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...once a department store model in Grand Island, is now the best-dressed and most-talked-about first lady in the state's history. She has a well-trained soprano voice, has sung (Indian Love Call, Kiss Me Again, I'm Falling in Love with Someone) at civic, social and political gatherings all over the state. Married since 1936, she met Frank Morrison on a blind date at a rodeo; a bit before, she had been tipped off by a fortuneteller who told her that "a tall, dark and handsome gentleman will marry you; there will be three...
Several Boston and Roxbury civic groups, especially CORE, are taking a continuing interest in the case. Alan Gartner, chairman of Boston CORE, said yesterday that money is still being solicited for a "Jackie Washington Fund" to pay expenses. So far, $300 has been raised. Washington sang at a Brandeis benefit for the fund last night...
Several sources indicated surprise that there were only four bids entered; according to Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs. "We expected a great many more bids." Whitlock said he had known of at least eight prospective bidders...
...President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust of the Mormons -as the ''peculiar people" call their lead-is the living oracle of God to whom Lord reveals whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus...
...Paso, Texas, there was stiff competition between households and neighborhoods for the most striking luminario display (a Mexican custom in which lighted candles are set in sand-weighted paper bags), and in San Antonio rehearsals were on for the traditional Los Pastores miracle play. The Dallas Civic Opera, Chorus, and Symphony Orchestra got ready for their massive performance of the entire Messiah. And everywhere, newspapers were taking advantage of their readers' spirit of the season, whether springing from generosity or guilt, to help their pet charities...