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...Chicago's shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year's bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel's scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...
...There's been a slow climb to a very comfortable plateau on which businessmen make money and wage-earners have plenty to spend. The climb is over. The national economy could take plenty of lumps and remain where it is." Thus Harry Stoll, president of Chicago's Mandel Brothers department store, last week summed up the mood of many businessmen. Despite the slump in auto sales, tight money and sagging farm income, the nation's economy was actually holding up fine. Industrial production steadied at 142, only two points off December's peak. But caution...
...Wilder sketch, starring Mimi Bowen, is a character study of a mother who is completely devoted to her family. Maeterlinck's play is a satire which features Steve Mandel as Achilles. Gogol's "Gambler," oddly enough, is about a tale spun by a master card shark...
...early 1950, the American Friends Service Committee launched a new "job-opportunities program" in Chicago, headed by Thomas Colgan, whose first step was to talk hiring practices with Field's the bellwether of State Street's big four (the other three-Mandel Brothers, Inc., The Fair, and Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.-also hired no Negroes). Field's would not budge, though, ironically, Colgan's program had financial backing from Marshall Field Jr., grandson of the store's founder and president of the Chicago Sun-Times. Undaunted, Colgan worked quietly on the other stores. In July...