Toastmasters Club Growth and Global Reach
A 79 year old founder leads Toastmasters International as it expands from 250 to 2500 clubs in 12 years. The nerve center in Santa Ana mails three million materials annually to clubs worldwide, with 4,500 members in 180 clubs overseas. Clubs meet weekly with each member speaking, fostering clearer communication and self improvement.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Ralph C. Smedley
Toastmasters Club
YMCA
Bloomington, Ill
Toastmasters International
Greenland
Hong Kong
South Africa
Scotland
Ted Blanding
Blanding
Dalip
Jacqueline Cochran Odlum
Congress
Los Alamos
N. M
Aoming
Trotsky's Widow Lives In Terror In Mexico City
Natalia Sedova Trotsky, 75, widow of Leon Trotsky, lives behind fortress walls in Mexico City seven years after his assassination. Her fear centers on her grandson Serve Sedova and his family, as she avoids testifying before the House Un American Activities Committee during a recent U.S. visit.
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Mexico City
INS
Leon Trotsky
Natalia Selova Trotsky
Stalin
Trotsky
Red Army
Leon
Serge
Alexandra Sokolovskaya
Zina
Nina
Sedova
Hiroshima Maidens Rebuild Lives After U S Surgery
Suzue Oshima now runs Darien Beauty Shop near Hiroshima as part of a broader effort by the 25 Hiroshima maidens who traveled to New York in 1955 for plastic surgery. Five work, three remarried, others study or stay home as they plan a life center for dressmaking and social welfare work with ongoing contact to their American sponsors.
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Suzue Oshima
New York
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Suzue
Hiroshima
Norman Cousins
The
Saturday Review
Tomoko Nakabayashi
Yoshie Harada
Yoshie
Toso Yanagibashi
U. S
Toso
Darien
Mitsuko Kuramoto
Mitsuko
California
America
Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Nagarekawa
Tanimoto
Emory University
Atlanta
Seuss and Curley Book Assessments Highlight 1950s Works
Dr. Seuss's upcoming titles including If I Ran the Circus and The Cat in the Hat are praised for engaging beginners with a 223 word vocabulary and humorous illustrations. James Michael Curley at 82 reflects on his political rise in I’d Do It Again, an irreverent memoir detailing immigrant roots and early local politics.
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New York
Theodore Seuss Geise
Dr. Seuss
la Jolla
California
Jett
Random House
Big Seuss
Seuss
Johnny
James Michael Curley
Santa Claus
Curley
Prentice Hall
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Queen Elizabeth II
Brigade of Guards
Horse Guards Parade
U.S
Hiroshima Peace Center
Tanimoto's Church
Keiko Kawasaki
Fukuya Department Store
Keiko
Tadako Emori
Michiko Yamaoka
Michiko
By Kay Barrington
Quick Henry
Gerald McBeing
Germany
Japan
War Department
Charles Dickens
the Capri
Aece
Hérg
JIM Walter Corp
Walter Built Homes
Tamiami Trail
Ringling
Bee Ridge Rd
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