Vacation preferences mixed across readers and regions
Inquiries find varied tastes with responses from Joanne Dederick Barbara Seigle Mary Nancy Bars and Pinky Smith favoring summer winter and fall vacations. A recital by Sidney Novak and notices of MacDowell Colony funds for American composers plus related regional anecdotes fill the column.
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Joanne Dederick
Oakwood Ave
War Memorial
Barbara Seigle
McBride Sr
Lake Placid
Ike Takes Paper Work to Farm for Bills Action
President Eisenhower leaves for Gettysburg farm to study and act on bills passed by Congress. He will remain there most of next week with a brief Washington return, then head to Denver around August 14 or 15 for a longer vacation. Mrs. Eisenhower accompanies him today and will stay until he returns to address the American Bar Association in Philadelphia August 24.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Congress
White House
Denver
American Bar Assa
Philadelphia
Atom Powered Dirigibles Seen Return To Atlantic Air
In Frankfurt Germany skipper Max Prass of the ill fated Hindenburg predicts giant dirigibles will return to Atlantic air travel. He believes atomic engine powered airships will soon enable transatlantic travel and that the dirigible will be the first aircraft to use atomic propulsion due to its weight carrying capability.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Uwmax Prass
Even Newer Car Speedometers Off
Boston report says speedometers on newer cars often read slow, causing drivers to speed unknowingly. Robert S. Kretschmar of the American Automobile Association urges annual checks, noting many speedometers drift after 15 000 to 18 000 miles.
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Boston
Robert S. Kretschmar
American Automobile Assn
Massachusetts
Kretschmar
GI in Korea Gets Wrong Ballot
In Lexington Kentucky a deployed private, Robert L. Clay, hoped to vote for his father in the Republican primary but received a Democratic absentee ballot from Korea. Deputy clerk Hugh Buckley, a Democrat, says the mix up was clerical and that Clay’s father sought the GOP nomination.
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Lexington
Robert L. Clay
Korea
Clay
Pertereaye
Hugh’ Buckley
Bureau of the Bud- Ret Way Organization Grows in 1939
In 1939 the Bureau of the Bud- Ret Way was organized and increased in size, reflecting expansion in its operations and personnel.
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Bureau of the Bud- Ret Way
Woman borrows dime to cash five dollar savings note
Omaha postal clerk Joe Weber recalls a curious case where a woman paid a dime to cash a $5 savings certificate she had just borrowed the dime for. She returned with the dime and asked to change the note so she could repay the loan. The piece also notes an estimate of 27 million musical instruments in the United States.
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Omaha
Joe Weber
Weber
United States
Bridge hand reveals blunder and misdirection in club play
A bridge column details South as declarer in four spades. West doubles then East shifts. South ducks the club lead to lure a continuation while West reads the signal and ruffs in. South loses after West covers club king and ruffs with hearts.
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South
West
North
East
Declarer
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Concord
S.U
Peggy McCarthy
Warren
Als
Mary Nancy Bars
Fayette St
Texas
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California
Emma van. Wormer
Sidney
Novak
Creuse
Syracuse University
Alexander Capurso
U. School of Music
Mozart
Strauss
Wolff
Verdi
Ravel
Williams
Aaron’ Copland
Plano
Elizabeth Dinehart
Cantor
Temple Society:of Concord
Sidney: Novak
Valley ‘High School
Jewish Community Center
Ithaca College
Bainbridge
Fort Plain
Syracuse U
University
Crouse
Harwood Simmons
Tanglewood
Berkshire Music Festival
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ben Doroff
M. Howard Stone
Michael Stone
Cornell Medical College
Ray Weisbond
Syracuse
RCA Legal Department
Benjamin F. Levy
Stanley B. Atkin
Daniel Adier
Ralph Prowda
Theodore Prowda
Sherrill
H. Winthrop Martin
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Milton
Mass
Albany
Cohoes
Martin
Robert Kendall
Trinity Church
J. Curtis Shake
St. Mark’s Church
Hartford
Conn
Episcopal
Trinity College
Leo Sowerby
Oleta Stewart
Ackerman
Ave
Chaumont
Brownsville
Adams
New York Herald Tribune
Helen Kwalwasser
American Chamber Orchestra
Washington Square Park
Manhattan
Robert Scholz
Joanne Lay
Constantia
Oneida Lake
Pinky Smith
Holden St
H. H. A. Beach
MacDowell Colony
Peterborough
N. H
James Johnson Sweeney
Edward MacDowell Association
Marian MacDowell
Ike
Goren
Ace
Trump
LAW Department
King of Hearts
Louisville
A. W. Sarba
New York
Arthur H. Christy
Saratoga
Columbia Counties
State Law Department
Christy
Jacob K. Javits
Akqe
Cole
Shop City Teall
Grant Bird
Maro
Smooth
W. T. Grant
Parker House
Davy Crockett
Bac
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