fork and Ethel Evans Maynor, Robert Blackstock and Esther Steels Abney.
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Joe L. Smith
West Virginia
Lillybrook
Hulbert Amos Meadows
Eva Yvonne Smith
Beckley
Fred Andrew Penn
Florence Steptoe
Winding Gulf
Thomas Samuel Kincaid
Maple Fork
Ethel Evans
Maynor
Robert Blackstock
Esther Steels
Abney
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Netherlands
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