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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 45

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45
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....90 INTOWN EXTRA, DECEMBER 1,1988 Peachtree Parade to Launch Nine-Day Festival if; ily-focused with expanded areas and new additions for every age group," said Barbara Bazzel, chairman. "The majority of these offerings are also unique to the festival' and the holiday season." Some of the Southeast's top designers, florists and architects have helped in creating the winder wonderland. Ticket prices are $5 for adults and $3 for children and senior citizens. Information: 325-NOEL The 12th annual Festival of Trees benefitting Henrietta Egles-ton Hospital for Children kicks off with the parade Saturday at 10:15 a.m. Starting at Edgewood Avenue and Peachtree Street, it will proceed to West Peachtree Street and end at Pine Street for a distance of 1.3 miles.

The procession will include 10 award-winning bands, 11 floats, four giant balloons for Macy's in New York and assorted helium balloons, hundreds of storybook costumed characters and clowns, and of course, Santa Claus. The festival itself, in the Atlanta Apparel Mart at Spring and Harris streets, will continue through Sunday, Dec. 11. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

daily except Sundays, noon to 6 p.m., and Monday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. A record attendance exceeding 60,000 is expected during the holiday extravaganza. 'The 1988 festival is highly fam ACTOR CORDELUStaff Shirley Brady plays one of her compositions, 'Waltz to Her lullaby to Jessica McClure was played by a radio station in Midland, Texas after the toddler's rescue, she said. Nobility I shrug and a smile.

Would her mother come to "She did in 1967 and stayed nine months and couldn't stand it She didn't like the fact that raised in a well-to-do Hungarian family, was having at that time to help raise my kids by scrubbing floors." She tries to visit her mother, living alone in a tiny apartment in Szolnok, once every two years, and on her recent return found the Hungarians bitter over a hefty tax hike. "Everybody works for the state, and they increase taxes but not their pay. "They have taken on so many Western customs, like the rock and roll junk, and movies and television shows about crime American shows with the Hungarian language dubbed in. "It is not safe to walk down the street any more. "But the church is alive and strong.

I was raised a Lutheran, and now there are Hungarian Baptist and Methodist movements too. "I am a Methodist now." But she is no longer a baroness in her homeland. "The Communists did away with everything about the nobility." ll From Page 1 led, who thought she'd be wise to go by another name and dubbed her Shirley Sharp, she said. "Shirley Sharp" met and married an American sergeant, Carroll Burris, and arrived in the United States in 1948. Sgt Burris was stationed first at Ft Benning, and the growing family was then moved about to Ft.

McPherson and Ft Gordon, and to Germany. The couple later divorced, and she married John Brady, a paint store manager in Burbank Calif. In 1984, after Mr. Brady's death, she came to Atlanta because several of her children had settled in Georgia. Her first job here was as housekeeper for Prince Faisal M.

Saud Al Kabir. "I now feel very much at home here with Mr. and Mrs. John Ramsey and their young son," she said-She couldn't bear living in Hungary under the Communist regime, she S3 id "I haven't got anything there, and with my children grown and living in various places, I haven't got anything here," she said with a I I j.M iiU .1.111:1 7:1 i l-WRl SAXONIES CUT LOOPS BERBERS PLUSHES COMMERCIAL LEVEL LOOPS FAMOUS NAME BRANDS MARKED WAY, WAY BELOW WHOLESALE COST! SELECT FROM THE FINEST ''QUALITY PRETTIEST COLORS kl ANYWHERE! 4 If LARGEST INVENTORY IN GEORGIA! -m 7 jn iu 1 1 i hi in. rxr- -wj lit ii it ii i i yt- Ms -v ir43.tiD,?.i?k 5 HOURS: I fl 1 1 Ffc- 'isaB Specials I 1 $0095 "Som change ar for good" all Hair, Skin, Nails, Makeup and SO COO Cok Design.

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