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There is probably no more efficient fund-raising device in the U.S. than a clear-eyed, neatly uniformed Boy Scout who is patriotically seeking adult help in doing his daily good turn. Last week, as a result of a campaign by hundreds of Scouts, hollow, eight-foot copper reproductions of the Statue of Liberty- guaranteed to turn green like the original, except along their soldered joints-were sprouting in the nation's parks...
Whitaker got Friedley, Voshardt Co., a Chicago manufacturer of ornamental metal ceilings, to turn out a copy made of 42 soldered copper sections. The firm agreed to sell the copies for $300 apiece, and, at Whitaker's suggestion, Boy Scouts the country over enthusiastically began collecting funds, buying statues and putting them up. Sixty-four statues were already gleaming in the sun by the time the National Sculpture Society began emitting bleats of distress last week...
...trouble turned out to be sinewy, easy-smiling J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, the first Republican governor to sit in the copper-domed Utah capitol in 24 years. The budget man called on Governor Lee, told him of Washington's concern. Says the governor: "I asked him how old he was. He said he was 31. So I said to him, 'Young man, it's too bad you never lived in a free country.' He got a little red-faced and said 'I do live in a free country.' So I said 'Well...
...Ball. In his talks with the President, the tactful González never asked for a loan. But he asked the President's moral support for the bill now in Congress to postpone for two more years the imposition of a 2?-a-lb. import tax on foreign copper. He also invited President Truman to visit Chile next November when the country opens its $88 million Concepción steel plant, built with...
...boys lay in state in true gangster tradition. Undertaker Pete Lapetina supplied two solid copper 900-lb. caskets that cost $1,500 apiece. The crowd that came to see the mortal remains of Kansas City's murdered Northside boss, Charley Binaggio, and his gun-toting henchman, Charles Gargotta, was bigger than the funeral home's large "chapel" could accommodate. Each body was laid to rest with a Requiem Mass...