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Died. Charles Berry, 69, All-America football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry...
...mess is critical. "It is the biggest unsolved problem in retailing," says Cyril Magnin, chairman of San Francisco-based Joseph Magnin, adding, "I spend more time on the quality problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem "the biggest, fattest nuisance in the world; it gets me ready to explode." Says Helen Galland, vice president and general merchandise manager of Bonwit Teller in Manhattan: "We could run a button business on the side. The manufacturers have not yet perfected a method of keeping...
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...times change, and Evanston city officials have wearied of watching local folk flock to bars, restaurants and hotels just outside the city limits. A proposal ending prohibition is expected to pass the city council this month. To stimulate business in downtown Evanston, the city is letting demon rum flow into the W.C.T.U.'s preserve...
...heiresses of Carry Nation are not giving up easily, however. National W.C.T.U. President Mrs. Ruth Tooze warned: "The shadow of the saloon is lengthening over Evanston. Soon our streets will be filled with drunks. Mrs. Mary Alice Nelson, a sympathetic teetotaler, pleaded: "Preserve our city, our beautiful city, so my grandchildren will have a clean place to live." The W.C.T.U. has organized groups to pray for a dry Evanston...