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Other-directeds are spreading in numbers and influence. "They are more prominent in New York than in Boston, in Los Angeles than in Spokane, in Cincinnati than in Chillicothe." And there are, of course, more other-directeds among the young than...
Some communities, opposed to the Oklahoma City and Houston-type ordinances because they are concerned about the effects of scattershot censorship, have turned to a better method of control. In Cincinnati, for example, a citizens' committee of businessmen, educators, clergymen and parents rates every comic book published. In Canton, Ohio, a mayor's committee started "Operation Book Swap," in two days collected 12,000 horror comic books, which were exchanged at the rate of ten to one for hard-covered books, e.g., Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland...
Bargain Basement. In Cincinnati, Wedding Belles Inc. advertised in the American Israelite: "Just for you-we offer the largest selection of wedding gowns (and veils) in the Midwest. Gowns from $49.50 to $250! Bridesmaids...
...Caucauasu" was an Algonquian word meaning "elder" or "councilor." The Americans borrowed it and made it "caucus," meaning a party war council on the eve of battle. Last week, at Cincinnati, 125 Republican caucauasu caucused on the eve of battle. They called their meeting a "workshop," a term borrowed from universities, which had (quite unimaginatively) borrowed it from workshops. The chief Republican caucauasu at Cincinnati was Vice President Richard Nixon. "I do not come to you terribly optimistic or terribly pessimistic," said the Vice President to the Republican braves. "I think that this election is extremely close. We Republicans...
Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...