Handwriting helps Santa read more letters this season
A national survey of over five thousand principals finds 6 percent say children 5 to 9 write as well as or better than their parents. Manuscript writing is taught in 95 percent of grade schools and the shift to ballpoints and fountain pens aids legibility, easing Santa’s job delivering 14 million letters.
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Santa
Santa Claus
Junior
Pop
North Pole
Small Fry
Snaeffer Pen Company
U S Army Wives Aid French War Relief in Lorraine
U S Army in Northeastern France reports social welfare work by wives calms Communist rhetoric and strengthens ties with French families. Brig. Gen. Ford notes Santa Claus parties and firewood for orphans, plus post Veterans of Foreign Wars activity aiding veterans, widows, and orphans. He cites housing shortages for officers families and plans to expand recreation and improve facilities as construction slowly progresses near Verdun and the Maginot barracks.
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Argonne
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William Wallace Ford
U. S
France
General Ford
Maginot Barracks
Ford
SOMIF
Washington
Verdun
Meuse and
Moselle
Lorraine
St Mihiel
Ocean Shifts Every Six Thousand Years Somersault
Washington report explains a slow ocean overturn where cold water sinks in polar regions and rises at the equator. Measurements by Maurice Ewing using radiocarbon dating place the southward journey to Newfoundland at about 1,500 years, with the full cycle spanning millennia. The buildup comes from cosmic rays turning atmospheric nitrogen into carbon fourteen, which then enters the food chain and remains in organisms after death.
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Washington
Arctic
Antarctic
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Newfoundland
Equator
Maurice Ewing
Columbia University
J. J. Laurence Kulp
Columbia
American Association For Advancement of Science
Earth
Christmas Work of Art in Augsburg Company Magazine
A richly illustrated Christmas annual from the Augsburg Company in Minneapolis offers 68 pages of Christmas tales customs carols and poetry. Chief feature narrates the birth of Christ with full color illustrations and foreign land scenes. includes trimita traditions in Scandinavia and Central Europe Yule tide customs plus American scenes such as a municipal Christmas tree and birds at Christmas Time by Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques.
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Randolph E. Haugen
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Europe
America
Florence Page Jaques
Francis Lee Jaques
Garnet Hazard
Naked mural at motor mart sparks court ruling
London report says county court judge ruled a mural outside Cecil Gray’s Hounslow motor mart depicting an undraped recumbent figure as an esthetic touch for business. The painting by J. Peacock, 30 by 19 feet, carries the slogan The naked truth is revealed by us on major defects in all cars. Neighbors Auto-Klean Strainers challenged the display in court.
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Hounslow
Tudor Rees
Brentford
Middlesex
Cecil Gray
J. Peacock
Fires Creative Spirit Christmas Inspiration For All Ages
Christmas inspires art across painting sculpture literature and music as a beacon of hope amid a troubled world. From Nativity narratives to carols and hymns, centuries of creators have echoed the manger’s glory shaping forms from tiny cards to cathedrals and influencing American and European traditions.
Language of UN troops in Korea coinated by two basic words
A humorous look at how UN forces in Korea developed a pungent, multinational slang. Two core terms skosh meaning a small amount and tokson meaning a great deal appear across radio and field chatter, alongside pidgin English usage and the term bogey for a pack carrier.
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O.K
Toxon
Inauguration plans push Washington welcome for Eisenhower
Dorothy McCardle warns readers about crowded inaugural events. Only a few thousand public seats are available for the January ceremony with strict eligibility and high prices. The ball is invitation only, and lodging is scarce. private homes and trailers offer rest options as the capital prepares for the event.
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Mrs. Eisenhower
Capitol
Supreme Court
Library of Congress
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