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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1950
Page
13
Advice for women on achieving slender ankles through exercise and posture. Emphasizes spinal alignment, high kicking exercises, and daily routines to reduce ankle fat. Recommends darker stockings and certain shoe styles to create a slimming effect.
Miss Mary Ahn Tucker, from Texas University, is newly elected president of Tri Delta sorority. Miss Mary Louw Chad Alek, also from this city, is named the sorority’s new state fast captain. Mrs. Ted Clifton visiting her parents Col and Mrs. R.N. Bodine plans to return to Washington February 1 after arriving December 1 and joining Col. Clifton for the holidays.
Miss Virginia Haile of Gulfport Mississippi visits Los Angeles staying several days at the St Anthony hotel representing Gulf Park college.
Monday events include Miss Sally Warnsworth and Miss Janell Crain engagement celebration at a Mexican restaurant and a home party for Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Olsen in Rochester. Tuesday features Mrs. Henry Catto hosting a luncheon for Miss Agnes Clegg ary and Mrs. W. C. Clegg Jr. and Miss Thelma Baums.
Sunday event at the Cosnouse of La Villita honored debutante Betty Sue Stacy. Attendees included German club honorees, escorts, parents, and sponsor, with about 100 friends attending cocktails and a red centerpiece at the serving table.
Meni in Mex offers a pockety casual pattern for spring with a deep bloused bodice and pleated skirt. Pattern 9306 comes in many sizes and requires 334 yards for size 16. send twenty five cents to Marian Martin at The San Antonio Light for the complete Sew Chart and pattern, plus fifteen cents for the Marian Martin Pattern Book.
Fifteen year old Joan Evans, admired for Judy Garland looks, lands the title role in Roseanna McCoy after no prior acting experience. She hails from New York and Wisconsin, comes from media-connected parents, and balances charity work with a rising screen career.
The article outlines infant sleep positions and gradual head shape adjustments, noting tummy sleeping becomes preferred around four months. It stresses feeding by taste, nonforceful acceptance of foods, and introducing new tastes gradually. It also mentions a leaflet No. 35 on Poor Appendices and lists hospital auxiliary officers and autopsy views.
Cadets from Peacock and Texas Military academies and Thomas Jefferson High students will usher for Lite Theater's Blithe Spirit at San Pedro Playhouse. Monday ushers include Cadets John Gill and others. Tuesday Jefferson students Irving Fisher and others. Wednesday TM cadets David Brown and peers assist.
The Alton FE and the Robertsons bought a ranch along the Guadalupe River near Highway 281. They plan a redwood ranch house with oak setting and several fireplaces for weekends and vacations. Maxine Smith won the first Marjorie Darrick Memorial scholarship at Texas U, as a senior journalism student and sorority president. Art Jones Jr returns to Emporium Pa then to Philadelphia for TV equipment work and joins San Antonio students there. Time magazine notes the Urschels aboard a Great African cruise in two super suites. Harold Van derbilt hosts the other in New York.
Mrs James Green arrives in New York City and will travel to Los Angeles for a visit with her sister Mrs Elizabeth Bayton. She returns home after her stay, scheduled to begin Thursday night.
A large Del Rio group traveled Sunday to Del Rio for the annual Diocese of Texas meeting and a fuel meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary in the West Texas diocese. Attendees included Rev. Evereyth Jones and Rev. Sam Capers among others and Mrs. Jack Foster presiding.
Mr and Mrs Walter McAlister will host a buffet supper at 7 30 p m Tuesday to honor Mr and Mrs James Smith. Mrs Smith is the former Miss Tommie Lou Ziegiers. The note mentions Dagwaad and a Dithers encounter in a weekly color comic magazine.
Mirror of Your Mind quotes Dr. Arthur W. Foxe on choosing a spouse with background and goals. Danish researchers E Asmussén and Rose report that drugs such as alcohol caffeine cocaine strychnine and nitroglycerin do not noticeably boost strength or endurance in fatigue tested men on a bicycle ergometer.
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