Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
Acknowledging that he was the pleased catcher of the bride's bouquet, Chicago Grass Widower Adlai Stevenson, 56, a guest at the recent marriage of his distant cousin Helen Stevenson to New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (TIME, Jan. 28), seemed bleakly bereft of romance, though confessing that he would like to rate as eligible: "I hope the bouquet portends something, but I'm inured to disappointments...
Married. Robert Baumle Meyner, 48, Democratic governor of New Jersey since 1954; and Helen Day (Danie) Stevenson, 28, brunette third cousin (by marriage, on the maternal side; the name Stevenson is a coincidence) of Adlai Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, president of Oberlin College; in Oberlin, Ohio...
Another big complaint is that airlines and trucks use public airfields and highways for a relatively small fee, while railroads must pay steep taxes and maintenance for every mile of rail. New Jersey alone collects an average $9,511 annually for every mile of line; the 13 railroads serving New Jersey pay $1.67 in state taxes for every $1 worth of business they pick up in the state. On top of that, railroadmen point to other special taxes, e.g., a federal railroad retirement tax, figured at of employee earnings v. only 2% for other industries, plus...
...Glueck test. In 1952 a study of 100 delinquent Jewish boys in New York State indicated that 91 per cent of the group would have been identified earlier by the Glueck test. And it is indicated that the test applied to different races. Similar tests in Massachusetts and New Jersey also seemed to uphold the Social Prediction Table...