Atlanta Hosts Gone With the Wind Festival Premiere
The city of Atlanta stages a Gone With the Wind festival as the film’s premiere draws crowds. Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O Hara is highlighted with a green sprigged gown and a 17 inch waist ideal. Relics from the Civil War era are on display along Peachtree Street as officials inaugurate events with holiday lighting and special guest arrangements.
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Atlanta
Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara
Trade
GWTA
Wslim
Vivien Leigh
Miss K
Peachtree Street
E. D. Rivers
W.B. Hartsfield
Federal
Executives Hotel
Georgian Terrace
Locker organization and the case for orderly storage
The author argues that cluttered lockers reveal carelessness and that a simple system for placing items would ease detentions and help students locate books without a search party. The piece uses practical examples about shoes socks and library books to urge better organization.
Honor Roll Recalls Students and Families Featured
A long list of names appears in the honor roll, pairing surnames with given names across multiple entries. Schools recognize students including Ayers Shryock Brown Dobyns and many others, with several families and households represented in the roster.
Shamrocks win girls basketball series two to zero
The Shamrocks clinched the series by winning the best two of three games. In Monday’s finale Shamrocks 23 Maroons 7 and on Tuesday Shamrocks 31 Maroons 10 with Elizabeth Rainsberger and Madalee Carpenter top scorers on 9 points each.
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Shamrocks
Maroons
Elizabeth Rainsberger
Maroon
Madalee Carpenter
Shamrock
Rebecca Kern
Barr
Ochs
Victor Griffin Delights Students With Australia Talk
Victor Griffin, a resident of Australia for 26 years, entertained students at assembly with life and habits of Australians, displays of implements, family stories, and bird calls. He demonstrated drop kicking a football and boomerang throwing before ending the program.
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Victor Griffin
Australia
Jack
Among Our Dignified Seniors
Portrait of several senior students with nicknames and hobbies. Marianna Carper known as Penny pursues nursing while collecting old coins and playing volleyball. Paul Bourjaily nicknamed Bunyan or Pop, loves riding horses and aims to understand women, active in multiple clubs and student organizations. Ansell Baker called Doc enjoys model airplanes and aviation, participates in band orchestra glee club and sports.
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Marianna Carper
Hobbie
Kay Kyser
Paul Bourjaily
Bunyan
Bob Crosby
Liebestraum
40 Handlian
Ansell Baker
Junior Dance Preview and School Gossip
A light school column notes a Junior Dance Friday night and compares it favorably to last year’s event. It mentions memory work, Pete Himelright’s photo selections, Mr. Ochs’s dating bureau, and booster club Xmas card box in the Main Corridor next week with cards distributed at lunch Wednesday.
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Browning
Pete Himelright
Ann Klimes
Ochs
Phyllis
Bill Miller
Booster Club
Staunton Seeks Fresh Win Over Handley This Season
Staunton faces Handley with one new opponent. Under Head Coach Maddox and manager Whistle Head Moore the Handley squad studies fundamentals and starts hard practice this week aiming for more victories than last year.
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Staunton
Handley
Maddox
Moore
One Year Ago Oranges capture the basketball series
A retrospective note recalls how Oranges won the series by taking the final two games. It sits among school arts and music items from various years and mentions a music book by David Ewen.
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Oranges
Christmas Concert By Glee Club and Chorus
The Glee Club and the A Capella Choir with the Elementary Chorus will present their annual Christmas Concert on December 17 at 3 o clock under Miss Gwen dolyn Haynes. The program includes The Cherubim Song While By My Sheep The Birthday of a King and other Christmas anthems. The Elementary Chorus will perform several more carols.
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Gwendolyn Haynes
Glee Club
A Capella Choir
A Capella
The
Student responses to a hypothetical inheritance
Louise Avey and peers answer what they would do with $500. Louise aims to recover from the ock, Bill Groff plans a trip to Hawaii, Estelle Tinsman wants Newport News, Butch Robinson would spend, Mary Chauderis sights New Jersey, Baker celebrates, Tom Ritter would buy a car.
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Louise Avey
Bill Groff
Sophmore
Hawaii
Estelle Tinsman
Newport News
Butch” Robinson
Mary Chauderis
New Jersey
O Baker
Tom Ritter
Modern Telephone Wiring Concealed In Wall Pipe Solution
Ask your architect for up to date arrangements so telephone wiring can be ceased in a new or remodeled home. A pipe inside the wall carries all necessary wires for present and future needs, eliminating exposed wiring on baseboards and moldings, protecting wires, and enhancing home beauty at little extra cost if installed during construction or renovation.
Dear Pittypat Lovelorn Advice Column
A Virginia reader Jenny asks Pittypat how to win her father's approval for a courtship. The letter hints at evading parental restriction with possible drastic actions and contains cautions about violence and moonshine. The response urges safer paths and warns against exploitation or harm.
Fourth Period Study Hall Chronicles Hunger and Restlessness
The narrator endures a fifty minute fourth period study hall hungry and sleepy. He battles boredom while Pollard disrupts with hums and cat calls, then Mrs. Barr warns him as the bell signals to move to the next room.
Atom Smasher Right On Job
A workman at Indiana University's physics building was hit by a flying pair of pliers from his pocket near the atom smashing machine. Physicists nearby said the incident was not supernatural but caused by a huge electromagnet in the atom smasher.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Alleged Communist Official Held on Passport Violation Writ
An alleged Communist official named Nicholas Dozenberg sits in the Portland Oregon Federal Building jailed on a telegraphic bench warrant from New York charging passport law violations.
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Nicholas Dozenberg
Portland, Ore
Federal
New York
Two Finns Use Rusty Cannon to Frustrate Bombers
In Helsinki a coastal village tale recounts how two elderly Civilian Defense members fired a rusty cannon at 15 bombers en route to the capital on December 1. The shot missed, the squadron turned back, and only three planes reached Helsinki while bombs targeted the shore.
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Helsinki
Civilian Defense Organization
Warnings on Tularemia Prompted by Five Local Cases
Baltimore dispatch reports five tularemia cases with health official Dr. R H Riley issuing tips to prevent infection. Adults should avoid contact with rabbit fur, cook all rabbit meat, burn game wrappers, wear waterproof gloves in skinning or dressing game, and keep hands away from face. Healthy rabbits flee when frightened. diseased ones move slowly.
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Baltimore
R. H. Riley
State Department of Health
Answers to Today s Quiz
Answers printed on page 4 identify the Philippine group. item 2 is No. 3 notes an instrument to measure humidity. item 4 lists a pronunciation variant of adamant. item 5 names Thomas Walsh. item 6 cites Cornell. item 7 refers to galleys. item 8 states thirty two. item 9 names Louisiana. item 10 defines persons born of two distinct races as in Chinese and white offspring.
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Thomas Walsh
Cornell
Galleys
Louisiana
Butter and Egg Bride Sues Grandfather for More Fortune
Andrea Luckenbach seeks a larger share of the Luckenbach Steamship Company arguing her grandfather intended all three children, including her, to benefit from a possible $10 million estate. Edgar Luckenbach contends the children's interest is limited to about $1.5 million in boats and income has already flowed to her father. The Brooklyn Surrogate Court suit targets the family trust and anticipated probate.
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New York
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Andrea
Brooklyn
Luckenbach Steamship Company
Billy Dobbs
FTC rules auto financing uses misleading six percent claim
The Federal Trade Commission ruled that six per cent cannot be used if charges exceed a six per cent simple rate on the remaining balance. The order targeted General Motors and Ford Motor Company, while complaints against others were dropped after settlements.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
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