Rainbow Special dress sparks a wife's quiet defiance
In a shop window fantasy, Erma, a tired restaurant waitress, tries on a bright Rainbow Special dress to please her artist husband Tom who is blind. The scene reveals a marriage built on sacrifice and a wife's struggle with love, aging, and hope as his sight shows faint improvement.
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Madame Bruce
Mady Clark
Mady
Tom
Erma
Ernie
Arma
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Education On Thrift To Be 1948 Project
Nebraska schools will join a broad thrift and investment education program to begin in 1948. Led by Peru State Teachers College president William L. Nicholas, the initiative is sponsored by the U S Savings Bonds Advisory Committee for Nebraska. Planning meeting in Lincoln on December 11 included educators from the State Superintendent’s office, NES, UN, and county and city superintendents.
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Nebraska
William L. Nicholas
Peru State Teachers’ College
School Savings Committee
U. S. Savings Bonds Advisory Committee
Nicholas
Lincoln
America
Leland R. Hall
Treasury
U. S. Savings Bonds Division
Nebraska Educational Association
University of Nebraska
Harlem River Opens First Amateur Swimming Championship
The first amateur open swimming championship was held on September 30 1877 on the Harlem River in New York City drawing participants from local clubs and spectators to witness early competitive swimming events.
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Harlem River
New York City
Transit observer Ma nasseh Cutler first Venus observer
A historical note identifies Ma nasseh Cutler as the first American astronomer to observe the transit of Venus. Born in Killingly, Connecticut, on May 13, 1742, he later became the first white man to reach the summit of Mount Washington in 1784.
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Manasseh Cutler
Killingly
Conn
Mt. Washington
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