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When Eugene McCarthy joined forces with Lester Maddox last week in an attempt to gain inclusion in the crucial TV debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter, his action was not entirely unexpected. McCarthy, 60, has, since his 1968 campaign, made the quixotic gesture his hallmark. Indeed, his challenge over the debates was an outgrowth of his most recent attempt to reach the White House-via an unlikely independent ticket...
...wife Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms...
There is, in Kansas City, a precedent of sorts for Detroit's effort. Some 20 years ago, Joyce Hall, founder and chairman of Hallmark Cards Inc., decided to invest in what he called "the revitalization of the inner core" of his city. What he referred to was the 85 acres of used-car lots, warehouses and other derelict buildings that flanked his company's headquarters. Slowly, he bought the land-the money came from Hallmark, which produces 9.5 million greeting cards a day-and in 1967 he and his son Donald hired Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes to replan...
Wilson's hallmark in this enterprise was not glowing political vision but sharp political acumen. It made him the winningest P.M. in British history, with four election victories (1964, 1966 and two in 1974) against one defeat (to the Tories' Edward Heath in 1970). Wilson himself conceded: "I am not doctrinaire, I just want to get on with...
Some older styles still fit Americans to a T. They include shirts decorated with iron-on glitter, advertising slogans (I'M BULLISH ON SCHLITZ MALT LIQUOR) and the snappy one-liners that have long been a hallmark of the T shirt genre. Among the latter is a classic created by Wisconsin Designer Verne Holoubek: HARD TIMES. STARRING YOU AND ME. COMING SOON...