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...then. He is 88 today, and still as flinty and nosy and energetic as ever (though he had to give up tennis at 75). His gesture was characteristic of the man they call "Mr. Flint." His real name is Charles Stewart Mott. He is a multimillionaire philanthropist and the biggest benefactor that Flint-or most any other city-has ever seen...
...three-story house stands on the corner of Spring and Mott streets in Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox...
...dissertation on the background of the social gospel in the U.S. But he was not ordained because the Remonstrant Church, to which he belonged, stipulated that all ministers must be pastors, and young Yisser 't Hooft had been tapped by the late great U.S. ecumenist John R. Mott to become secretary of the Y.M.C.A. World's Alliance in Geneva. The Swiss city has been his headquarters ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then. He married fragile-looking Netherlander Henriette Philippine Jacoba Boddaert, with whom he has three...
...rights convention. With her blonde sausage curls bobbing in emphasis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read: "It is the duty of the women of the country to secure for themselves the sacred right of the elective franchise." The delegates were aghast at such a daring notion. "Why Lizzie," cried Quakeress Lucretia Mott, "thee will make us ridiculous...
...Mott's Super Markets, operating in Hartford, New Haven and two other towns, started selling half-gallon glass jugs at 43?, soon followed with a full gallon jug for 76?. Mott's milk sales rose 50% in three months, and other stores soon followed suit. Last week the victory was complete: Connecticut's three major chains, A. & P., First National, Stop & Shop, bowed to the demand for cheaper milk and started selling gallon jugs at 76? around the state. In the Hartford area alone, the saving for consumers amounts to some $40,000 daily. Says Consumers Association...