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...diversity issues, which they felt were lacking from Reed's library. Heshiki even dropped the English name her parents had given her?May?in favor of her middle name, which is Japanese for bright. "I started using it because I wanted people meeting me to have to?for one minute???struggle or acknowledge I was a little different," says Heshiki, 31, now a lawyer in Portland...
...giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw up from excitement). Brand names are reeled off at a rate that seems like two per minute??plus commercials. The show is so successful that Wonderama gets 4,000 requests for admission each month. Presumably, a parent registers a child for Groton and Wonderama upon birth: a kid must wait four years to get on camera...
...tomorrow we attack this world's record of $44,000. We hope to sell $50,000. . . . It's really absurd to expect we can accomplish this task. It means selling 250 sets an hour for eight hours?four sets every minute???one set every 14 seconds. But, in spite of its absurdity, we're going to try. For that record is held in Los Angeles and what Los Angeles can do San Francisco can do better. At least that's the way our college boys and our football teams figure. They've done...
...McEwans' slow tango. Executed by Scots, it is a French adaptation from the Argentine and is, according to its creator, "a ver-r-r-a d-r-r-r-aggy dance." Because of its polyglot source it was named The International Tango. Lazy in tempo?32 bars to the minute???its slowness is compensated by twists and spins...
...Author is Humorist Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute???an exciting minute???she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...