"Inaugurating fast mail service in the downtown area, Assistant Postmaster General Ralph W. Nicholson, places an ABCD label on a mailbox outside City Hall as Mayor Tucker (center) and St. Louis Postmaster Claude I. Bakewell look on."
"Ridge Road in the county's 147-acre historical park at Jefferson Barracks leads to several old buildings being restored and to a bluff view of the Mississippi River."
"The younger set, modeling for Boyd's, are veterans of past Globe-Democrat Fashion Shows. Debbie Kirk, at left, in embroidered white pique, appeared for the second time yesterday. Ten-year-old Erin Kuehn, in a powder blue coat, has been in nine of the Globe Fashion Shows, and while Bill Downey, wearing a plaid sport coat, put in his third appearance."
"Musical director Edwin McArthur took the chorus through "East Wind," the season's third production, beginning June 26. Here they're singing 'Con-Gai' from that musical."
"New steel scenery booms, the first of their kind anywhere, will be put into operation on the Municipal Opera stage during the 1961 season. Installed at a cost of approximately $175,000, the new booms will speed up the theater's scenery changes."
"Seven employes in the metallurgical coke plant of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, 526 Catalan St., were injured Wednesday morning when gas accumulated at one end of a battery of coke ovens, causing two explosions. The accumulation was caused when a by-pass valve leaked gas into steam that was being used to purge the gas from a gas header line, preparatory to changing an orifice, according to Everett Hart, operations manager of the firm's Missouri Coke and Chemical division."