Word: boosterism
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Pick of the Quick. Angel of the Albright is a peppery Buffalo booster, Woolworth Heir and Banker Seymour H. Knox, who, back in the 1930s, captained his home-town East Aurora polo team in international matches. Putting up $100,000 in 1939 to launch the Contemporary Room, "Shorty" Knox, who had previously boasted little more than one lone Utrillo, was soon head over heels in love with modern art. In the last eleven years, Yaleman ('20) Knox has donated 75 paintings and sculptures, of which more than half are products of the current decade...
...auto salesman will try anything once-as long as it sells cars-and over the years he has explored every gimmick from tears to stripteasers. But last week in San Diego, the Walt Tufford Plymouth agency signed the sales booster to top them all: a professional hypnotist named Richard N. Mikesell...
...beaver booster from Maine has made the latest contribution to the American tradition of combining the mystic and the commercial. Inspired by a dream in which Mamie Eisenhower accepted a fur coat from him, his organization--the Beaver Fur Trappers Association--presented the first lady with $1800 worth of prize pelts. Mrs. Eisenhower paid $385 to have a wrap made, which the trappers figured would usher in a renaissance of beaver popularity...
...before Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
...near the activity of life." Adds Director Frank C. Selfridge of Evanston's James C. King Home: "They're not interested in the birds and the bees. They want to see the world go by." Doctors approve moving the old people downtown because it is a morale booster that staves off loneliness and boredom, makes the aged feel they still belong to society. Many of the homes allow the oldsters full freedom of action, without curfew. "We were really surprised when we noticed some of our people going out about 8:30 and staying out until 1," says...