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Daily News liiinen Therese Bonney Fights New War PARIS (AP) "Sortof amira- cle happened. She seemed to rise out of the ruins, half woman, half warrior." That's a 1944 description of Miss Therese Bonney, semi- retired American photographer and benefactress living in Paris. "To the peasants, that's whatl must have looked like in ski pants and helmet," commented the woman who has been an important figure in Europe's artistic life and wars since 1921. Miss Bonney added the title Congressional lobbyist to her career this summer. She went to Washington to argue for legislation that would extend Medicare to estimated 200,000 people who would be receiving it except that they live outside the United States.

She would also lie to secure pensions for the civilians without the usual "militarized" status who carried out secret behind-the-lines missions for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Not long ajjo she sat pouring over a file of citations, decorations certificates and laudatory letters. She slid out a yellow- edged magazine clipping. "This one compares me to Gertrude Stein," she said with a jiggle of mirth. "Of course I knew Gertrude Stein.

I photographed her many times." Miss Bonney seems to have photographed the greatest figures in the Parisian art world, beginning in the days they had to be taken with flash powder. Many of the prints still adorn her apartment. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., and a 1916 graduate of the University of California, Miss Bonney came to France in 1919 to take her Ph. D. She planned to be a pro- fessor.

She would have been a good one, too, except that she was drawn into more exciting things like frequenting the "ecole de Paris" artists, covering wars, going on OSS behind the lines missions, and actually playing a role in postwar rehabilitation. Now at age 71, the new and different never seem to stop. She is currently making plans for a four-story 13th century tower that the French village she adopted gave her, for life, in gratitude for services rendered when the village was nearly destroyed. Gestures of gratitude fall Miss Bonney's way more often, she says, than checks from publishers. This is because somany of her stories have penetrated the camera's eye to the woman's heart.

Miss Bonney was the "in" photographer among Claude Monet, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Anatole France, Picasso, Chagall, Hemingway, Sibelius and Maillot. Fascinated by the niileau, she joined it, often helping by arranging first exhibitions outside France. Through her, Georges Rouault's first painting entered the Pairs Museum of Modern Art, and he was so moved he did her portrait six times. She has been painted by Raoul Dufy, by RobertDelaunay, by Jean Lucrat, and has been sculpted twice by the Spaniard MateoHer- nandez.

The busts are now in the Prado. "Of all of them," she said, "Dufy was my dearest friend. I arranged his trip to America for Cortisone treatment when it was still rationed, and it prolonged his life two years." BORN Bonney as she appeared after receiving Finnish decoration in 1940 doesn't like to have her picture taken now but she has photographed most of the important people in art and war since 1921 in Europe. Scrapbook Here's some Christmas card advice that should be followed by teen-agers and children as well as adults: Give time and thought to your selection of cards, for, like gifts they play an important part in the coming holiday picture. Along tvith a wonderful variety' general cards, you'll find a grand collection of special cards mother, for dad, and other relatives, for special friends, your doctor, your pastor, your postman, and so on.

Be sure to take your dressing the cards. Do a neat writing or printing job, and check each envelope after you've ad- ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY A Gift Collection of Fragrance! Give her something to remember for a long time. Choose a lovely gift in an array of scents. Cherub Soap Dish assorted colors and accented soaps shaped like roses $2 American Spice Pomander, Little China Balls filled with sachet to hang in a closet $2 Colonial Apothecary Guest Soap Jar See through Jar with scented soaps 2.50 Pomander holders filled with sachet for your drawer or closet $2 Ceramic Hand Painted Apothecary Jar Lovely Jars filled with bubble bath 3.50 CHRISTMAS STORE HOURS SHOP PENNEYS DAILY 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

SHOP SATURDAY 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. dressed it, to make certain you haven't made any mistakes. You'll make it easier on the post office and at the same time insure your cards reaching their destinations. And be sure to mail then early Here's a laundry day tip: Put baby socks and other smaE items into a discarded nylon stocking before tossing them into the washing machine.

Knot the stocking and it becomes a bag that keeps the little items together and makes it easy to remove without sorting. And here's some advice for the home seamstress: When selecting a pattern for a child's dress, blouse or skirt, choose the pattern size that is closest to her measurement Never use age as a determining factor. Children the same age differ widely in height, weight and build. Auction Christmas Desserts During ap.re-Christmaslunch- eon last week, the Top of the World Gardeners Club held a unique auction to exchangemem- ber's favorite holiday desserts. Each member brought holiday candies and cookies in Christmas wrappings.

A special feature of the afternoon was a preview of holiday fashions presented by the Northern Commercial Company. Presenting the fashions were Mrs. Thomas Flynn and Mrs. James Guckert, moderator. Models were Mrs.

William Parham, Mrs. Joseph A. Worrall and Miss Sandy Myres. Special guests were the members of the Fairbanks Garden Club. Other guests were Mesdames Boberg, Charles Sargent, James Magoffin, Carl E.

Johnson, Denny Breaid, Glenn Greer, Keith G. Porter, Barney Kopf, Lawrence Irving, K.M, Rae, Eugene Mackin, Les Rogers, Clair J. Lammers, Alden Wilbur. Austin Ewart, A. T.

Shoot, John B. Townshend, Robert T. Hufman, Robert Boswell, T.K. Downes and Robert J. Mitchell.

Winner of the door prize was Mrs. Allan H. King, president of the Fairbanks Garden Club. Yule Card Etiquette Being an early bird with your Christmas cards means you'll have time to write little messages on many of them. Handmade card, too, are warm and thoughtful, and flatter thepeoplewhore- ceive them.

Family photographs, by the way, make terrific art for your Christmas greetings. Red or green ink is cheery and bright for addressing your envelopes and writingyourmessages. Even if you have a great many cards to send out, try to do a neat, careful job. Make sure each card envelope will look attractive when it at its destination. Ink stains and smudgy sealing are inexcusable.

Mailmen Colled Paperbacks For GIs in Vietnam Some mailmen in New York have been collecting more than mail these last few months and their extra collections will help brighten the leisure of our fighting forces in Vietnam. The letter carriers say they want. our men fighting in Vietnam to know they haven't been forgotten at home. And they have collected more than 50,000 paperback books. These will be delivered to the Navy, flown from Floyd Bennett Field, and distributed to our soldiers.

The book drive started when letter carrier Raymond Mason, who has a son serving in Vietnam, fellow mailman Eugene Ciaflone that one of the complaints of the men in his son's outfit was that they didn't have enough reading material. So they decidedtodosomething about it, and began collecting paperback books from residents on their routes. Soon otherletter carriers started to collect, and the idea continued to spread to other post offices. Ciaflone contacted the Navy command at Floyd Bennett Field and it promised aid in delivering the books to Vietnam. It is hoped that more than 50,000 paperback books will arrive in time to make a lot of servicemen's Christmas brighter.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, December 8, UA Toy Collection A unique collection of toys and games, used by Alaskan Indians and Eskimos, went on display for the first lime this week in theUni- versity of Alaska Museum. Kowinski, museum director, said the games are part of the Hhoda Thomas Collection, donated to the museum late last spring. Mrs. Thomas was district principal for Bureau of Indian Affairs rural schools and well- known in Alaskan education circles until her death in a plane crash near Fort Yukon in 1965. Over a period of manyyears rural areas of the state, she collected Native Athabascan and Eskimo materials and handicraft articles that totalled 174 pieces at the time the collectionwasdo- nated to the U.A.

Rowinski noted: "The exhibitmaterials, on display here until Dec. 15, are representative of nearly all types of games and toys used by Eskimo and Athabascan children." And he added; "The collection includes tops of various types, dart games, an Athabascan game called 'Cupand Pin', Eskimo yoyos, rattles, 'falling sticks' old gambling game, an old form of hand-made ice-skates, balls, and, of course, dolls, plus a few older games many people are not familiar with." Esther Billman, faculty member at Sheldon Jackson Junior College in Sitka and also curator of the Sheldon Jackson Museum, prepared the toy exhibit She is identifying and cataloguing items in the collection as part of a graduate study in anthropology, Kowinski said. The donation of another collection of Alaska native artifacts to the of A Museum also was announced this week. Agnes Schlosser of Elfin Cove, now retired after many years of teaching in rural Alaska, has given her collection gathered during the 1920s and 1930s in the southwestern and western parts of the state. The collection includes a woman's caribou parka made in Akaik; a pair of high wolf-skin mukluks from Bethel; wolf mittens made at Holy Cross on the Yukon River, a miniature dog sled and fishwheel from small kayak from Kotzebue.

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