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Midway between then & now were White Rock's angelic nymph, Kellogg's Corn Flakes' calico-clad "sweetheart of the corn" and Baker Chocolate's "La Belle Chocolatiere." .Today's climax is typified by Aircooled Motors Corp.'s (Franklin engines) current advertising illustration of a lithe and leggy air-cooled lovely clad in little or nothing and saying bithely into a phone: "Pick me up at eight . . . and we'll fly to the club...
Officials of the University Information Office have been searching for 24 hours to find out about calico cats, in order to answer the query of the Maine woman who owns a pair. Although they discovered that the multicolored felines are considered good luck charms, and presage riches in China, no details about the animals could be found...
...have two calico cats," a lady from Lincolnville Beach, Me., writes. "They are white, yellow, black, and blue (or gray) as you might say. I have been told that the male is very rare and valuable. Can you tell me if this...
Usually able to answer all such questions, the information office's consultant in Widener said he knew of no such animal, except for "the one in Eugene Field's poem about the "Gingham Dog and the Calico...
...black Martha Mickens who first welcomed Author Rawlings to Cross Creek. "She came walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this place...