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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1954
Page
14
Marie Fallon wears her black georgette nightgown to a Sunset Strip nightclub. She dresses from the lingerie closet claiming no new gowns, while husband Bob Fallon jokes about saving on dressmaker bills and hopes the trend ends up in fashion. A photographer catches the scene noting the outfit as a nightgown.
Buffalo residents report Earl W. Pearce transforming outdoor window boxes into mini greenhouses for geraniums, petunias, pansies and myrtle. An iron frame supports plastic strips and a heated system using tree lights and tubing with a thermostat keeps plants unfrozen, even in unseasonably warm spells.
In San Diego, Ancele Sam trains four Samoan enlistees hailed as the first from American Samoa to join the U S Navy in modern times. The recruits, calling themselves a "people of love," express pride in serving the United States, admire U S generosity, and note the cold San Diego weather compared to South Pacific climes.
New York reviews celebrate MGM’s 30th anniversary in movies with a star packed album featuring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel and Warfield. Highlights include Singing in the Rain, No Business Like Show Business and Gypsy Music along with Good Time Jazz and Chet Baker LPs. William D. Laffler notes strong performances from Ward Kimball and Pete Rugolo with several notable singles and stage recordings receiving praise.
Everett Fuller a deputy sheriff by profession is a clown by choice known as Arlington the Clown for twenty years He has spent vacations with the Mills Brothers Circus Before joining the Schenectady County sheriff s department forty years ago Fuller worked at the Van Curter Theater He still possesses the threshold of the theater dressing room once used by Barrymore and other stars
In this exchange editor Edgar A. Mowrer answers reader questions on Germany's neutrality prospects under Allied occupation, U.S. willingness to fight in Southeast Asia, Latin American policy, and Middle East oil, noting conditional support for imperialism that develops U.S. resources, and assessing General Ely's Indochina prospects with current forces.
BeLoit Wis. A 22 year old Korean wartime interpreter Whal Min Kim studies at Beloit College aiming for international law. He fled Pyongyang with his family, lived under Japanese and Communist rule, then served as a UN field interpreter. A church group helped him enroll, and he finds American luxuries like ice cream all year round a delight.
In Ontario Center New York Mrs Walter Dudley reports a temperamental ivy plant that blooms only when placed on the ledge of an upstairs west bedroom window. In that spot it produces bright yellow clusters of tiny blossoms. moved elsewhere in the room or outdoors, it won’t bloom.
The weekend feature offers a mixed auto tour including boat or plane rides to Kelleys Island in Lake Erie. Reach by boat from Sandusky or by plane from Sandusky airport, with a second island flying service using old Ford tri motored planes. The island, two by five miles, offers isolation, cottages, a new motel, fishing, boating, water skiing, and historic sites Inscription Rock and 26 000 year old glacial grooves.
Akron based owner-trainer Earl Sherrard of Imlay City Michigan faced a bad day at Ascot Park. A misread mutuel caused him to buy two $54 tickets for one race and two $50 tickets for another. After returning to fix the error, the mistaken tickets paid out, leaving Sherrard with a $4,030 loss. the corrected bets would have yielded $80.60 for a $2 wager.
Tropic Lightning moves to Chicago for the 25th Infantry Division Association fifth annual reunion at the Sherman Hotel. All division veterans and present members of the association are invited to attend the gathering Friday.
The card inal tops as Americas most popular state bird with seven states designating it since Kentucky first did in 1926. Rhode Island chose the seaworthy egg producer, Utah picked the seagull, and Delaware the blue hen, while Alabama alone chose the woodpecker. Louisiana chose the pelican as the only coastal bird in state lore.
The Elyria Garden Club plans a July 15 garden tour of Elyria. Members will receive full details soon. The write up notes preferred plants including peonies from Ira M Harrison and J J Upp, roses, hosta varieties, spider plant and astilbe, and ends with an old sundial motto about time and truth.
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