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...wonder if Al Capp realizes that his recent action [in marrying Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae] may force millions of red-blooded American boys to get married ? For years, Li'l Abner has been the bachelor's ideal. Now that he is married, only one course of action is open to us. Get hitched. Couldn't there be just one more miracle...
Joseph Americus Oneto, San Francisco bachelor, had a problem seven years ago. He worked a 44-hour week as a clerk in the city water department, but that still left a lot of spare time, and he was "sick of sitting in bars." Joe decided that the solution to his heavy-hanging leisure was painting. He began spending his weekends haunting San Francisco's galleries, and devoted his evenings to reading books on oil-painting technique and experimenting with brush and canvas. By 1950, he had taught himself enough to win the $1,000 first prize at the California...
...Known as "Mr. Mac" to his undergraduate friends, he befriended and spurred countless Princetonians. He liked intimate poetry readings in his rooms, hated formal lectures ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible"), and never qualified for his profession's union card, the Ph.D. An old bachelor who loved gossip, for years he kept an intimate diary of Princeton goings-on, one day in a fit of depression destroyed it. He is remembered in a special poetry room in Princeton's new Firestone Memorial Library, given anonymously by "a grateful advisee...
...prominent neighbors is about to become a famous writer. Waco knows Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 57, as a wealthy, friendly man who owns so much real estate that it takes all his time to manage it. But, until a few days ago, not even his close friends knew what Bachelor Cooper has been doing a good many quiet mornings and nights in the attic office in his big, late-Victorian house. For eleven years, Neighbor Cooper has been writing a novel...
Qualifications for admission are not strictly established and a college degree is not required. Sixty percent of the women enrolled in 1951-52 were between 40 and 50 years old, but ages ranged from 24 to 79. Seventy-nine percent had bachelor degrees from 21 different colleges and the same percentage were married...