Word: dan
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...fret and jeers. The crud, he said, is indigenous and ubiquitous; the fret results from the job's unavoidable frustrations; the jeers would come from visiting columnists, Congressmen and assorted other critics, all convinced that they know more than the man on the scene. Says CBS's Dan Rather: "It's the only story I've been on in my life where I get a hopeless feeling when I try to get on top of things. It's so many-faceted that nobody can really...
...Died. Dan Moody, 72, Governor of Texas from 1927 to 1931 who at 33, as a reform-minded state attorney general, defeated Incumbent Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, a housewife like Lurleen Wallace merely fronting for her husband, impeached Governor James Ferguson, after which Moody served two terms cleaning up the mess in the Statehouse and starting construction of Texas' top-rated highway system, then retired to a highly successful law practice; of heart disease; in Austin...
...years, such friendly letters have been mailed from Fremont, Mich., to mothers of U.S. infants. Signing them, with an eye to new business as well as to new citizens, is Mrs. Dan Gerber, "Mother of Five," longtime corporate mother-figure of the baby-food company organized by her husband 38 years ago. Today, with 65% of a highly competitive market, Gerber dominates the $300 million-a-year baby-food business; last week the company reported fiscal '66 sales of $195,218,397, only $1,196,425 higher than the year before...
Twice as Much. But the opportunity rate for Mrs. Dan Gerber to dash off such happy greetings is slipping. The Bureau of Natality of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports a consistent drop in the U.S. birth rate since 1958 (TIME, May 6); last year it sagged 7%, and the total of 3,800,000 was the smallest in 15 years. Understandably, Mrs. Gerber and her husband's industry are beginning to fret. The newest item on the fret list of the baby-food business is the growing popularity of "the pill." The baby-food people still...
...with the explanation that grandchildren are coming to visit. The baby-food firms understandably have been reluctant to try the hard sell in the delicate old folks' market. But it would be no great surprise if, one of these days, oldsters were to start getting letters from Mrs. Dan Gerber, grandmother...