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...came in the face of the biggest rush for cars in five years; used-car dealers were once again displaying new "used" autos at $500 and more above list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue...
Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
...Bedford: Charles S. Kelley III '36; 150 Hawthorne, New Bedford, Mass...
...David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School; Hubert C. Maguire, Jr., Belmont High School; John F. King, Concord High; John F. Pereira, Jr., New Bedford High; Maurice P. Billings, Jr., Spaulding Memorial School; Ralph L. Zani, North High School; Donald R. Whitehead, Quincy High; and Thomas H. York, Dedham High School...
Vice president for next year's sophomore class is Gracia Taketa of Washington, D.C., and Bertram Hall. Louise Provinse of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Barnard Hall will be class secretary; Judith Braverman of Bedford and Cabot Hall is treasurer, and council members include Carol Cummings of Cambridge and Briggs Hall and Sarah Pond of 51 Walker Street...