Our Town October 10, 1946
Our Town October 10, 1946
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NABB~TH, PA., THURSDAY, OC~OBER 10, '1941 e PRICE FIVE CENTS .}Jli '
:VoL to-No. 48 \'r~'
a temen t Narert
ial appearance at Ar~~r. WJomCen's Club. John ~ity and that residents of Health and Civic Association. ties for trucks, spraying equipmcfll~'
will make its init A. ~ore, r., halrman of the
:'; the Narberth Methodist Church Lower Merion Township Be-
publican Committee, announeed.
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fertilizer and peat moss.
Robert M. Wilson, of 17 Shirley,
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, Sunday evening, October 13, at Wednesday.
~ '7:45 P. M., under t~e,direction of I
Speakers at the meeting will
;~ E. A. Arnold, of 533 Revere Rd., include Congressman Samuel
, J~" Iss'u~d on' "0 ne Horse Ghost Town"
Rd., secretary of the Bpard of
Zoning Adjustment, was ·one of
those who spoke against ,;he pro-
'. Merion Park.
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It. McConnell, Jr., who is seek-
Arnold, :recently appointed or- lug re-election; Lloyd H. Wood, In P 0 Dr,·ve ' , M · '5 t . posed amendment. He poifltcd out
that Shirley Rd. and Shirley Cir-
: ganist-director of the choir, has County Chalnna.n and State
il been directing the group for the Senate candidate; and Lam-
past several weeks in preparation bert C&dwal~, State House
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EdItor, Our Town,
Narberth, Penna. cle residents use their back gardens
October 8, 1946. extensively for entertaining in the
, s u m m e r and that Vick's plan wc:mld
for their program during the candidate. Merchants Plan To so.. EMIr Dear Sir: mean these gardens would have a
second of a series of Sunday eve- Was most interested in your rousing editorial by "The Spectator" view of trucks and storehouse!.
ning services.
The series started last Sunday
with a program presented by the
Coun t y t'0 Take t\dvantage of
NAiRew route
By DOROTHY M. OGDEN
Tucked away behind the
Policy Clarified After
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omp alnt 0 . f 10 Y
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iII your October 3, 1946, issue of Our Town. ''These people moved to the sub-
When a friend told me there were pictures of Narberth in the rrbs to be surrounded by shrub.
Sunday Inquirer, I was quite thrilled, and could hardly wait to look grass flowers and trees It he said'
Northeast Choral Society. of Bala Ave. business section Negro Boy at them-having a. sense of great pride com,e over me to think that "not i,y trucks, fertilizer ~nd cement
Philadelp~la. under the direction
of William Gatter.
Six people became members o f ,
Sh are Tax Narberth Borough business firms there is a machine shop which
a.re planning to cooperate in was a big help to our Air
stimulating postal volume during F'
my home town had been so honored. But pride cometh before a fall, mixers They understood
and I was quite let down when I saw the pictures which looked like they .purchased their p~oP:~ti;~1
.Henry Fried, prominent - !lIai.n the main street of a one horse ghost town 111. some early wild west that they would be protected b'
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Ave., Mr. and MIS. I. Martin Inauguration of the new five- wanted to go mto busmess ,for iug of Negro patrons in any of his problem. How long this condition will continue is a question, with all ment that he planned to screen the
Dubson, Of. 241 Iona Ave., Mrs. cent United States flag rate Oct- himself. He bought the property c!tai~ of moving picture houses. itnhe uspeimmndid dmiotderlnCmarlitkets and shops opening and being remodeled ~bj~ceti~:b)et~~i~,~~ere wOllld be no
Rebecca Smyard, of 10 Sabine ber 1 immediately brought a .. HIS statement was prompted by 0 r e a e 0 a Y. . "
Ave" and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson M. • , ~harp rise in air mail volume at that address and bUIlt hnnsclf a a protest from a, member 'of the "Merchants Had Better Get Wise" Screenmg, \\' IIson returned.
VOgts, of Montgomery Court Lower Menon and. Narberth Postmaster Kelley said Rapid ai; housc with a shop attached to the board of dircctors of the Nationa,l Not only must the outward appearance of Narberth improve, but wo~)~ not keep Ollt the smelt (If
AP~a,.tments. tax k cglle~~or ~er: notlfieg tl~S mail service, offered for t~e first back. There he created an en- Association for tht Advancement o[ the merchants themselves had better get Wise to themselves and fertlhzer.
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P., saldll t~at 'IIi~~n able to make up for inability to serve their customers, who have had Also on the agenda of the special
c to go without service or supplies, and in most cases (more so than Council meeting was a request by
- determine the cost of tax form delivery is cut. A lower price re- mmonh d , ~ndllana w1.Jere 1.Je studHied theater manager s office and the. re- with the tradesmen) have cooperated and not complained except in Guy C'I
Voters , will be held Friday, Octo ec amca engmeenng e quest repeated I roy e, 0 f P enn Va 11 ey, for
bel' 25, at 8 P. M., at the Ard- printing, envelopes, paper and quires one thing to succeed-larg- .•.. . ' . . ' a half Joking manner. a change in the zoning of his prop-
~ postage. For the Township's white er volume," he said. then went mto busmess With his The case was CIted to Fned .by Narberth A Ghost Town . erty at Woodbine and Montgomer);
m~l~e J-l:er:;~e~::b~;~o:'n;"ited to tax .form, which includes County. Meanwh~le, ~ostmaster Kel.ley ~~~e.a~~ f~:s b~~sn f:~~~; di~~r Ray~ond Pace Alexa~de:, Phlla- TIle hoUses and roads of Narb.erth have done their best to Aves" Narberth, which he plans
attend the meeting candidates for Institution, Township and School reported, air mall letters are bemg and he became head of the busi: delphia attorney, as .an l~f~tnge!11ent improve themselves. Like you, we fee~ It is high time the Business sec- to the zoning ordinance which pro-
Governor United States Senator taxes, the County Will pay half of receIved at the post office with th h h h db of the ;Pennsylvania. CI"II ~Ights tion did its part, or it won't be long before Narberth will really be- to sell to the Tidewater Associated
United States Representative from the cost of printing, envelopes, five-cent rate applies anywhere nells.. oug se a een a part- Law. Fned assured hIm that It was come the ghost town it n~w appears to be. Oil Co., for a gasoline station. "
;,Montgomery County, State Sen- paper and POSt8g~. that. the Ameri~an flag flies, 111.- ner smce ~93 • . T an unfortunate error on the part of There Is much good In Narberth, let us make our good better, Use of the lot for this purpose
rator and State Representative The County wI~I. assume pro- oludmg all UnIted States pos- },{a'!y M:alll Lme and Narbertb the WaY!1e theater st~ff an~ was and our better best, so instead of being called, "the dump heap of 1'.·ould neces!litate an amendment
from the 1st District. The candi- rata cost of all billIng on ";hic.h sessions. It is also applicable to people were employed at Cross' not a po!tcy of the Fned cham. ,the Main Line," we wUl deserve to be called the garden spOt, built on hibts additional gas stations within
~ates will be asked to discuss county taxes appear, and It 15 the armed forces abroad, and to ,during the war. At that time, wom- ' the Golden Rule, and thereby rising to heigh~s as yet undreamed of - the borough limits.
questions presented by the League believed the County will pay aU Canada and Mexico. en were taken on-including: Barney Fischer Plans "Narberth, the community of homes served by the .mo~t beautiful, There were no portests madc to
;,and will also answer questiom ~osu. i!lcurred by Lo'Yer Merion
from the audience.
D Ro K M h U f N
1U billIng the county s personal
property tax.
P' Ubl.,sher MRS. TENNY EDSON, of 833
Buck Lane, Haverford, and MRS. L. M. - Radnor Fete
JANE TOWNE WATSON, of 200 . 'Tis rumored that grand prep- me." John 12:32.
' m o d e r n , and friendly business section on the Main Lme.
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, wlil draw all men unto
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Croylc's petition.
Benjamin Ludlow. attorney for
Croyle, told the Council members
berJi, Di:ectdr otrth: Fe~ Pl:~:
etarium of the Franklin Institute, CO. Medical Society 5UC b Narberth Ave., MRS. BETTY arations are to be made In cele- ,
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(Writer's name Withheld upon request) that the present prohibition against
gas 5tation5 is, in hi~iopinion, tin-
erlon W oman FeIrs t 0 f Her
PATCHEN of Sabine Ave.; MRS. bration of the 50th year of Red-
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will be moderator of the meeting.
Mrs. Hug'h Montgomery, of Ard- To Meet on., Oct. cum s GUY PETERS of 204 Elm Ter- nor-Lower Merion football rivalry.
rCaHce, LLandf SMNRS' KAY MIT- This Main Line classic is one of,
constitutional and cre;l.te5 a mono,
poly in fayor of the existing gas
more, is chairman of the commit- A regular meeting of Cle Main
}eli in~harge of ~e meet~:i ~e Line Branch of the Montgomery
A t '57 E b
o . ar erth Ave., Nar- the oldest school 'and township
berth., JAMES DOUGHERTY rivalries in America, and, much
from ov~r at the B.ala.Cynw.yd tradition is involVed with the an-
Sex to T'eac h a t Wh art'on station~ in thc borough. In addi-
tion, 'he pointed out, it leaves the
way.open for the establishment of
o ow g are on er comm ee. County Medical Society will be Post OffIce worked nights dUrlng nual battle between the two ad- ' l e s $ desirable types of business.
Mrs. Robert W. Williams, Mrs. held Monday, Oct. 14, at 8.30P. , the war, as did RICHARD GIB· joining townships. Elizabeth Wallace of 521 Grey- the veterans Not like before the He argued further that the cor·
Thomas L. Kane, Mrs. Daniel M. at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Dr. William Francis Reddington, BONS, the Cynwyd barber. Re~- Much water, has run under the sto eRd Merion ~ 24 years old, war, when so many boys :were ncr, at present zoned for r.csiden-
~~illCMrS. J~es A. Lynd, Mrs. Charles H. Classen, Secretary, has an executive of Triangle Publi- .Jar employees from aroundabout tn- darn since ,that Fall day 50 years he: red 'hair and the honor of majoring In "fraternities" and tial purposes, would constitute a
I red ooper, s. Charles Platt, a~nounced. cations; Inc., of Philadelphia, died elude, GEORGE GERENBECK, ago when the first game was belli the first woman to teach "house party" weekends. traffic hazard if a house were erect·
~sl ~b¥t IH. :ilki~Sh::' SMft· Guest speaker will be Dr. Claude of a heart ailment Friday night of Bryn Mawr Ave., Cynwyd, TOM played. And although some of in fhe University of Pennsyl- "I ,never planned to teach,O ed there, as it w~uld obstruct vision.
MUS p' 1 ~r, ill rs.~ : t Bertrand, of McGill Un1versi~, at his home, Conshohocken State KLOSS of School Lane, Ardmore, the grandchildren of the' original vania's Wharton SChool, of Fin- Miss Wallace says. "but it was The gas statIon, on the other
Wr~h a~ ~v~ K s. ~h ~ Montreal, Canada, who wUl dlS- and Righter's MUl Rds., Penn Val- HAURY BLANK, of Bryn Mawr players are now competing the, ance and Commerce. too wonderful an opportunity to hand, would be set ba~k 100 feet
e era ,an • enne . cuss "The Roles of Sympathec- leY He was 57 Gables and DOROTHY BURCH- rivalry is just as ~tense and the ' iss WaU ce turn down ,Penn's manpower from each street, he saId, and thc
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tomy 111. Our Present Medical
Practice." "
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tl f of Hamilton Court IApartments in overaU 1nte~est, covera a much ri~~e:shagl°jp-~uate haA" n~ barrel is empty now and when it Tidewater company would put in a
on, & na ve 0 Ardmore,.. ' , wider range. ' td a h w~U~d be teaching a fUls again, I'll go back to my re- 20·foot radius curb at its own ex-
, Savannah. DJ., ,was a resident of Everyone ,except DORa- A combined'luncheon otthe e&. II bi
Mone and Banking in search work." "pense. .
' RId P Ii P t" Sh Ii Penn Valley since January, 1944, THY BURCH does the work Radnor-Lower MeI1.on graduates ;~~~n sch~l's Finance De- Teaches 3 Sections He added that a commerCIal prop-
D urbIn ee ecte ;0 ee rac Ice 00 ng when he was transferred from the ' of a machinist ••.and thOSI" of the ~t 50 years ~iU be held partment. ot that she isn't quaU- She is teaching two sections of ,erty would be of greater revenUf
Fire Co. Director Haverford Township police are Chicago office of Triangle PubU- wht;l were employed by C!o.s on the" day of the ia~e, an~ fled for the job, because EliZa- 26 students each and also value to ~h~. borough. .
receiving a six weeks' course in cations. dunng the, ~r were tratnecl Barney ~her, Lower Me on, 1m, beth Wallace knows plenty about teaches a similar course in the B.oth petItIons were taken. ,tinder
William H. Durbin, of 400 An- fire arms instruction. The course, He was an officer in World Wal' on the. premIses.• , ~o~cer for ,th: P:~O y~~rsi has what makes the ~rican dollar Women's College. No comment a~':lseme~t, and the Council s ~e-
thwyn Rd., Merion, was re-elected which started Saturday is being I and held the Silver Star for ser- Add!t!ons to. ~e sbop were' een ch~n Y, ,sc 00 s aa go around. has been heard from the girls CISlon Will ?C announccd. at ItS
president of the Narberth Fire taught by William Naylor an vice with the 85th Aero Squadron made In the thirtleswhen, the cha~ Of, the aft.air. Vassar Graduate yet. but the men are very pleased. rcgular meeting 1vJ:onday night.
Company at a meeting of the FBI agent from the Philadel- in France. He was a member of business ex?andecL The Ifarage. ' • 'She graduated from Vassar in "The girl not only knows her •
Board of Directors held Monday phla office. the American Legion.' was added and upstairs In the Stricken With Polio UI~3 with Honors in Economics stUff, b~~ she is charming-in t h e , ~
night in Elm Hall. I Mr. Reddington is sUrvived by ~ag~ there is a knotty-pine of- and was snapped up by the Fed- bargain, reported one, of the FranklIn Schlegel, 'I'
Other officers reelected are: his wife, the former Dolores fl~e With fluorescent lightinc, Linda Esslinger, elght-year·old eral Reserve Bank in Philadel- boys. When asked if his 1lnance f I D' A 47 -
Franklin C. Hutchinson vice- At Lafayette Farnsworth; two daughters, Mrs. t!Uck g;reen carpets and Vene- daughter of Mr. and,Mrs. George phia. WhUe working there in the instru~tor was prettr, an ex-G.I. 0 Ba a, les t •
resident. Richard M G'I\i' t _ William Van Auken, of Cambridge, tlan blinds .•• , . . P. Esslinger, of 615 Broa.d, Acres Research Department, Miss Wal- sai,d, Well, she isn t prett,y, but . ,
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RBI·· s'. rea Colin E. Browne, of 229 Wayne Mass., and Suzanne Reddington' ~rany a Olght, Highland Ave., Rd., Penn Valley, is in Bryn Mawr, lace was busy studying Economics he s very attractive. She s the Franklin K. Schlegel, edltol and
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5 cr I~ rard d B essm~ fRan. Ave., and Jack Middleton, ot 5 and a son,' William Frederick Red: reSIdents ca~ see those fluorescent Hospital suffering a mild case of and Finance in the Graduate kind of gal ou bring home to publisher of The Veteran, died
c a te e a y, an urns. est, Shirley Rd., Narberth, are among dington a stUdent at Valley Forge lI~ht5 gleammg from the baek of polio, Township Health Officer SChool of the U. of P. meet Mother. ,
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sccre ary. 453 freshmen students enrolled at Milit 'A d the .cross establisbment' where Robert J Thomas' announced this One of the Younger, non-vets Hospital as a result of injuries re-
Reelected to the Board of Di- Lafayette College ary ca emy. "Bill" is working late hunched over week • , S h e received her Master of Arts confeSSed he whistled when Miss ceived in Cle First World War.
rectors: John H. Jefferies, Jr., . Funeral services were held Mon- his drawing board' figuring out 'A' tud ' t t th B 1 .C....' d Degree in Finance tbehis past AUg- Wallace walked into the class- Mr. SChlegel, who was 47, lived
Ernest Jenkins John A Mowrer day afternoon at Oliver H. Bair's, n h' d ' , s en a e a a .. -wr lISt. ll'hree days f ore schoo1 room "But" he went. on, "when at 36 Bala Ave" Bala.
Horace T. S~edley, William s: Twenty Are Drawn 1829 Chestnut st., Philadelphia. ew mac me eSlgns •• , Publ1C School, dLm.da ~~' S~ck:n oJ)ened, with an eye to the Doc- that '1irstclass ended, it was a Mr. Schlegel edited The Veter-
Howard, Albert H. ,Nulty and Mrs. Burial ,was m West Laurel Hill W ednesday an waa en e tor of Philosophy Degree, she different story. I was afraid of an, a monthly publication, from.
Arthur Goldsmith.
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For Jury Duty Cemetery. ' F '1 SI
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hospitll ldi Frida af~lri hber hill- went to Bee :Professor Charlt;s getting lost in high finance, but his Bala home, where he lived fol'
ness was arnose d as po 0 y er Whittlesey, head of Wha~n s Mbs Wallace makes it as un<ier- the last five years. He formerly
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taineld 200 ~~mb:;'~ u~f e: M~~~:
ccNh'i F' A . . h: Twenty Main Liners have been
chosen for jury duty at sessions
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Despite Dynamite ~~:ow~c~anjrs~:enas a bra- Finance Department.
', .,.,. Miss Wallace expected advice keeping."
standable as double-entry book- lived in Runnemede, N. ~.
. In addition to his Wife, Helen
gOlllF'Y H I y Ired ssoclatJon ~t of Criminal Court Norristown f o r . M d M R b B f Mr. Esslinger Js the fonner vice and what she got was a job. Dr. Started At Vassar E. Schlegel, he is survived by a
the Ire al Satur ay October :I. t~e weeks beginning November 4
and December 2.
Married Saturday .
281/M~rris ~d A:d~or7ap~
and fami! Ie
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president of the George Esslinger Whittlesey asked her to accept an Mi~ Wallace confided tl1at it daug~ter, Betty; his mother, Mrs.
"ell S rd y . r and Son Brewing Co., PhUadel- inatructorship in his department. aU started when she ~ook Vassar's H. Franklin Schlegel, of Reading;
Baseball Playoffs
They are: Rebecca R. EVans, The marriage of Misa Margaret despite It ~ic~t wf d :tu
Edna Hamilton, Martha Jackson, B. Semple, daughter of Mrs. in the bas I;
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~Ig phia, and is now an executive of He rushed her through an inter- elementary 1hiance course because and two sisters.
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~ ,0 y amI e s ore the Armstrong Co~ Co., of Lan- view with ,Dean Canby Balder- mil wanted to be able to argue Funeral se!vices were held
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Adele Raymond, Martha Lex and Brooks Semple, of 815 Wickfteld emen • • caster. ston and Monday' morning Miss intel11gently with a Merion bank- Tuesday evenmg from the Hew-
The Main Line Baseball Margaret Layton, aU of Ardmore; Rd., Wynnewood, to ElwoOd WeU- Bob, fr., 15, and a chum, DIck, ' Wallace met her first class. er-neighbor about New Deal Itt Funeral Home, 248 W. Girard
League 'series concluded Sun- Catherine Higgins Elsie Wetzler man Wright, Jr., son of Mr. ana Heylmun, 14, ,668 Woodcrest Ave., 4 B I (: d M "The first oay was the tough monetary policies. Ave. He was buried with fuJ1
day when Narberth took the Martha Warner, Frences Kerrig~ Mrs. Wright, of Oakland, Calif., Ardmore ,Par'k, found the dYl1am!te
title for the 19th time. But the and Mary Jensen, of Haverford; will take place Saturday in the Ardmore Par~, found ,th~ lynamlte Enroll At Lafa'yeite
a a- 'ynwy e,n est" says Miss Wallace. "Most oi
"I never dreamed !'d be teach- military bonOl'S Wednesday iII Ax-
the boys walked 111. and then left ir the subject some day," she liIIgton Cemetery, Va.
belated playo1Js, colliding and Jane Watson, of WynnewOod. Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Saturday while wandenng along, , ' , ,when they spotted 'me because said, "but here I am and I loVe ,
conflicting wIth the football Katherine Jones, Margaret B. Mawr, 111. the presence of the lin- Darby Creek. John B. Kane, Jr., of 304 Cyn_ they ftgured they were in the It." GIRL S CLUB ORGANIZED
season hereabouts, has Incurred Adams and Curtis C. Meigs, of mediate familles. Canon Ernest They ~urned it over to Haverford WYd Rd., Earle ,S. Buckley, Jr." of wrong classrocnn. I had to rush ' A Girls' GraY Club will be or-
the' wrath of our Mr. Ford. Bala-Cynwyd; Reed Knox, Jr., of C. Earp wUl officiate. TownshIp police Sunday morning. 26 Ovei'ill Rd.' NortOn D. 'Ferm, out into the hall and talk them Marion Park Dance ganlzed at West Manayunk un-
Don't, mills Jack Ford's in- Penn Valley; Thomas Morgan, of Mr. Daniel Reynolds wUl serve Monday, officials of the Old Hay- 2nd, .of 118 Maple Ave., and David to.tocorning back. And then I A Fall Dance sponsored by the der the leadership of Miss Chris-
formative' eolumn, the Sports Villanova; Jennie Lowry and Mrs. as matron of honor" and Miss den Quarry, lIe.ar Darby Creek, re- • Miller, of 42,
Scene, on the Qoru ",e nerw
en Rd., all WII8 atraJd of the disciPUrieprobriMerion Park Civic Association 'WUl tine Southard. The first meetinr
this Ray Tennehill. of Bryn Mawr; Florence D. Re'bmann, as maid of ported that t~Flr powder house h:,d ot Bala-Cynwyd, are ,enrolled in lem. But. there is no problem.' . be held Friday, November 22, at will be hel!! on Saturday at the
week. n'•• mat fur Main and Mrs. John H. Stormfeltz, of E~~tor. Mr. Wright will act as been broken mto and the dynamlt the freshman i,clau of Lafa;vette "The students at college thes the Cynwyd Club. Adm1allion Is school at 12.30 P. M. Each girl
IJnen. Penn Wynne. "7'" man , for his son.
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taken., ' C o l l e. ., ,. PllI' are !ferT b1tenae.t eepec1alJY' b, invitation 0DLv. wUl bring her .
own lunch.
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