A Place For Him to Fit After the War
Kathleen Norris asks mothers sisters and wives to prepare warmly for returning soldiers. She warns of postwar hardship unemployment high rents and disillusionment and urges two million women to each support one veteran with a home plan a small savings account and a welcoming role.
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Cherbourg
Normandy
France
America
Berlin
Mom
The Road Back For Veterans After War
A guidance piece on veterans returning home detailing the emotional and practical adjustments after war. It urges family support to help veterans readjust through activities, travel, education, or work, and explains the broad impact on home life and relationships.
Relish With Summer Fruits Jam Recipes Guide
Late summer markets offer fruits ideal for jams relishes and butters. The guide covers crabapples pears peaches and quince with pectin sugar and spice details plus preserving steps and hot-water-bath processing. Includes Tomato Preserves Ranch Preserves and citrus-spiced mixes for meals and gifts.
Lynn Says Popular Choice for Quick Nibbles
The note suggests fried chicken dipped in cornflakes, cottage cheese mixed with garden greens and onions on lettuce for a luncheon. It mentions bread pudding with brown sugar and a lemon custard, and scrambled eggs served with jelly or chicken livers. Au gratin vegetables include cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes and tomatoes with a cheesy cornflake topping.
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Lynn
Hollywood Fans Flood Ladd With Locket Photo Requests
Alan Ladd, star of Two Years Before the Mast, drew 7 200 requests in one week for locket photos. Paramount’s fan mail dept produced 100 000 tiny photos cut to heart shapes for teens. Marilyn Maxwell, born in August, pursued acting after Pasadena Playhouse and a Metro screen test. Robert Watson shifts to a serious Hitler role in The Hitler Gang. June Duprez credits a blonde makeover for a breakthrough in None but the Lonely Heart. Larry Douglas rises as radio singing sensation on CBS Here's to Romance. Fanny Brice’s child art collection grows from radio fame to galleries, including works from countries under Hitler. Chief Willow Bird marks 32 years in film with The Girl Rush, not as an Indian but a gold miner. A GI loses wallet, then receives a $100 check signed by Frank Sinatra. Jane Froman earns praise for stage presence on Here’s to Romance and Stage Door Canteen while on crutches after Lisbon Clipper crash. Odds and ends tease future on set links to Mr Winkle Goes to War.
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Alan Ladd
Hollywood
Alan
Paramount
Order delays due to high demand and war conditions
Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to No.
record shooting feat by Adolph Topperwein in 1907
Collier’s notes a record shooting achievement by Adolph Topperwein in San Antonio Texas. He fired a .22 caliber repeating rifle eight hours daily for ten days and hit all but nine of seventy two thousand five hundred two and a half inch wood blocks tossed at twenty five feet. His longest run without a miss reached fourteen thousand five hundred sixty targets.
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Adolph Topperwein
San Antonio
Texas
Collier’s
Quiz Style History and Science Quick Questions
A compact set of trivia covering metals and melting points armadillos and mammals dragon wagons ship flags iguanas monarchs and throne restoration large seabirds and the four colored seas. Answers vary by region and context but this list tests broad knowledge.
Riddles of World War II Era Terms
This list catalogs diverse items from a WWII era glossary. It includes tungsten, the ampersand symbol, provost marshal MPs, a mammal, a tank transport, banderole, a large tropical lizard, Haile Selassie, the albatross, and several seas and regions.
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London
Haile Selassie
Abyssinia
White Sea
North
Russia
Black Sea
Yellow Sea
East Asia
Red Sea
Africa
Asia
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