Fiddler on the Roof long-run record and Iowa note
Editorials reflect on Fiddler on the Roofs Broadway run surpassing Life With Father and Tobacco Road, noting audience trends and enduring appeal. Also recounted is a humorous litter story involving New Jersey plates and a Mount Pleasant judge elected Washington Coffee Club president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Fiddler
Lindsay and Crouse
Father
Tobacco Road
Abie
Harlan Bainter
Mount Pleasant
District Court
Washington
Washington Coffee Club
Lift Ban on Bingo in Michigan and Iowa Opinion
An editorial argues Michigan and Iowa may ease constitutional bans on lotteries and church bingo. It cites recent primary results, predicts Iowa votes in August, and defends non profit bingo from syndicate takeover concerns while urging legislative safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Iowa
Wolverine
Wentworths Reunion Highlights Attendance and Visits
The Wentworth reunion held at the Harry Wentworth home Saturday featured guests from Cedar Rapids Davenport Stockport and Brighton. Harry ill with shingles at Washington Hospital missed the event as relatives visited him in the afternoon. Children rode ponies played croquet and shared a bountiful dinner with family friends before many traveled to Phoenix after the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Meuth
Brighton
Wentworth
Harry Wentworth
Tom Bagby
Stockport
Frank Anderson
Cedar Rapids
David Wentworth
Jill
Karen
Nancy
Davenport
Dean Bagby
Rodney Rolland
Renee
Pleasant
Earl Wright
David
Craig
Harry
Washington Hospital
Chester
Sherrie Wikoff
Tracy
Doug Wallis
Beatrice Tracy
Grace Frazey
Phoenix
Aunz
Jake Burger
Harold Rebling
Rubey - Meeks
Germanville Lutheran Church
Adah Zilhman
Ira Eshelman
Minnie Crile
Nelson Nursing Home
Fairfield
Stanley Brecheisen
Denver
Colo
Alice Rose
Kathryn Williams
Gilbert Widmer
Knoxville
Linda Weise
Des Moines
Marshall Rose
Crawfordsville
Tony Meath
Rex Widmer
West Chester
John Moxley
Bette
Princeville
Harmony Club
Mabel Dunbar
Phoenix, Ariz
Norma Dunbar
Gladys Schooley
Marie Crandall
Norene Erwin
June 16, 1972 highlights and historic milestones
On this day Venus, Mercury and Mars shine in the evening sky while Jupiter and Saturn rise in the morning. Notable births include soprano Helen Traubel. Key events: 1871 Shrine organization in New York. 1940 Petain becomes French premier. 1963 Valentina Tereshkova goes to space. 1970 Kenneth Gibson becomes first black mayor of a major Eastern city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Helen Traubel
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
New York City
Walter Fleming
Marshal Henri Petain
France
Nazi Germany
Russia
Valentina Tereshkova
Kenneth Gibson
Newark
N.J
Bridge bidding quiz sample shows five hands and responses
Analysis of five hands with bidding choices three clubs three notrump three hearts pass and four spades. Explains forcing nature of three clubs and broadcast implications for slam chances and partner signals. Warns against ladder climbing after pass and distinguishes spade-shutout versus strong spade raises.
Blizzard Brucie Storm Name Debuts in Hartford Weather Service
Dear Abby reports Hartford Travelers Weather Service now names winter storms after men, mirroring tropical storm naming for women. A reader asks if the practice is appropriate and Abby says to batten down the hatches as Blizzard Brucie arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Hartford
Conn
Travelers’ Weather Service
Adam Cohen
WTIC
Adam
Brucie
Porcupine Eats Wheel and Other Oddities
A ranger’s car loses the steering wheel to a porcupine that eats all but the spokes, salt on the ranger’s hands blamed. The piece then threads through journal musings on claustrophobia, early birds versus night owls, dice games, and playful trivia before ending with an address and copyright notice for L. M. Boyd in Fort Worth.
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Cain
Lord
God
Eden
Abel
United States
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Variety
John Chapman
New York Daily News
Zero Mostel
Zero
Tevye
Paul Lipsom
Zero Mastel
London
Agatha Christie
New Jersey
New
Dyersville
Towa
Wentworths
Blondie
Jam Iron
Skc
Sage
Lg Backer
King
Dean Axbby
Abigail van Buren
Chicane
Telwne N. Y. News Sind, Inc
Carnate
Jerry
Alf
Chef
MR. Wilson
Ation
Boners
L_M.BOYD
Porcupine Eats Wheel
England
Laureat C. Day Lewis
John Scarne
Benjamin Franklin
Queen Elizabeth of England
Mrs
Philip ‘Mountbatten
Windsor
Fox
Hudson Bay
Boondocks
Taiwan
LM. Boyd
P.O
Fort Worth
L.M. Boyd
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