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36 Christmas cookie recipes children will love (1962)

Children love them Here is a group of irresistible cookies of every kind which you'll enjoy making as much as giving. Cookies are part of the Christmas fun; share their making and eating with your children a... Read more...

Make your own gift wrapping bags (1956)

Make your own gift wrapping bags They're gifts themselves with many "after" uses Have you ever gone through wrapping gymnastics trying to make a pretty package of an odd-shaped gift? The easiest way is ... Read more...

Dazzling, jewel-like Christmas balloon craft (1967)

Make these for Christmas by Dorothy Lambert Brightbill Start your holiday decorating now by making our dazzling, jewel-like Christmas balloons. They'll lift tree trimming to new heights -- send spirits soar... Read more...

Wild & wonderful new ways to wrap gifts (1961)

Great gift wrap ideas for bulky & odd-shaped kitchen gifts The best way to gift-wrap a bulky or odd-shaped kitchen appliance or utensil is -- don't! Give it a fanciful shape, instead -- with Christmas pape... Read more...

Sweet sugarplums: Christmas dresses for little girls (1962)

Every little girl wants a dress for Christmas Sweet as a sugarplum: A tucked shirtwaist top, a wide, gathered velveteen skirt and a bias-striped sash that ties in a big bow make this dress a very special one f... Read more...

Stage a crafty Christmas claybake! (1964)

Christmas claybake In that magical and ever-quickening flurry of days and weeks before Christmas, when lists are drawn up, gifts cached away, parties and visits joyously planned, there are also, for most famil... Read more...

Merry & bright Christmas centerpieces (1962)

Christmas centerpieces At Christmas time, you want to set a bountiful, beautiful table, with your very best china, a cherished old lace or damask cloth or a special new one in brightly-colored fabric. You want... Read more...

The Housewife’s Yuletide Endurance Game (1964)

Yuletide Endurance Game Light Housekeeping's Jolly Yuletide Endurance Game An exciting test of nerve designed for the fearless housewife at holiday time >> Click here to see a larger version! ... Read more...

How to craft clever Christmas ornaments from paper! (1960)

So pretty, such fun to do! One of the nicest Christmas customs we know is having both young and old make ornaments for the tree! These are paper -- so simple and imaginative, you'll want to pack them away ... Read more...

Three easy & classic Cool Whip dessert recipes (1971)

Simply spectacular These great-looking dessert spectaculars that make you a hero, even though they're so easy to make... desserts to please all ages. Find dessert recipes for Sour Cream Bavarian, Nesselrode Pi... Read more...

Doctor, doctor: The future supply of physicians (1958)

The "supply" of physicians: A look ahead To keep the "1955 supply" of physicians per 100,000 people, about 22 new medical schools would have to be opened between now and 1970, according to medical educators. ... Read more...

Kitchen decor: Cooking on a sunny island (1965)

Cooking on a sunny island The cook's always on vacation in this gleaming California kitchen. Surrounded by gay tropical flowers, fiesta colors, and sandy-white stretches of counter space, she gets meals in a... Read more...

The truth about Hollywood draft deferments during WW2 (1942)

The truth about Hollywood deferments by "Fearless" Yes, a lot of the stars have been deferred -- and they haven't been able to tell the public why! Here's the inside information. Celebrities and milit... Read more...

Humphrey Bogart: Things I don’t like about myself (1942)

Things I don't like about myself Humphrey Bogart (as told to Sara Hamilton) I haven't the guts to stop smoking. To even try. I don't like it. It shows lack of stamina. Got a cigarette on you, kiddie? M... Read more...

The private life of Judy Garland Rose (1942)

David Rose was the first of Judy Garland's five husbands. They met when she was just 17 (and he was still married to Martha Raye), got engaged when she was 18, and married shortly after she turned 19. While the... Read more...

Big rings: More punch than price (1952)

Big rings: New whoppers have more punch than price In jewelry, intrinsic value does not always coincide with fashion. The display value of a good but diminutive half-carat diamond, which costs about $350, fa... Read more...

Comparing old-time courting & a red-hot date (1927)

Old-time courting & a red-hot date: 25 years ago and today Old-time courting 25 years ago (1902) The start of a heavy courtship. Twenty-five years ago. when a feller began flinging nickels around the ... Read more...

The newest beach clothes & bathing suits (1955)

Swimsuits: Quaintness up-to-date Old-fashioned cottons with ruffles still leave skin bare for the beach Although they are brief in size and brash in color, the newest beach clothes make the wearers look som... Read more...

120+ gorgeous, glamorous actresses of the 1920s

A new age of cinema celebrities While fame itself was nothing new in the 1920s, the recent introduction of moving pictures had transformed the very meaning of the word. Indeed, the film stars of the late 191... Read more...

War: Japan launches reckless attack on US (1941)

Japan launches reckless attack on U.S. In desperate gamble on victory or suicide it strikes first blow at Hawaii Out of the Pacific skies last week, World War II came with startling suddenness to Americ... Read more...

How Cary Grant lives: The movie star at home (1940)

Cary Grant cannot stand being shut in. So he recently bought a two-storied, twelve-roomed stucco house on the exclusive beach at Santa Monica.

Fashion lessons from the ’20s: How to spoil the effect of beautiful clothes (1926)

How to spoil the effect of beautiful clothes It isn't what you wear, it's how you wear it Fashion before and after photos No doubt you have heard the epigram about "It's not so much what you say, as ... Read more...

Howard Hughes: Hollywood’s secret heartbreaker (1942)

Hollywood's secret heartbreaker The names of his romances are startling. The details were kept secret -- until now by Adele Whitely Fletcher A Hollywood wolf stalks the fair and easy prey of the film c... Read more...

Ronald Reagan: How to make yourself important (1942)

How to make yourself important ... and strangely enough, love has a lot to do with it, in a way you'd least suspect By Ronald Reagan (as told to Gladys Hall) A fine and fancy storyteller holds his punc... Read more...

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