Lavish gift books of 1976 celebrate visual splendor
A gilted list of deluxe gift books in 1976 highlights lavish covers and strong images. Notable titles include Favorite Haunts by Addams, Do You Want To Talk About It by Koren, Whole House Catalog, The World of Sail Training, and compilations from Harper, Viking, and Abrams. The piece notes price ranges, publishers, page counts, and later shifts in value with limited editions and exciting art volumes.
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N. Y
Calvin Trillin
Pantheon
New Yorker
Addams
Karen
Whole House
Consumer Guide
Simon & Schuster
Old House
Lawrence Grow
Main Street’ Universe
Whole Earth
Southeast
Suba
Maurice Horn
Chelsea House
Captain Marvel
Fred MacMurray
Wilhelm Busch
Max Und Moritz
R. W. Burchfield
Oxford
Silver Belles honors Elaine Mims and Ceci Hensley
The Service League of Chaves County names Elaine Mims and Ceci Hensley as Silver Belles for December. Both seniors at local high schools hold multiple honors roles and plan college majors in nursing and speech pathology respectively.
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Service League
Chaves County
Elaine Mims
Ceci Hensley
Miss Mims
Roswell High School
Joyce Mims
706
S. Fruitland
Commedia Players
RHS
Vocational- Industrial Clubs of American
Mims
el Coyote
West Texas State University
Miss Hensley
Goddard High School
Harold Hensley
Chrysler Drive
Burlap Bookcase Makes Cinder Blocks Look Stylish
Hint from Heloise describes wrapping interior cinder blocks with burlap for a chic, inexpensive bookcase. The tip includes a cardboard wrap, glued burlap, folded edges, and ironing for a smooth finish, shared by John McDonald and credited to Heloise.
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John
John McDonald
How to cash in on the rare plate boom in 1976
Northbrook based Bradford Exchange director Roderick MacArthur promotes a free report on collecting rare porcelain plates with rising value. He cites examples where a $25 plate in 1965 now sells for $1,750 and a $9.75 plate from 1969 brings $440. Readers are urged to mail name, address, and zip to receive the no obligation offer before December 18, 1976.
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Northbrook
Chicago
Roderick MacArthur
Bradford Exchange
MacArthur
Bradford Place
Ilinois
Dear Abby: Overlook faults from a handyman husband
A reader explains her husband is a non handy man who dislikes tools yet loves her. Abby advises loving his virtues while hiring a handyman and ignoring faults. Also notes a daughter’s kosher kitchen question and a teen’s aversion to kissing with a call for professional help.
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Abby
Bell choir shines at DAR meet in Roswell
Roswell Chapter DAR held a Christmas music program by the First Methodist Church Bell Choir. Chaplain Mrs. Robert P Kirk led a memorial service for Mildred Warren Tillman. Mrs. Joseph Hammond III announced the LDS Church genealogical library will be open 20 hours weekly starting January. A letter from the New Mexico Bicentennial Committee acknowledged the chapter’s donation, My Life at Elk, New Mexico, and Reminiscences of Dorothy Norton.
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Roswell
Daughters of the American Revolution
First Methodist Church Bell Choir
Robert P Kirk
Mildred Warren Tillman
Joseph Hammond III
Genealogical Library
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints
New Mexico
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Maldwin Drummond
Mike Willoughby
the Duke of Edinburgh
Putnam's
New York City
People of
Kay
Leni Riefenstah
J. Maxwell Brownjohn
Harper & Row
Calder
Jean Lipman
Ruth Wolfe
Viking Studio Whitney Museum
the Whitney
Tre Truckere
E. Cagner
Frank T. Moss
Crown
Edward C. Migdalski
George S. Fichter
Norman Weaver Knopf
West Coast
J F. Lansdowne
S. Dillon Ripley
Houghton Mifflin
Lansdowne
Birds of America
David Lidman
H. Landshoff
Abrams
Hermitage
Pierre Descargues
National Gallery of Art
John Walker
J. Carter Brown
Georgia O’keeffe
Viking Studio
E. Mims
C. Hensley
Heloise
Heloise II
Janet S
Phyllis van der Wal
Berrana
Cereel
Elna
Pfaff
Bernina
Discol
Authen
Rosa
Patterson
Ast Primm Drug Store
Bell Choir
DAR Meet
Advent
Jack Gray
Bible Row
1St
United Methodist Church
Pennsylvania
Texas
New Mexico State Optical
New Mexico State Optical, Inc
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