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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1955
Page
17
A solitary American soldier spends Christmas 1944 with a French gendarme couple on the Nice coast. The meal, full of humor and language barriers, ends with a shared sense of home as the gendarme reveals a hidden rabbit aboard Nazi occupation. The visit leaves all warmed by friendship and holiday cheer.
A how to guide on setting up a Christmas photo with stockings, a fireplace, and tree. It describes lighting arrangements with flashbulbs and flood lamps, camera distance, focus, and planning to avoid last minute panic. It warns to prepare film, bulbs, and extension cords, and emphasizes a smooth shooting plan before Christmas morning.
Postmaster General announces a three cent Mellon stamp marking the centennial of Andrew W. Mellon. It will go on sale December 20 in Washington with first day cover options and a portrait by Oswald Birley.
Reader questions the shift in Republican and Ike policy toward Russia. The columnist cites misleading reports, fears overplaying the Geneva Spirit for political gain, and imagines Stevenson acting like Ike would provoke GOP backlash. Mentions Taft, Dulles, and Andrew Mellon with brief context.
An editor notes a Victor Hugo tale from The World's Greatest Christmas Stories. In a Nativity like moment a silent traveler finds Cosette sleeping under the stairs, her doll and worn shoes nearby, and leaves a louis d or in her wooden sabot as a symbol of unseen charity.
A humorous reminiscence of a first square dance miscue. The writer recalls two left feet, a frantic floor scramble, and a chorus of laughter as partners grab fabric and buttons pop. It celebrates square dancing as a nationwide, even international, pastime with colorful scenes.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography will release a thousand sealed bottles into the Pacific each month of the year to study ocean currents. Each bottle contains a bilingual postcard asking finders to mail it back. Bottles will drift along the California coast using the oldest drift method alongside modern instruments.
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