Falmouth Welcomes Solo Atlantic Sailor Manry Home
Robert Manry reached Falmouth England aboard the 13 foot Tinkerbelle completing a nonstop 3200 mile Atlantic crossing. The Cleveland Plain Dealer copy editor left Boston June 1 and was greeted by officials and family as immigration and harbor officials escorted the boat to the pier. Manry described kissing mother earth upon landing and shared a light moment with his wife who described his fit condition and weight changes. The modest boat suffered a missing rudder and oar during the voyage.
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Robert Maury
Lizard Point
Cleveland Hewsman
Lizard
Cornwall
English Channel
Tinkerbellé
Atlantic
Manry
Mass
Harebormaster
Tinkerbelle
Manny
Kurt Carlsen
Flying Enterprise
Maury
Robert
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lake Erie
76 Year Old Grandmother Chases Thief
In Baltimore a 76 year old great grandmother chased a purse snatcher for five blocks after he grabbed her bag as she boarded a bus. She shouted for help and pursued the thief though bystanders did not assist. The thief fled with 4 dollars, eyeglasses and diabetic medicine.
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Baltimore
Willie A. Carman
Dennis King Named Fifth President of The Players Club
New York AP reports Dennis King succeeds Howard Lindsay as president of The Players Club. King becomes the fifth leader since the club’s 19th century founding by Edwin Booth, with former presidents including Joe Jefferson John Drew and Walter Hampden.
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NEW York
Dennis King
The
Payers
Howard Lindsay
King
Club
Edwin Booth
Joe Jefferson
John Drew
Walter Hampden
Fancy Packaging Sparks Sale of Gourmet Foods
New York AP report on the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade show at the Coliseum notes packaging often drives purchases of gourmet items. Executives cite prosperity and status boosting demand as buyers focus on look as much as taste for caviar camembert pate foie gras and other delicacies.
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New York
Julian Cowan
National Association For the Specialty Food Trade
Association
Cowan
Coliseum
Shenandoah Fair to Feature Festival Participants
Shenandoah fair officials will join the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester for the 1966 events. A Fair Association float themed around spring will parade in Winchester on April 29 with Miss Shenandoah County Fair entering the Miss Shenandoah Apple Blossom contest in Woodstock and other prize awards. The festival winner earns a weeklong vacation for herself and a chaperone at the Palm Beach Holiday Inn. In Washington a Lutheran chaplaincy expert lauds Gen Harold K. Johnson for curbing offensive language in Army training and commanders are directed to enforce it.
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Woodstock
Winchester
Shenandoah County
The
Palm Beach
Fla
Washington
E. O. Mid‘poe
U.S. Army
Harold K. Johnson
Bowles Returns to Post After Parkinsons Surgery
U S ambassador to India Chester Bowles underwent a highly successful operation for Parkinsons disease on June 15 at St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. He has returned to his post in New Delhi, with doctors describing the 114 hour procedure using a thalamus needle and liquid nitrogen to freeze a small brain area.
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Chester Bowles
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India
Bowles
New Delhi
St Barnabas Hospital
The
Bronx
Irving 5. Cooper
Joseph M. Waltz
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