Why Do We Smoke It Stamps the Experts
A column reviews Britain and America’s smoking research as the National Health Service campaigns against cigarettes. It notes doctors’ smoking rates, teen initiation factors, parental influence, and the difficulty in uncovering why people start and continue smoking. The piece finds smoking a scientific mystery beyond straightforward causation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Pickering
Heavet Hendie
Service Medical Weiler Gndoners
National Health Service
Britain
Middlesex
Tari
Horn
Hom
Z. D. Matarazzo
G. Saslaw
Venus
Bugs Baer Still a Homburg By ARTHUR BUGS
A satirical piece mocks light conservatives with absurd image cues and wordplay. It references outdated phrasing, slash politics, and caricatures, noting a self described conservative identity through jokes about attire, behavior, and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Bugs
Iear Spadtatta
Hese
Homburg
Young Americans Critique Soviet Youth in Moscow Visit
Members of the Young Adult Council from 28 U S organizations visited Moscow to challenge Soviet youth neglect of American life, defend the Peace Corps, and condemn Communist dominated youth festivals. Franke Crump of Philadelphia pressed for debate and criticism as a troubling sign in the Soviet system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Adult Council
U.S
Peace Corps
From Around the Plaza Chronology and Local Notes
The fragment recalls historic Plaza items from 1902 to 1923 including a Christmas tree display at Alamo Plaza praised as cedar forest beauty and a drunken St Nicholas impersonator drawing crowds. It notes naturalization in 1952 and a 1912 railroad commission appeal over gas rates, plus a secretary of state search for electors and a two evening dressmaking effort by Marga Wick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deg
Marga
Alamo. Plaza
Christmastide Faith in a Pagan World
United Press International argues keeping Christ in Christmas is hard as modern customs pull attention to shopping gifts and social rituals. The piece recalls how early Christians Christianized pagan December celebrations and urges reforming gift giving cards and hospitality to reflect true spirit, urging personal transformation through faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Christ
Pat
Tman Ely
Tie
Ile
Ani
Min
Reader letters debate radio and TV ads and local history mix
A fragmented reader exchange discusses radio and TV commercials, mislocates The Hermitage near Nashville, and questions modern media and public taste. Names include W Brown T’suta Sam Sellers Maud Bes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T'suta
Tiny
J. Sellers
Bethlehem of the Spirit by Elialon J Sheen
In this essay the author contrasts the historical birth of Christ with a personal spiritual birth in the soul. He argues two Bethlehem births shape history and inner life, one public and epochal, the other inward and transformative, urging readers to welcome the divine visitor into the heart despite pride, greed, or fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Christ
Caesar
Napoleon
Lincoln
Buddha
God
Bey
Bellehem
Herod
St. Paul
Aleeper
Mary
Heracd
Bethleheny
Nat
Utis
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American Career Society
E. C. Hammond
Daniel Norn
Hammond
Envith
Bugs Baer
Moscow
NCE
Franke Crump
Philadelphia
Crump & Co
The
San Antonio Light
United States
W. A. Keeling
Federal District Court
Austin
Jane Y. McCallum
R. T. Wilkinson
J. W. Purcell
Robert. Cunningham
N. @. Outaw
Railroad Commission
St. Nicholas
Alano Plaza
Louis Cassees
Europe
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Nashville
Tenn
Virginia
W. Brown
Wrdme
Laafrs Maud Bes
By Elialon J. Sheen
Herod and the Shepherds
Sween
Metis
Tocerst
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