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Michael H. Alderman, Alan S. Diamond, Lyle Guttu, Richard A. Herland, Thomas Lumbard, Theodore A. Miles, Carl S. Sloane, and Robert Storey will plan this year's Freshman Smoker, which will be held in March...
Tradition Shattered. Most of Burnet Maybank's ancestors were low-country planters. Senator Maybank's father was a Charleston physician, and Maybank grew up in a stately colonial house in Charleston. After World War I, Maybank became a cotton exporter, then a Charleston alderman and mayor. He shattered the modern tradition that low-country aristocrats could not win the votes of up-country farmers; in 27 years of politics he never lost an election, was elected to the Senate three times, and was unopposed for reelection this year...
Carter Higgins, chairman of the Worces ter Red Cross chapter, said dourly: "We can't condone the National's ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
...request for a food & liquor license was turned down. She appealed, and when her lawyer, Sydney Wolfe, appeared last week at the city's Zoning Board of Appeals, the Bellevue Place neighbors, the executive director of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and the 42nd Ward's alderman brought the hearings to a grumbling halt. Most truculent was Mrs. Martha Woodard, 75, operator of four Bellevue Place boardinghouses. She shouted at a reporter, "I don't think we need a bar there. The street'll be crawling with the artistic temperament, with the boys with long...
...England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous ?760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote...