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Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
Said the new member in a coy acknowledgment to Chairman Coy: "You are the first commissioner who has ever wanted a woman...
Publisher Crum was still coy about his backers. Marshall Field, he explained, will keep only a 25% interest in the Star. Together, Crum & Barnes will hold 33 ⅓%. In the next fortnight they will select, from offers of $3,000,000 in working capital, the $1,500,000 they want...
...that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic old Natural History Museum into another Bonwit Teller branch. In Cleveland, he has leased a downtown building (Lindner Coy's) for a new store next year, bought a site in mushrooming Houston to build another $1.3 million store. In between times, he leased three small Manhattan stores and opened his new subsidiary: Anson-Jones Co. It sells only women's dresses, at one price...