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...time Margaret Deibel got home to her children (Danny, 2½, Mary Louise, six months) two days later, her living room was jampacked with friends, lawyers, casual well-wishers and the local police chief. The chief had earlier lugged many mail sacks, the first wave of her coinucopia, to the jail for safekeeping. In the city hall basement last week Mrs. Deibel, with the help of a volunteer corps of accountants, Kiwanis, American Legion and Lions members, sat dazedly opening envelopes and untaping or unwrapping her mounting pile of coins. At last count, her take was some 130,000 contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Craziest Thing | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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