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Michigan's Governor George Romney observed recently that when it came to his putative candidacy for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, he felt like a newly established grocer suffering from a surplus of customers and a dearth of stock. While still postponing the formal opening last week, Romney nonetheless had clearly set up shop...
...were the papers' political differences the basic reason for the divorce -although the Times reflects the liberal attitudes of its Northern cousin, the New York Times, while the Free Press speaks for its conservative, segregationist publisher, Grocer Roy McDonald, 64. What disturbed McDonald was that he thought the Times spent far too much space and money on national and international coverage, while he concentrated on local events in a lighter fashion at less expense. Why should he pay for half the cost of printing presidential speeches verbatim? Replied a Timesman: "We paid for half the Cub Scout pictures...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled...
Died. Arthur Bernard Langlie, 65, Republican politician and publisher, son of a grocer, who rose on the wave of a Seattle reform movement to become the only man to serve three terms as Governor of Washington State (1941-45, 1949-57), bringing parsimony and Presbyterian morality to the office, but lost a 1956 Senate race, retired from politics to a job as president and later chairman of McCall Corp.; of leukemia and a heart ailment; in Seattle...
...grocer's bag of whims and interests, one of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's most earnest pursuits is graphology. Few persons, from financiers to fiancees, ever get close to Hartford without passing his handwriting test. Most of all, he likes perfectionists -people who make their d's Greek-style, from the bottom up after an initial downstroke. Yet as a businessman, Hartford sometimes works from the top down. He has emptied treasure into such disparate ventures as Show magazine (sold for a $7,000,000 loss), Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (annual deficit...