Familiar Tune and the Piper in Love and Divorce
Kathleen Norris argues that calling the tune in love risks paying a high price as young women face broken hearts and divorces. The essay follows Mary Bates’s struggle with a 16 year age gap, an arranged marriage, child custody, and a later separation, highlighting how patience and wiser perspective may guide women through the costly consequences of romantic choices.
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Paul
Park Avenue
Bronx
Kathleen Norris
Sidney
Janey-Jo
Bates
Mary
Expendable PT Boats Hold Line in Philippines Raid
The story follows four of five Naval officers from Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 as they recount a raid against Japan in the Philippines. Lieut John Guiketey leads the squadron, with Lieut R B Kelly and Engishs Anthony Akera and George Cox Jr. The PT boats capture a landing craft and prisoner a Japanese captain and his man but lose two of six boats. With torpedoes depleted, the unit plans to evade to China unless aid arrives.
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The
Philippines
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron
John Guiketey
Aquadron
R. B. Kelly
Anthony Akera
George ©. Cox, Jr
Squadron 3
China
Final Lap to China Aboard Subic Bay MTB Crew
In late 1941 at Bataan, Lt Bulkeley and Lt Kelly recount daring MTB actions against Japanese ships in Subic Bay. They plan a China escape as MacArthur departs, salvage boats, stock gas, and stage a secret voyage while soldiers endure a doomed defense. A later shipboard dinner with Peggy amidst looming separation foreshadows a perilous farewell.
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Bulkeley
D.S.C
China
Washington
MacArthur
Pacific
Buskeley
Buck
Bataan
America
Batran
Corregidor
Philippines
Australia
Yamashita
Sisiman Cove
Peggy
Little Baguio Hospital
Nelson
Little Baguio
Reynolds
Army
Navy
Signal-Corps
Fairy Godmother chair cover by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Readers learn a decorative chair cover project by Ruth Wyeth Spears featuring multi layer padding, tufting with a long needle, muslin ruffles, and a circular cardboard seat pattern. The item notes a proposed Victory Book title and a 15 cent post paid mail offer.
General Knowledge Quiz from Ancient to Modern Times
A reader quiz lists ten questions across topics from science and military to history and technology. It asks about radio wave speed around the globe, punishment for AWOL sailors, navy army equivalencies, education in music, Croesus era authorship, US patent duration, egg production per pound, typing pangrams, US army field service age limits, and a massive office building with vast facilities and staff.
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Army
Navy
Croesus
Lydia
United States
United States Army
Love's Strength in Durable Comfort of Wordsworth Quote
A brief poetic reflection on love as a sustaining force that steadies the heart and minds, quoting Wordsworth. The lines emphasize love’s power to endure and protect against overwhelming sorrow and mental strain.
Responsibilities Gravitate to the Capable Leader
A quote attributed to Elbert Hubbard states that duties shift toward those who can handle them and power moves to those who know how. The line underscores competence and decisive action as keys to leadership.
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Elbert Hubbard
Answers to ten trivia prompts from a 19th century quiz
The list presents ten answers: 1) Seven times, 2) a sailor to the brig and a soldier to the guardhouse, 3) Captain, 4) Boston 1837, 5) Aesop's Fables, 6) Seventeen years, 7) about ten, 8) contains all letters of the alphabet, 9) ranks and ages from second lieutenant to brigadier general with no max age, 10) the army's Pentagon-like building in Washington.
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Boston
Army
Pentagon
Washington
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Paying the
Piper Bell Syphicate
By Kathleen Norris
Robert
Ann
Susan
Mary Bates
Mary Lee
Janey
Anid Bulkeley
Kelly
Akers
Sabic Bay
Suble
Subic
Olongapa Dock
Cox
General MacArthur
Air Force
States
Cebu
Mindanao
Clark Lee
Nat Floyd
New York Times
Colonel Wong
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Mark
Mey
Hitchen
Pe Cy Econ
MES
Ruth Wyrth Spears
Berford Wills
New York
Perma
Ren
Prince Albert
Hakins
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