Amherst's modern library marks 50 years of service
Amherst celebrates its sandstone library at Spring St and Park Ave built circa 1912 13 with Carnegie grant backing and local fundraising. The facility features a librarian staffed adult and juvenile divisions and a social basement used by YMCA groups and Sunday schools. It operates on intangible tax funds with a 15000 plus annual budget, serving 3238 readers with 14306 volumes and 41904 circulations in 1962 alongside 752 new books and 1888 magazine issues.
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Amherst
Spring St
Park Ave
First Library Board
Brary Board
G. W. Rice
W. H. Shibley
Jacob Baus
E. H. Nicholl
G. M. Parker
H. F. Arndt
W. M. Smithkens
H. O. Wurmser
Lorain
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Wurmser
Robert G. Armstrong
Thebrary
Jin
Armstrong
Arm Strong
Lorain County
Maude Neidling
Nellie Radde
Miss Neidling
Donald Wittenbrook
Byrd Richmond
Carl Deeds
Ruth Jewett
Lewis Goodell
Valerie Jenkins
Marion Steele
Hubert Marty
Earl Kane
James Schulz
Radde
Pieta Display at New York World’s Fair Set in Simple Surroundings
Broadway designer Jo Mielziner creates a minimal setting for Michelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican pavilion a 60 foot area. The sculpture will be protected by a transparent bulletproof shield and viewed on three motorized ramps with a fourth stationary ramp for standing observers. Cardinal Spellman asks Catholicdonors to contribute to the pavilion budget and the design aims to preserve devotional atmosphere with blue lighting slender rails and a hint of the crucifixion.
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New York
Jo Mielziner
Vatican
Mielziner
Chancery
Archdiocese of
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Peter's
Spelman
Catton's Civil War Volume Two Praises Organization and Scope
Herald Tribune News Service review highlights Bruce Catton's second Civil War volume as a masterful, vividly paced history. It notes his narrative skill, balanced perspective, and focus on pivotal months from Bull Run to Antietam, with portraits of McClellan, Lee, Sherman, Lincoln, and Davis.
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New York
But Run
Bruce Catton
Ghild
Antietam
Sumter
Washington
Bull Run
Maryland
Chancelorsville
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Wilderness
Appomattox
Catton
Lee
Virginia
Sherman
Tennessee
Lincoln
Davis
Sover
B. Long
Wilson's Creek
Rafael Palacios
Dalton
Joh Ransom
Paul
Eriksson
Civil War Round Table
The
Potomac
Year around college within 20 years, says Columbia president
Columbia University president Dr Grayson Kirk predicts the nation will shift to year round study with a trimester system within 20 years. He cites university budgets and federal research funds and notes Columbia already uses two six week summer sessions. The A B degree becoming as common as a high school diploma signals broad college enrollment growth.
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Terry Ferrer
Herald Tribune News Service
New York
United States
Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
New York City
Kirk
Commemcment
Columbia
Dr. Kirk
School of Business
Colmmbia
Teachers College
Barnard College
College of Pharmacy
Hawaii as the Mecca of Surf Riders Through the Ages
A London Observer Service piece traces Hawaii’s enduring status as the global surf mecca. It notes the spread of Hawaiian technique to Bondi, Piha, Lima, Acapulco, Santa Monica, Malibu, Durban, and Biarritz, with Hawaiians teaching visitors during daily sessions. It highlights dramatic November surf, early surfboard designs from 14 feet to modern polystyrene boards, and the evolving craft from cedar and balsa to synthetic materials.
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Captain Cook
Hawaii
Bondi
Manney
Twin sewers craft wardrobes for dolls and selves
Elyria high school twins Carol and Rita Coonley sixteen begin sewing to save money on outfits for their Reviow dolls. They design and sew dresses coats and suits for themselves and dolls while helping at home and volunteering as candy stripers at Elyria Memorial Hospital. Both attend Pilgrim Congregational Church and era for district sewing plans.
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Carol
Rita Coonley
Aot
Rita
Elyria High School
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Pilgrim Fellowship
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Ambherst
YMCA
Century Club
Hero
Colin P. Kelly III
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
William C. Westmoreland
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Michelangelo
N.Y. Fair
Herald Tribute News Service
Werte
McClellan
Richmond
Stonewall Jackeon
London Observer Service
Everest
McPherson Clan
Dhee
Carol and
Fits
Arthur Coonley
Beeberl
Milford River & Machine Co
Coonley
Coontey
Apereal Hive
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