Word: lancasterism
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DIED. WALTER DIEMER, 93, creator of a chewy, rubbery substance better known as bubble gum; in Lancaster, Pa. An accountant for the gummaker Fleer Corp. in the 1920s, Diemer tinkered with gum recipes during his spare time. Bubble gum--later marketed as Dubble Bubble--was an experimental mistake, but local...
When Clinton took office, the Democratic Party already had a centrist wing, and it looked like Martin Lancaster, Congressman from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lancaster spent his childhood on a tobacco farm and his adulthood in the naval reserves. In so doing, he embodied the two economic pillars...
Eastern Carolina had one more export: conservative Democrats. It had been sending them to Washington since the Blue defeated the Gray, and Lancaster was no different. He backed the death penalty; he supported Star Wars; he voted to ban federal money for obscene art. But Lancaster also supported Clinton's...
In addition, a small but growing number of liberal-arts colleges have made test scores optional, in part because they want to draw minorities. Schools such as Connecticut College in New London; Muhlenberg in Allentown, Pa.; and Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Pa., have followed the lead of Bates College in...
That same year, a larger store--the first traditional Woolworth--opened for business in Lancaster, Pa.