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...There are magazines exclusively devoted to the raising of cattle, dogs and flowers, but none to the most important work in the world-raising children." With this observation, in 1926, a 30-year-old Manhattan bachelor launched Children-the Magazine for Parents. For his monthly, Publisher George J. Hecht,who combed the birth statistics for his mailing list, set a circulation of 100,000 as his wildest dream. It soon came true-and then some...
...advanced degrees, Haldy will lend him some ("And really, I've never lost a cent"). Later, as the years pass, he keeps writing to his old students, following their careers to universities and research laboratories across the U.S. "I keep in touch with them all," says Bachelor Haldy. "They are my family, and there are too many of them for me ever to be lonely...
Michigan. Competing stoutly against a bevy of capable housewives, Clifford Sterns, a young bachelor who drives a school bus for a living, won four blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist...
...game fish, says Fishing, is "any fish caught on rod and line, putting up any fight, and not thrown back in disgust by the angler." That includes even the "detested, despised, and berated" carp, a "keen-brained root-eater" as hard to hook as a confirmed bachelor...
...states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand-new University of Washington at Seattle, decided to do something about the situation in Washington Territory at least. Mercer made...