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Nose to Nose. Quickly, the Fall River Plan spread to nearby towns. Teenagers, backed by parents, staged pop concerts, cake sales, manned sidewalk booths, highway "toll stations,'' ran a dress shop. Fradkin meanwhile pushed his plan by letter, phone, or nose-to-nose persuasion, got more inquiries than he could handle. Last year he organized the communities with do-it-yourself scholarship plans into the loosely knit Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., charged a $50 chartering fee to pay for a rented typewriter, phone bills, and the salary of the sole employee of the foundation...
Softballs were lofting, basketballs thumping, swimming pools sloshing. People ranging from kids to grandmas were learning ballroom dancing, bird watching, guitar playing, oil painting, cake baking and bridge at North America's 2,500 YMCAs and YWCAs. Yet, according to the big-circulation (913,331) Roman Catholic weekly. Our Sunday Visitor, some 20% of the thumpers, sloshers. bakers and players should not have been there. They are Catholics, and. said the paper, the Young Men's (or Women's) Christian Association is no place for a Catholic...
...salesmen by placing all their arrangements in the hands of a "marriage coordinator," such as Mrs. Gertrude Doran, 54, of Los Angeles. This year Mrs. Doran ("I can do as many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording a secret until there...
...twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight. Some invitations to her birthday party had made her 24. Anna Maria, the waiflike Lili of the Broadway musical Carnival!, puffed out the candles on her two-tiered cake and announced determinedly: "I'm 25-a quarter of a century...
...merged four faltering companies to form General Mills, now world's largest miller, as President and Chairman from its birth until his retirement in 1947 made it a housewife's boon by marketing a pantryful of prepared foods (Wheaties) and baking materials (Betty Crocker cake mixes), later entered such diverse fields as industrial chemicals, precision instruments, high-altitude research balloons; of a heart disease; in Minneapolis...