Cherry Rawlings Leaves Saint Dorothea for San Francisco Secretarial Post
Orphan Cherry Rawlings departs Saint Dorothea's under guardian Judge Marshbants to work for wealthy Mrs Porter in San Francisco. She visits the Marshbanks mansion, dines with the judge, and senses Fran and Amy's disinterest and hints of Kelly Coates's and Fran's closeness. Dorothy Page-smith's tears at a Porter party deepen Cherry's bitterness.
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Charlotte
Cherry) Rawlings
Saint Dorothea's School
Judson Marshbants
Emma Haskell
Fran
Amy
Kelly Coates
Cherry
Coates
Mer
Mrs. Porster
Kelly
Herxebac
Mrs. Porter
Inter
Secret histories unfold in a Marin jaunt and a San Francisco house
Cherry moves through a day of servants and illness at Mrs Porter's luxurious home. Emma reveals Cherry's mother was her sister Charlotte, shocking Cherry and redefining family ties. A noon walk leads to a visit with Kelly Coates and Fran Marshbanks at Kelly's rustic Marin studio, where love and uneasy entanglements deepen.
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Emma
Cherry
Mrs. Porter
Presidio
Bay Shore
Sausalito
Kelly
Tapcote
Topcote
Marin County
Spanish Farm Road
Erminina
Prom
Marshbanks
Fred
Judson
Springfield
Charlotte
Hippety Hop Over the Globe By Beverly Smith
Beverly Smith profiles the U S Army Air Transport command, describing its rapid global reach from Maryland to Iceland and London. The piece explains its primary mission to move planes, men, and materials worldwide, compares air tonnage efficiency to ships, and notes rapid expansion and evolving logistics akin to a grand central station of the air.
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Beverly Smith
Maryland
Iceland
London
U. S. Army Air Transport Command
Air Transport Command
U.S. A
Army
Britain
Montreal
United States
Persia
Chungking
Russia
England
Alaska
Grand Central
War era lit picks and snappy wits from a magazine blur
A brisk roundup reviews Shaw and Henderson humor in The Saturday Review, Coronet quotes Hollywood insiders, Harper’s Fiction Pearl Buck and Reader’s Digest refugee tale, plus Punchy satire on war front pages. Highlights include Edward W. Beattie Jr. and Mann’s Order of the Day, with front-line gossip and book notes.
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John Mason Brown
Archibald Henderson
Shaw
Saturday Review
Henderson
Salt Brown
Kenderson
Irving Wallace
Hollywood
Quickie
Pearl Buck
Harper's
Woollall
Reader's Digest
Tima
Japan
Punchy
Sar
Ealm
Hooked hearth rug pattern by Ruth Wyeth Spears
The feature describes a hooked hearth rug project that can grow to room size. It notes family participation with materials from clothing, dyed wool from blankets, and turquoise flowers and red cherries in alternate squares. Directions include burlap foundation, patterns cut from paper, and rug backing with a steel rug back.
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Casteell
Trivial Quiz Questions on Rain Water and History
Water from one inch of rain equals about 27 000 gallons per acre. The Cradle of Liberty refers to Philadelphia or the city where the American Revolution began. A spider has eight walking legs. If a tales is issued in court procedure it means a legal writ requiring a defendant to appear. A cross shaped like a plus sign is called a Greek cross. Croesus was king of Lydia.
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Air Transport Command
Acre
Cradle of Liberty
Croesus
Answers to the quiz items list
The notes enumerate ten prompts with concise answers. Items include a weight of one hundred tons, Faneuil Hall as a landmark, a spider possessing four pairs of legs, jurors being summoned in addition to the panel, and a Greek cross shape. Lydia is also identified among the entries.
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Faneuil Hall
Lydia
Mourning Colors Across Countries
Mourning colors vary by country with red in parts of Africa, white favored in China and Japan, grayish brown in Ethiopia, pale brown in Iran, sky blue in Syria and Armenia, violet in Turkey and yellow in Egypt and Burma.
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Africa
China
Japan
Ethiopia
Iran
Syria
Armenia
Turkey
Egypt
Burma
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Enorats
Jere Marshbanks Y
Mar Norris
Fran Marshbanks
Kelly Conte
CWHU
Harold L. George
Guadalcanal
Hanson Baldwin
Solomons
Times
The
Gazette
Congress
Moxie
Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace
Thomas Mann
Knopf
Manhattan
Ed Beattie
Crowell
Edward W. Beattie Jr
United Press
Munich
Daladier
Chamberlain
Mussolini
Hitler
Benita
Dewey
Judith Evelyn
Angel Street
Ring Lardner
Edith Wharton
B. Alexander
Margaret Bailey
Anne Parrish
O. Henry
John G. Pollard
Aff
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
TRAD
Mrs. Autil Wyetil Spears
Bedford Hilla
New York
St.Joseph
Churchill
Smith Brothers
Smith Bros
Mark
U. S
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