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...nickname "Old Reliable Wilson" for his industrious work as president and treasurer of Theta Chi fraternity and member of the Cal State interfraternity council, the college student disciplinary board and the Blue Key honorary society. Last week he was elected one of the school's top five all-round seniors...
...delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...
Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
...million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
Lost Money. Now 34, Ailey is the son of a farm worker his mother hasn't seen for more than 30 years. An all-round athlete in high school, he gave up sports to join the Lester Horton Dance Studio. After 31 semesters of college, he came to Manhattan and appeared in several Broadway productions, finally saved enough to form his own small troupe. By 1961 the company had worked up to four concerts a year, "all the time losing money like mad." The State Department spotted it and in 1962 sent it on a successful tour...