Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman (he is a member of 17 boards of directors), part-time lawyer, landlord (he has an interest in a Caracas, Venezuela apartment project), farmer and cattleman (he owns 5,000 acres in Missouri and Oklahoma), educator (he was president of Missouri Valley College at Marshall), civic leader and public speaker (some 200 speeches a year at fees ranging up from $1,000). Bartle is all over the place. Last week Kansas citizens bowed to the inescapable: they elected H. Roe Bartle mayor...
...reception for Mamie Eisenhower in Washington's Mayflower Hotel, a friend of Mamie's sister, Frances ("Mike") Moore, Mrs. Durries Crane, onetime ballerina with Chicago's Civic Opera, suddenly became aware of a horrifying coincidence: the First Lady wore a blue-and-green-print taffeta dress almost exactly like her own. In the reception line Mrs. Crane tried to conceal her own outfit with her mink cape, but Mamie spied the maneuver, gaily cried: "Don't hide it. I think it's pretty." Muttered blushing Ledova Crane: "It's not really the same...
...Annenberg's son Walter took over the Philadelphia Inquirer, became a Philadelphia civic leader and successful newspaper and magazine (TV Guide, Seventeen) publisher in his own right...
Flames Over the Highlands. ius last week began Billy Graham's "All Scotland Crusade." It was, as usual, well-organized. First there was a press conference, next a civic reception, where Glasgow's Lord Provost accompanied ermine-cloaked dignitaries in a round of gospel-hymn singing. That night Billy met 7,000 well-briefed stewards, counselors and choristers, waiting for his instructions. "I believe the flames that burned in Scotland centuries ago can burn again." he told them. "A spiritual awakening in Scotland will encourage the entire world at a very critical period...
...Eagle and its equipment were put up for sale. Schroth also has a 25-year lease for a brand-new building that the Eagle had expected to move into just before the strike started. (The building now occupied by the Eagle was bought to make way for a Brooklyn civic center.) Publisher Schroth said there was "no one in sight to buy the Eagle and bring it out again...