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...been decades since Mrs. Esther Hunt Moore of Hickory, N.C., has been actively engaged in rearing her three children. Nonetheless, her devotion to the young has continued unabated through most of her 75 years. An elementary school teacher for 40 years, she was the first black woman to register to vote in her county. After her children had graduated from college, she went on to earn her master's degree from Columbia University at age 64 and to teach mentally retarded children. Last week the American Mothers Committee named Mrs. Moore, a widow, Mother of the Year...
...Esther Peterson "appeals" to the consumer to pass up high-priced meats in favor of fish, fowl and eggs. I have been boycotting high-priced items for months now, not by choice, but out of necessity-and to no avail. The choice of foods I can afford is becoming increasingly limited. Maybe by the time I start comparing dog-food labels for nutritional content, the Government will have started really doing something about this deplorable situation...
...marriages-to Showgirl Isabel Washington and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott-reflected Powell's affinity for glamour. His conquests were many. Some, like Yvette and his former-beauty-queen secretary, Corinne Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying out of New York except on Sundays, when legal papers are not served...
...sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake to the TV screens and ask, as an ultimate post-Lenten sacrifice, for his fellow Americans simply to stop eating. In an ad for a Washington supermarket chain, Esther Peterson, who had been Lyndon Johnson's consumer affairs adviser, appealed to consumers to buy fish, fowl, eggs and other substitutes for costly meat...
THAT must have been nice, you know I was just thinking. I tell you when Charles and I first came here we didn't know a soul, before you and Harry moved down. Esther, and now we have so many friends. We know everyone in the building, and all those nice people in the Fiddler Crab, and a lot of those people over in the Senior Club--we know people all over town, really. Isn't that right, Charles, (I wish he wouldn't smoke so much. Charles...he said he'd stop when we came, if he keeps...