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Activities like these sometimes draw the scorn of those who dwell on the flaws of American society. But these civic efforts are the grace notes of any community...
Kansas City turned itself inside out to prove that it is a big-time place with small-town friendliness. Giving a party became a civic obligation. Hospitality was evangelical in its fervor. Kansas Citians greeted arriving Republicans, journalists and celebrities with simulated parchment scrolls entitling "the Bearer to see Missouri in all its Grandeur" and signed by Republican Governor Christopher Bond. To the 4,518 delegates and alternates, merchants and town leaders contributed burlap tote bags stuffed with gifts and guidebooks and stamped with elephants encircled by large hearts (symbolizing, naturally, the nation's heartland...
...Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms. So were a number of Eastern sophisticates who were visibly impressed by the Price...
When Jesus Christ learned recently that another Nazarene had died, he went and asked the newcomer to Heaven: "How are things in Nazareth?" "They are changing," replied the Nazarene. "There are new political leaders and new civic programs, and the citizens are full of hope." "I can see that nothing has changed," sighed Jesus. "And besides, " continued the Nazarene, "they are cleaning up the Cactus Quarter." "So Nazareth really is changing!"said Jesus...
...which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood in 1961, only to endure some lean years: the leaner...