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...helped persuade two chains to cut some prices by as much as 20%. Emboldened by their success, similar groups popped up in such cities as Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Detroit, Daytona Beach, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque and parts of Los Angeles County. A group of Denver women, led by Mrs. Ruth Kane of suburban Aurora, set up a National Housewives for Lower Food Prices, filed incorporation papers with the Colorado secretary of state. Actually, says Campbell Soup President W. B. Murphy, chairman of the prestigious Business Council, "the housewife is wrong. The food store is a handy goat." Supermarkets average a mere...
Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
...appealed to Governor Otto Kerner for National Guard troops to preserve order during the march. Said Cicero Town Attorney Christy Berkos: "The probability of danger and destruction to human life and property now has become a certainty." Kerner agreed, and prepared to call out the Guard. Major General Francis Kane, Guard commander, grimly made plans to arm his men with tear gas, bayonets and machine guns. "If anyone fires on my men," warned Kane, "my men will fire back, and the same goes if anyone fires at the marchers...
...dismissed Tues day's violence as a "juvenile incident," requested mobilization of the National Guard. On Friday, 4,000 men of the 33rd Infantry Division, armed with bayoneted rifles, machine guns and tear gas, took up positions in and around the riot zone. Major General Francis Kane sent 1,600 of his troopers through the Roosevelt Road area in a show of force. "If anyone shoots at my men," he warned, "my orders are to shoot back - shoot to kill." The rioting ran down to a few isolated outbursts...
...list includes such films as Beat the Devil, Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Duck Soup...