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Last week, after 121 years, Samuel Smith was still contributing his mite, but this time to another sort of cause. Three months ago Brooklyn Lawyer Arthur Levitt, a member of New York City's school board, proposed that New York schoolchildren sing parts of Smith's anthem at the start of each day. Up until then the mention of God had been practically taboo in the public schools, and Levitt had offered his idea as a substitute for a regular morning prayer, to which secular groups strenuously objected. Last week after months of worried debate, the school board...
...free enterprisers making the building miracle come to pass are the famed team who gave their name to suburban Levittown on New York's Long Island: brothers William and Alfred and father Abraham Levitt. Says HOUSE & HOME...
...Manhattan, where reaction was particularly strong, the school board decided to dump the whole plan. Last week Arthur Levitt, school board member, suggested another idea: Why not substitute the prayerful hymn America...
Mass Producers. Private industry jumped to do the enormous job. In seven years, 6,400,000 housing units went up, equaling the total of the preceding 18 years. Mass-production builders like Long Island's William Levitt, Miami's Tom Coogan and Los Angeles' Fritz Burns raised whole new cities by working out new techniques, standardizing' doors and windows and dozens of other parts, and putting them together on the site...
Divorced. By Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman, 43, trumpet-voiced musicomedienne: Robert Daniels Levitt, 42, Hearst promotion man, her second husband; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico (see THE HEMISPHERE...