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One of the advantages to our daughter having worked at the public library for several years was that employees often got first dibs on items that were being sent to the discard, remove, de-shelve or otherwise-take-out-of-circulation cart. I remember well the day she arrived home with a car trunk and back seat filled with old volumes that all somehow fit into our increasingly book-stuffed house. Among the treasures was a bundle of about two dozen sixty year old Collier’s magazines. These have become favorite weekend reading, especially the advertisements. " Dry scalp? Use Vaseline hair tonic." “More Doctors Smoke Camels Than any other Cigarette.” “Try Aero Shave, the new canned shaving lather”.
A regular feature is much like these “Perspectives” and was called " 48 States of Mind ". It was a collection of odd bits of news from across the then 48 United States. The bunch below are from the July 11, 1953 edition.
A girl that Mr. Lennis McLeod knows in Buena Park, California, works in a chicken eatery. With each weekly pay check she gets four pounds of chicken as a bonus. And, says Mr. McLeod, she is swapping verbal punches with agents of Internal Revenue, which is demanding at least a wing.
Nebraska City News reports this analysis of Daylight Savings Time by a thoughtful Navajo Indian who says; "It’s the same as cutting the top off a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom to make the blanket longer."
In Seattle, Washington, a gentleman accompanied his wife to a viewing of the haul of gifts handed over at a recent bridal shower. He pointed to what looked like a zippered cocoon and asked, “What’s that?” “That”, said the lovely bride-to-be, “is a slip cover for our refrigerator”. The fellow departed immediately, saying he could not face what may come next.
Success is so simple. For example, there was the ambitious lad reporting to the famous track coach at New York University, wanting to know what it would take to become a champion sprinter. “It’s no problem at all”, replied the well known Emil Von Elling, "No matter how fast the other guy runs, just run faster."
The indefatigable researcher, Ray Schneider, emerges from his laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota, to announce that people move in their sleep an average of every fifteen minutes. Thus if you weigh 150 pounds you move 600 pounds each sleeping hour. If you sleep 8 hours, you heave 4,800 pounds every night. And we wonder why we wake up still exhausted.
A Tennessee gentleman, having seen his son graduating from college, gave him this brief bit of counsel; he told the lad to work hard, be patient, and the day would surely come when he would know as little as his father.
Just to emphasize the advantages of life in Hartford, Connecticut, Bob Steele, the slightly infallible sports reporter of radio station WTIC, grew reminiscent. He said that when he arrived in Hartford sixteen years ago he was worth exactly twenty cents. “Today”, said Mr. Steel, "although I don’t care to boast, I am worth conservatively ten times that much."
A regular feature is much like these “Perspectives” and was called " 48 States of Mind ". It was a collection of odd bits of news from across the then 48 United States. The bunch below are from the July 11, 1953 edition.
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- - - - - - -Nebraska City News reports this analysis of Daylight Savings Time by a thoughtful Navajo Indian who says; "It’s the same as cutting the top off a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom to make the blanket longer."
In Seattle, Washington, a gentleman accompanied his wife to a viewing of the haul of gifts handed over at a recent bridal shower. He pointed to what looked like a zippered cocoon and asked, “What’s that?” “That”, said the lovely bride-to-be, “is a slip cover for our refrigerator”. The fellow departed immediately, saying he could not face what may come next.
Success is so simple. For example, there was the ambitious lad reporting to the famous track coach at New York University, wanting to know what it would take to become a champion sprinter. “It’s no problem at all”, replied the well known Emil Von Elling, "No matter how fast the other guy runs, just run faster."
The indefatigable researcher, Ray Schneider, emerges from his laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota, to announce that people move in their sleep an average of every fifteen minutes. Thus if you weigh 150 pounds you move 600 pounds each sleeping hour. If you sleep 8 hours, you heave 4,800 pounds every night. And we wonder why we wake up still exhausted.
A Tennessee gentleman, having seen his son graduating from college, gave him this brief bit of counsel; he told the lad to work hard, be patient, and the day would surely come when he would know as little as his father.
Just to emphasize the advantages of life in Hartford, Connecticut, Bob Steele, the slightly infallible sports reporter of radio station WTIC, grew reminiscent. He said that when he arrived in Hartford sixteen years ago he was worth exactly twenty cents. “Today”, said Mr. Steel, "although I don’t care to boast, I am worth conservatively ten times that much."