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...Denver Post survey disclosed that seven out of ten Coloradans favor war over retreat. Of 32 Atlantans questioned, only one admitted willingness to give up Berlin rather than fight. "Sure it's a dangerous world and nobody wants war," said a North Hollywood businesswoman. "But if we kick in our chips over Berlin, we might as well kick in the whole pot. The effort has to be made somewhere, risk or no risk, and it might as well be over Berlin." To show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give...
Caedmon releases, Businesswoman Mantell estimates, have reached an audience of 2,000,000-many of them "people who haven't picked up a book of poetry since they left school. If a person is not a serious student, there is something about the printed page which separates him from poetry; recorded works bridge the gap. This is pretty reassuring at a time when so many are flagellating themselves with the failure of American culture...
...ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with men and proclaimed herself a candidate for the presidency...
Died. Grace Reidy Comiskey, 62, blonde, baseball-wise widow of fleshy (400 lb.) J. Louis Comiskey. owner of the Chicago White Sox since his death in 1939; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Businesswoman Comiskey took over active control of the White Sox by breaking her husband's will, which named a trustee to run the club, became the American League's first woman president, later defeated her son Charles's efforts to win control...
Saund defeated Republican Jacqueline Cochran Odium, who was herself born in abject poverty. She rose to fame as an aviatress, and to wealth as the wife of Financier Floyd Odium and as a highly successful businesswoman (cosmetics). But during the flamboyant campaign, some voters decided that high-flying Jackie Cochran was trying to dazzle her way into public office. Others resented the fact that after years of aloofness she had become neighborly only during her campaign. "Saund," said one, "is at least one of us. Mrs. Odium...