MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 19, 1948

¶ From the pulpit of Boston's South Baptist Church, the Rev. Louis W. West offered his congregation some political advice: "Most of us in this church are Republicans and the male members have a grand opportunity to show their party loyalty. I suggest they should all grow a Governor Thomas E. Dewey mustache."

¶ A news picture from Phoenix, Ariz, (see cut) gave many a U.S. citizen a fascinated sense of peeking into a neighbor's photograph album. It showed Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger helping granddaughter Anna Eleanor Boettiger dress for her wedding last week to...

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